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Dungeons & Dragons game designers

  • Tom MoldvayThomas Steven Moldvay was born on the 5th of November 1948 in Ohio. He attended Kent State University during the early 1970s while writing for a science…
  • Ed StarkEd Stark began his career at West End Games, a company that produced role-playing games during the late twentieth century.
  • Harold Johnson (game designer)Harold Johnson was born in Evanston, Illinois. He attended Northwestern University and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology during 1977.
  • F. Wesley SchneiderF. Wesley Schneider entered the roleplaying game industry in 2003 as an assistant editor for Dragon magazine at Paizo Inc.
  • Jeremy CrawfordIn 2005, Jeremy Crawford co-designed the role-playing game Blue Rose for Green Ronin Publishing. He worked alongside Steve Kenson to create a system that won…
  • Steve Winter (game designer)Steve Winter was born in Dubuque, Iowa on the 8th of December 1957. He attended Catholic school for both grade school and high school before transferring to…
  • Chris Perkins (game designer)On the 1st of May 1988, a writer named Christopher Zarathustra published an adventure called Wards of Witching Ways. This story appeared in Dungeon magazine…
  • David Noonan (game designer)David Noonan entered the world of fantasy role-playing games in 1998. He joined Wizards of the Coast to help build a new version of Dungeons and Dragons.
  • Peter AdkisonPeter Adkison sat in a room filled with the smell of old paper and cardboard in 1978. He played strategy games as a child, but nothing prepared him for…
  • Mike MearlsMichael Mearls walked the green lawns of Dartmouth College as a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. While there, he penned a satiric letter to the campus…
  • Gary GygaxErnest Gary Gygax was born on the 27th of July 1938 in Chicago, Illinois. His father Ernst worked as a violinist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra while his…
  • Aaron AllstonAaron Dale Allston arrived in Corsicana, Texas on the 8th of December 1960. His parents were Tom Dale Allston and Rose Binford Boehm.
  • Dave ArnesonIn 1960, a young Dave Arneson received the board wargame Gettysburg from his parents. This Avalon Hill product sparked a lifelong obsession with miniature…
  • David Cook (game designer)David Cook was born in East Lansing, Michigan. He grew up on a farm in Iowa where his father worked as both a farmer and a college professor.
  • Frank MentzerJacob Franklin Mentzer III stood in the White House gardens on a spring day in 1972. He played his guitar for inner-city children while Pat Nixon watched…
  • James Wyatt (game designer)James Wyatt grew up in Ithaca, New York. He attended Ithaca High School and graduated in 1986. His childhood involved playing role-playing games since the…
  • John Eric HolmesJohn Eric Holmes stood on the frozen ground of Korea in 1952. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps at that time.