Randy Richards originally hails from Chalmette, Louisiana, the actual location of the "Battle of New Orleans". He currently lives in the South, where he runs a photography business and writes professionally.

Randy Richards has been playing Dungeons & Dragons since the late 70s, but started in earnest in the early 80s. "In the 1980s," Richards says, "we had the Basic D&D boxed game in our Gifted & Talented class, and I used to play a Cajun halfling. The other kids loved it, especially the accent."In 1994 after working in Tennessee, Richards was transferred to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and started a family. "Thats when I first got published. I wrote ‘Dark Magic in New Orleans’ for DUNGEON MAGAZINE.” In the late 90s, Richards hosted a series of GenCon events, one of which included the co-creators of D&D, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and other big names including Frank Mentzer, Lisa Stevens (later CEO of Paizo Publishing), and Anne Brown.Richards is also the former editor of the Greyhawk Grimoire, an online publication devoted to the World of Greyhawk campaign setting; and is the founder of the World of Greyhawk Fan Club, which once claimed to be "the largest Greyhawk fan organization in the world." He has written numerous online fan-fiction adventures set in the Greyhawk campaign setting, including "Slerotin's Tunnel" and "Suel Imperium: Age of Glory."

Richards was elected to the board of directors of the Science & Engineering Education Foundation in 2006. He also published DREADMIRE, a swamp source book for D20/D&D games. In 2008, he became an officer of Star One Delta, a local sci-fi/science organization.

In 2013, Richards was commissioned to write a new Alternate-History-Fantasy series called, The League of Founding Fathers. His first book in the series, PAUL REVERE: THE ZOMBIES ARE COMING, is due out later in the year.