{{Short description|Role-playing game designer}} {{for|the microbiologist|Elizabeth McCoy (microbiologist)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = <!-- use common name/article title --> | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_place = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = writer and editor | notable_works = }} '''Elizabeth "Archangel Beth" McCoy''' is a writer and editor in the role-playing game industry at Steve Jackson Games.

==Career== She and her husband Walter Milliken wrote the award-winning supplement ''GURPS Illuminati University''. She was the line editor for the ''In Nomine'' role-playing game.<ref>(29 September 1997). "On the move: Tech briefs", ''Austin American-Statesman'', p. C2.</ref>

In a lawsuit that received national attention and led to the establishment of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, McCoy, Milliken and Steve Jackson successfully sued the United States Secret Service in 1993 for illegally seizing computers and electronic information.<ref>{{cite news |author=Hawkins, Lori |date=7 May 1994 |title=Austin game maker gets money over illegal seizure: Secret Service had violated Electronic Communications Privacy Act |newspaper=Austin American-Statesman |page=B1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Abernathy, Joe |date=4 May 1991 |title=Suit says rights abused in computer crackdown |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |page=29}}</ref>

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==External links== *{{cite web |url=http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=1131 |title=Elizabeth McCoy :: Pen & Paper RPG Database |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050225120303/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=1131 |archivedate=25 February 2005}}

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