Warren Spector

Warren Spector

male, 54 years old
Computer Game Designer, computer role-playing game, role-playing games, first person shooter, Video Game Designer, first-person shooter…role-playing game
Warren Spector is a veteran computer game designer. He is known for having worked to merge elements of role-playing games and first-person...
Greg Costikyan

Greg Costikyan

male
Video Game Designer, science fiction writer, board games, role-playing games, boardgames, Toon…Card games, Star Wars role-playing game, Manifesto Games, Role-playing game designer, computer games
Greg Costikyan, also known as Designer X, is an American game designer and science fiction writer. Costikyan's career spans nearly all extant...
John Wick

John Wick

male
Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Role-playing game designer, Orkworld, The Gaming Outpost, Wicked Dead Brewing Company, Pinnacle Entertaiment Group…Collectible Card Games, role-playing games, Role-playing
John Wick is a 20th and 21st century role-playing game designer best known for his creative contributions to the Alderac Entertainment Group...
Rona Jaffe

Rona Jaffe

female, deceased (2005)
cancer death, Radcliffe College alumni, rake, cosmopolitan magazine, cultural, satanism…role-playing games
Rona Jaffe (June 12, 1932 - December 30, 2005) was an American novelist. Born in New York, New York, she wrote her first and most known book, "The...

Diceman

male, deceased (1994)
AIDS-related death, hiv, From GLASGOW, mime artist, Grafton Street, role-playing games
The Diceman, real name Thom McGinty, was born in Glasgow but came to Ireland in 1976 to work as a model. The name "Diceman" came from a (now...
Shane Lacy Hensley

Shane Lacy Hensley

male
novelist, role-playing games, miniatures, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Video Game Designer, convention…Role-playing game designer
Shane Lacy Hensley is an author, game designer, and CEO of Pinnacle Entertainment Group and is currently a resident of Los Gatos, California. He...
Don Daglow

Don Daglow

male, 56 years old
Video Game Designer, MMORPG, Stormfront Studios, role-playing games, simulation games, Game Producer…12 because there weren't games yet, always able to write games
Don Daglow (born circa 1953) is an American computer game and video game designer, programmer and producer. He is best known for designing a series...
Kazushige Nojima

Kazushige Nojima

male
Hymn of the Fayth, final fantasy vii advent child, Final Fantasy XIII, final fantasy, Kingdom Hearts series, suteki da ne…role-playing games, Video Games
is a Japanese game scenario writer and is the founder of Stellavista Ltd.. He is best known for writing parts of Square Enix's "Final Fantasy"...

Frank Mentzer

male, 59 years old
from Wisconsin, RPGA, Editions of Dungeons & Dragons, Gencon, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Role-Playing Games Association…role-playing games, role-playing game, Role-playing game designer
Jacob Franklin Mentzer III (born in 1950), is an American fantasy author and game designer best known for his work on early materials for the...
Ted Woolsey

Ted Woolsey

male
Secret of Evermore, Seiken Densetsu 2, Breath of Fire, Final Fantasy II, Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Star, computer role-playing game…role-playing games
Ted Woolsey is an American game translator and producer who had the primary role in the U.S. production of Squaresoft's role-playing games during...