Allen Varney

Allen Varney (born 1958) is an American writer and game designer. Varney has produced numerous books, role-playing game supplements, technical manuals, articles, reviews, columns, and stories, as well as the fantasy novel Cast of Fate (TSR, 1996)....

Gareth Hanrahan

Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan is an Irish game designer and novelist who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Adam Bucceri

Artist, animator and self publisher of role playing games.

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Lenard Lakofka

Lenard "Len" Lakofka (1944 - 2020) was an American writer of material for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Although never a formal TSR staff member, the company that published Dungeons & Dragons, he was an influential voic...

The RPGPundit

TheRPGPundit, aka Kasimir Urbanski is the nom de plume and online identity of an Uruguay based role playing game design and writer.

He writes about cultural libertarianism on everyjoe.com. Helped author the new D&D as the RPGPundit &am...

Richard Baker

Richard Baker (full name L. Richard Baker III) is an American author and a game designer who has worked on many Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings.

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Andy Collins

Andy Collins is a game designer whose writing credits include numerous books for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

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Bill Slavicsek

Bill Slavicsek is a game designer who served as the Director of Roleplaying Design and Development at Wizards of the Coast.

He previously worked for West End Games and TSR, Inc., and designed products for Dungeons & Dragons, Star Wars,...

Rob Heinsoo

Rob Heinsoo (born 1964) is an American tabletop game designer. He  was the lead designer on 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons, and is co-designed the 13th Age roleplaying game with Jonathan Tweet.

He has also designed and contributed to r...

Kenneth Hite

Kenneth Hite (born September 15, 1965) is a writer and role-playing game designer, known for his H P Lovecraft inspired game Trail of Cthulhu.

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James Ward

James M. Ward (born May 23, 1951), is an American game designer and fantasy author. He is most well-known for his game development and writing work for TSR, Inc., where he worked for more than 20 years.

The D&D archmage character Dr...

Monte Cook

Monte Cook is an American professional table-top role-playing game designer and writer, best known for his work on Dungeons & Dragons. 

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Skip Williams

Ralph Williams, almost always referred to as Skip Williams, is an American game designer.

He is married to Penny Williams, who is also involved with the games industry. He is best known as co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition a...

Greg Costikyan

Greg Costikyan is an American game designer and science fiction writer.

Costikyan's career spans nearly all extant genres of gaming, including hex-based wargames, role-playing games, boardgames, card games, computer games, online games and...

Mark Rein·Hagen

Mark Rein·Hagen (often written Rein-Hagen) is a role-playing, card, video and board game designer. Mark Rein·Hagen is best known as the creator of Vampire: The Masquerade and its associated World of Darkness games.

Rein·Hagen is also o...

Aaron Allston

Aaron Dale Allston (December 8, 1960 – February 27, 2014) was an American game designer and author of science fiction books, including Star Wars novels.

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Frank Mentzer

Jacob Franklin "Frank" Mentzer III (born in 1950), is an American fantasy author and game designer best known for his work on early materials for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game.

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Sandy Petersen

Carl Sanford Joslyn Petersen (born September 16, 1955) is an American game designer, best known as the primary designer of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.

Petersen was also the Executive Producer for the movie The Whisperer i...

Greg Stafford

Francis Gregory Stafford (born February 9, 1948), usually known as Greg Stafford, is an American game designer, publisher and self-proclaimed shaman.

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Ken St. Andre

Kenneth Eugene St. Andre (born on April 28, 1947 in Ogden, Utah) is an American fantasy author and game designer, best known for his work with Tunnels & Trolls and Wasteland. He has been an active member of The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writ...

Steve Jackson

Steve Jackson (born c. 1953) is an American game designer and owner of Steve Jackson Games.

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Marc Miller

Marc Miller is an award-winning American wargame and role-playing game designer and original author of the Traveller role-playing game.

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John Eric Holmes

John Eric Holmes M.D. (February 16, 1930 – March 20, 2010) was an associate professor of neurology at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, an author and promoter of fantasy role-playing games, a noted fan and enthusiast of Edg...

Lynn Willis

Lynn Willis (died January 18, 2013) was a wargame and role-playing game designer, best known for his work with Metagaming Concepts, Game Designers' Workshop, and Chaosium.

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Tom Moldvay

Tom Moldvay (Thomas Steven Moldvay, Nov. 5, 1948 – March 9, 2007) was a game designer and author most notable for his work on early materials for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).

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Robin D. Laws

Robin D. Laws (born October 14, 1964) is a writer and game designer who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of a number of novels and role-playing games as well as an anthologist.

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Jonathan Tweet

Jonathan Tweet is a game designer who has been involved in the development of the role-playing games Ars Magica, Everway, Over the Edge, Talislanta, the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons and 13th Age, as well as the Collectible Miniatures Ga...

John Tynes

John Tynes (born 1971) is a writer best known for his work on role-playing games such as Unknown Armies, Delta Green, Puppetland, and for his company Tynes Cowan Corporation. Under its imprint Pagan Publishing, Tynes Cowan Corp. produces third-par...

Greg Stolze

Greg Stolze (born 1970) is an American novelist and writer, whose work has mainly focused on properties derived from role-playing games.

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Chris Pramas

Chris Pramas is an award-winning American game designer and writer, as well as a founder of Green Ronin Publishing. He is best known as the designer of the Dragon Age RPG, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (second edition), and Freeport: The City of Adve...

Steve Kenson

Steve Kenson (born June 16, 1969) is a writer and designer of fantasy role-playing games (RPGs) and related fiction.

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Dave Arneson

David Lance "Dave" Arneson (October 1, 1947 – April 7, 2009) was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s.

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Gary Gygax

Ernest Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008)was an American writer and game designer best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson. Gygax has been described as the father of D&a...