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designers who wrote fantasy
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William King
William King (born 1959)

role-playing game designer

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Troy Denning
Troy Denning (born 1958)

role-playing game designer

  • Beloit College

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THE VEILED DRAGON
Death of the Dragon
Giant Among Us
The sorcerer
The siege
The summoning
Waterdeep
The parched sea
Crucible
The sentinel
The Giant Among Us
The Oath of Stonekeep
Pages of pain
Dragonwall
Star Wars - Legacy of the Force - Tempest
Star Wars - The New Jedi Order - Star by Star
Star Wars - Legacy of the Force - Invincible
Star Wars - Legacy of the Force - Inferno
Star Wars - Crucible
Star Wars - Fate of the Jedi - Apocalypse
Game On! (Disney's Kim Possible
Star Wars - Tatooine Ghost
Star Wars - Fate of the Jedi - Abyss
Star Wars - Dark Nest - The Swarm War
Star Wars - Dark Nest - The Unseen Queen
Star Wars - Fate of the Jedi - Vortex
The Ogre's Pact
HALO: Fractures: Extraordinary Tales from the Halo Canon (18)
The Cerulean Storm (Dark Sun)
Titan of Twilight
Star Wars - Dark Nest - The Joiner King
Star Wars - A Forest Apart
The Titans of Twilight (The Twilight Giants)
The amber enchantress
Halo
Star Wars - The New Jedi Order - Recovery
The obsidian oracle
Beyond the high road
The Verdant Passage (Dark Sun World)
The crimson legion
Halo
Star by Star
Galaxy Guide 4
Invocacin
Beyond the High Road
Halo: Oblivion
Halo: Silent Storm: A Master Chief Story (24)
Halo
The cerulean storm
Return Of The Archwizards
Halo : Shadows of Reach
Faces of Deception (Forgotten Realms: Lost Empires, Book 2))
The verdant passage
Pages of pain
The Parched Sea
Combat Command
The Crimson Legion (Dark Sun World)
The Obsidian oracle
Hardware Handbook
The verdant passage
Beneath Two Suns
Le silence des innocents
Freedom
The Obsidian Oracle (Dark Sun Prism Pentad book 4)
Storm Riders (AD&D Fantasy Roleplaying, : Forgotten Realms Adventure FRA1)
Dragonwall
Tatooine Ghost
Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Volume 2
Invincible
THE OGRE'S PACT (Forgotten Realms)
Pages of Pain (Planescape)
Star Wars
El Hechicero nº 3
Apocalypse
Star by Star : Star Wars
Tempest
El Hechicero nº 3
Le cri des justes
Le prisme. 3, L'enchanteresse d'ambre
Star Wars, Nid Obscur, Tome 1
Star Wars : Dark Nest II
Dark sun Boxed Set
Joiner King
Dark Sun - Le Prisme. L'Oracle de l'obsidienne, tome 4
Le prisme. 2, La légion rouge
Anauroch (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
The cerulean storm
Zawoalowany smok
Cette beauté que la laideur cache
Divine Wind
La mer assoiffée
Le procès de Cyric le Fou
Le prisme. 5, L'orage céruléen
Halo : Silent Storm
Star Wars La prueba
El Zigurat de Kalak
Star Wars™ Wächter der Macht 3
Twilight Giants Trilogy #2
Twilight Giants Trilogy #1
In the world of Keith Laumer's Star colony
Halo : Oblivion
Star Wars : Dark Nest III
Star Wars™ Feuerprobe
Le prisme. 1, Le passage verdoyant
L'appel au meurtre
Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Volume 1
Star Wars : Fate of the Jedi
El asedio
Blood Charge (AD&D/Forgotten Realms/Horde Module FRA3)
Foul Play at Fool's Summit (Top Secret/S.I. Solo Operations Casebook)
Black Courser (AD&D 2nd Ed Fantasy Roleplaying, Forgotten Realms, FRA2)
NEO in the 25th Century (Buck Rogers RPG module XXVCA2)
The ogre's pact
Cosmos Cubed
Przeznaczenie Jedi
Shadow Stone 18cp Mixed
The obsidian oracle
El crisol
The amber enchantress
Dungeons and Dragons Game
Ragnarok and Roll
Ed Greenwood
Ed Greenwood (born 1959)

librarian, role-playing game designer

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Spellfire
Worlds of Their Own
Crown of Fire
Cormyr
Swords of Eveningstar
The City of Splendors
Hand of fire
Swords of Dragonfire (Forgotten Realms
The Best of the Realms
Elminster
Death of the Dragon
Dungeons & Dragons
The Vacant Throne
The sword never sleeps
Stormlight
All Shadows Fled
Elminster in hell
Arch Wizard
Dark Vengeance (Novel of Niflheim)
Dark Warrior Rising
Serpent Kingdoms
Elminster Must Die
The Iron Assassin
Elminster
Cloak of shadows - The shadows of the Avatar
We Three Dragons
Silver Marches
Dark vengeance
Silverfall
Power of Faerun
A dragon's ascension
Dark Lord
Falconfar
The Silent House
The Dragon's Doom (The Band of Four, Book 4)
Shadows of Doom
When The Villain Comes Home
Elminster ascending
Creature Codex
Silverfall: Stories of the Seven Sisters (Forgotten Realms: Stand-Alone Novel)
Arch Wizard
Tales from Stolki's Hall
The herald
Wizard's Mask
Lords of Darkness
Secrets of the Magister (AD&D Fantasy Roleplaying, Forgotten Realms)
Dragon's Doom
Death Masks
Children of the Rune
The Herald: The Sundering, Book VI
Dungeons & Dragons
Spellstorm
Game On!
Dark warrior rising
Dwarves Deep (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Accessory FR11)
Arch Wizard
Dark Lord
Gods, Memes and Monsters
Pathfinder Online
Pathfinder Module
A Dragon's Ascension
Elminster's Daughter
The kingless land
NORTHERN HORROR
Elminster in Hell
Elminster Enraged
Elminster's Daughter
Falconfar
Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate II
Guns of Alkenstar
The temptation of Elminster
The Annotated Elminster Collector's Edition (The Elminster Series)
Bury Elminster deep
Spellfire
Volo's Guide to Cormyr
A Dragon's Ascension (Band of Four)
Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide
Kobold Guide to Gamemastering
Halls of the High King
Champions of Aetaltis
Forgotten Realms
Cloak of Shadows
Cormyr
By Faerie Light, Vol. 1 & 2
We Three Dragons
Volo's Guide to Waterdeep
Seven Tales in Amber: Stories from the Chronicles of Amber Saga
Tantras
MERCENARIES, THE
Expedition to Undermountain
Elminster in Myth Drannor
Geanavue
Shadowdale
The Drow of the Underdark
The Seven Sisters
Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms
Lost Ships
Elsminster
El Trono Vacio/ The Vacant Throne (Solaris)
The Endless Stair
Ed Greenwoods Castlemourn
Los caballeros de Myth Drannor nº 03/03 La espada nunca duerme
Elminster la jeunesse d'un mage
Les ombres de l'apocalypse
The Awakened II
Volo's Guide to All Things Magical (AD&D/Forgotten Realms)
The Kingless Land (Band of Four, Vol. 1)
Loona, Port of Intrigue
La tentation d'Elminster
The Awakened Modern
Le manteau des ombres
אלמינסטר: דרכו של קוסם
Et les ombres s'enfuirent
Die Legende von Elminster 03. Die Versuchung
Waterdeep and the North (AD&D Fantasy Roleplaying, Forgotten Realms, FR1)
Jack Vance's The Excellent Prismatic Spray 4/5 Double Issue
La ciudad del esplendor
PRAYERS FROM THE FAITHFUL (Accessory)
emyr
Los caballeros de Myth Drannor nº 01/03 Espadas de la noche
The Code of the Harpers (AD&D Fantasy Roleplaying, Forgotten Realms)
The City of Ravens Bluff (AD&D Fantasy Roleplaying, Forgotten Realms Adventure) (Rpga Network Adventure)
La Damnation d'Elminster
Magefeu
Dark Lord
Volo's Guide to the North (AD&D/Forgotten Realms)
La fille d'Elminster
Espadas de Fuego de Dragón nº 2/3
Los caballeros de Myth Drannor nº 03/03 La espada nunca duerme
The Wizard of the Coast Sneak Preview
Five Shires
Arch Wizard
Bury Elminster Deep
Falconfar
A Players Guide to Castlemourn
Espadas de Fuego de Dragón nº 2/3
Les mercenaires t3
Waterdeep/Fre3, No 9249
Grimmer Tales
Elminster in Myth Drannor
Die Legende von Elminster 01. Der Zauberkuss. Ein Roman aus den Vergessenen Welten
Der Ring der Vier 04. Die Schattenpriester
Creatures from Fairy-Tales and Myth (story book) (PNH0900)
Heir Apparent: Digital Science Fiction Anthology (Digital Science Fiction Short Stories Series One) (Volume 4)
Die Legende von Elminster 05. Die Tochter des Magiers
Iron Assassin
The Screaming Codpiece
The Vacant Throne
Terra senza re
The temptation of Elminster
Art of War
Elminster-Myth Drannor''da-Unutulmus Diyarlar
Kralsiz Diyar-Dort Seruvenci Serisi 1
Die Legende von Elminster 04. Im Bann der Dämonen. Ein Roman aus den Vergessenen Welten
One Eyed King
Der Ring der Vier 03. Die verzauberte Schlange.
The Bard's Tale
All shadows fled
The Magister (AD&D/Forgotten Realms Module FR4)
The Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (AD&D Fantasy Roleplaying, 2books + 4maps + HexGrid)
All shadows fled
Haunted Halls of Eveningstar (AD&D 2nd Ed Fantasy Roleplaying, Forgotten Realms Module, FRQ1)
Die Legende von Elminster, Bd.2. Die Elfenstadt
Ruins of UnderMountain (AD&D 2nd Ed. Fantasy Roleplaying, Forgotten Realms)
Grants Pass
Castlemorn Players Guide (Ed Greenwoods Castlemorn)
Cloak of shadows
The Vacant Throne Lib/E
Volo's Guide to the Dalelands (AD&D/Forgotten Realms)
Histoires des sept soeurs
Il trono vacante
Falconfar
Death Masks
Champions of Aetaltis
Munchkin Book
Falconfar
Silverfall: Stories Of The Seven Sisters
First Contact: Digital Science Fiction Anthology (Digital Science Fiction Short Stories Series One) (Volume 1)
The Dragon's Doom
The sword never sleeps
Elminster'in Cezbedilisi
Words of Unbinding: A Stormtalons Novel (Volume 1)
Estuche Elminster El Mago
Shadows of Doom: Forgotten Realms: The Shadow of the Avatar, Book 1: The Shadow of the Avatar, Book I
Elminster En Myth Drannor
Trudi Canavan
Trudi Canavan (born 1969)

graphic designer

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Voice of the Gods (Age of the Five Trilogy, Book 3)
The High Lord
The magician's apprentice
Last of the Wilds
The Magicians' Guild
Von Fuchsgeistern und Wunderlampen
Epic
The Novice
Priestess of the White (Age of the Five Trilogy, Book 1)
Thief's magic
Priestess Of The White
The Ambassador's Mission
The Ambassadors Mission Traitor Spy Trilogy
Voice of the Gods
The Traitor Queen
Priestess of the White
Last of the wilds
Angel of Storms
The rogue
Successor's promise
Traitor Queen
High Lord
Voice of the Gods
Priestess of the White
Last of the Wilds
Traitor Queen
Traitor Queen Bk. 3
Time Trips
Successor's Promise (Millennium's Rule)
Ostatnia z dzikich
La Guilde des magiciens
Maker's Curse
Fearsome Journeys (The Chronicles of The Black Company)
Sonea 02
La guilde des magiciens -La trilogie du magicien noir T1
Les Chroniques du magicien noir, T1
El gremio de los magos
Thief's Magic: Book 1 of Millennium's Rule
Die Magie der tausend Welten - Die Begabte
Priester
Voice of the Gods
Kapłanka w bieli
Doctor Who
La promesa del Sucesor
Szepty Dzieci Mgły
Trylogia Czarnego Maga. Ksiega 3. Wielki Mistrz
Das Zeitalter der Fünf 02. Magier
Les Chroniques du magicien noir, T3
The King Must Fall
La Trilogie du magicien noir TPréquelle L'Apprentie du magicien
Priester
Misja ambasadora
Les Chroniques du magicien noir, Tome 1
El ángel de las tormentas
Klątwa kreatorów
De opperheer
La maga
La hechicera indómita
La scuola dei maghi
La reina traidora
20 ans de légendes
El Ángel de las Tormentas
Die Gilde der Schwarzen Magier - Die Rebellin
La Trilogie du magicien noir, T2
La Loi du millénaire, T2
Pakiet. Trylogia Czarnego Maga. Gildia Magów / Nowicjuszka / Wielki Mistrz
Misja ambasadora
La maga
El gran lord
La renegada
La renegada
Głos bogów
Meisterin, Die
De verrader (Sonea) (Dutch Edition)
Magiër
La misión del embajador
Magier
La Trilogie du magicien noir, T1
La voz de los dioses
Obietnica następcy. Prawo Millenium
La Trilogie du magicien noir, tome 3
Sonea 3
The King Must Fall
Zlodziejska magia
De magiërsleerling
Trudi Canavan Header Whsmith
The Black Magician Trilogy Omnibus (Black Magician Trilogy)
Rogue
La sacerdotisa blanca
Rebellin, Die
Sonea - Die Hüterin
Godin
Successor's Promise: The thrilling fantasy adventure (Book 3 of Millennium's Rule)
Kara Büyücü Üçlemesi
Magia robada
Successor's Promise
La corporazione dei maghi
La guilde des magiciens
La misión del embajador
Wielki Mistrz. Ksiega druga Trylogii Czarnego Maga
Cirak
High Lord, The
Złodziejska magia
Yüksek Büyücü; Kara Büyücü Üclemesi - Ücüncü Kitap
Büyücü Loncasi
La Mission de l'ambassadeur
Priester (Het Tijdperk van de Vijf, #1)
Angel of Storms
La Aprendiz
Successor's Promise (Millennium's Rule Trilogy)
Die Magie der tausend Welten - Der Wanderer
La Voz de los Dioses
El Gran Lord
La reina traidora
Magia robada
De rebel (Sonea) (Dutch Edition)
L'apprendista del mago
El gremio de los magos
Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak (1928-2012)

graphic designer, cartoonist, illustrator, artist, painter, director

  • Art Students League of New York

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Where the Wild Things Are
In the Night Kitchen
The big green book
Outside over there
Maurice Sendak
The Bee-Man of Orn
Max
Bernard
Moishe
Tsippi
Chicken Soup with Rice
Alligators all around
Higglety pigglety pop!
Some swell pup
The Sign on Rosie's Door
The juniper tree, and other tales from Grimm
One was Johnny
King Grisly-Beard King Grisly-Beard
Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water
Pierre
Mommy?
We are all in the dumps, with Jack and Guy
Bumble-Ardy
I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue
Charlotte and the white horse
The Worlds of Childhood (The Writer's Craft)
Seven Little Monsters
Nutshell Library
Kenny's Window
Little Bear's bad day
Posters by Maurice Sendak
I Dream of Peace
Very Far Away
I saw Esau
Dear Mili
My brother's book
Really Rosie
Maurice Sendak
Where The Wild Things Are Puzzle Book Based On The Major Motion Picture
Pictures by Maurice Sendak
Ten Little Rabbits
Questions to an artist who is also an author
Caldecott & Co
Owl and the Pussycat
Sendak in Asia
Maurice Sendak's Christmas Mystery/Full-Color Book of Clues and Jigsaw Puzzle
Higglety pigglety pop! ; and, Where the wild things are
Victorian color picture books
Somebody else's nut tree
Where the Wild Things Are CD
The Disney poster book
Swine Lake
But the Giraffe, a Curtain Raising and Brundibar a Libretto
Sendak at the Rosenbach
Shadrach
Conversations with Maurice Sendak
Nutcracker
maman pop up
Kiss for Little Bear
The eventful history of Three blind mice
The Art Of Maurice Sendak
Juniper Tree and Other Tales
Fantasy Sketches
Mama??
Maggie Rose
Caldecott & Co.
Mini-bibliothèque
I Saw Esau
Pictures
I Saw Esau
The Happy Rain
The acrobat
Big Green Book
Cunning Little Vixen
Maurice Sendak with Paul Vaughan
The Publishing archive of Lothar Meggendorfer
Changelings
Mummy
Non renseigné
Boxed-Maurice Sendak #2 -Op/03
Caldecott & Co.
Nutshell Board Book Library
The Genius of Lothar Meggendorfer
Mary Robinette Kowal
Mary Robinette Kowal (born 1969)

puppeteer, chairperson, puppet designer, film director

  • East Carolina University

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Valour And Vanity
Shades of Milk and Honey
Glamour in glass
Epic
Scenting the dark & other stories
Of Noble Family
Without a Summer
Ghost Talkers
Shadows Beneath
Athena's Daughters, vol. 1: Women in Science Fiction & Fantasy (Volume 1)
Chaos and Cosmos Sampler, Part 1
Word Puppets
Complete Glamourist Histories
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Relics, Wrecks and Ruins
The Calculating Stars
The Best of Uncanny
Unbound
The Fated Sky
The Relentless Moon
Tor.com Collection
Forest of Memory
The Long List Anthology Volume 3: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List (The Long List Anthology Series)
Nebula Awards Showcase 54
Leave Your World Behind - a Fantasy Fiction Sampler
Indexing
The Museum of Abandoned Secrets
Tears in Rain
Night and Silence
A Killing Frost
One Salt Sea
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
Ashes of Honor
An Artificial Night
The Unkindest Tide
Chimes at Midnight
Futurescapes
Indexing
Whitehall Season 1 Episode 8
The Long List Anthology Volume 4
The Qualia Engine
A la deriva en el mar de las Lluvias y otros relatos (Nova fantástica) (Spanish Edition)
Fated Sky
Whitehall Season 1 Episode 6
Spare Man
Never Look Back
Molly on the Moon
Whitehall Season 1 Episode 12
Whitehall Season 1 Episode 5
Whitehall Season 1 Episode 3
Night Guest
Whitehall Season One Volume Two
The Derivative Base
Whitehall Season 1 Episode 1
Whitehall Season One Volume One
Life Beyond Us
Whitehall Season 1 Episode 7
Articulated Restraint
Whitehall Season One
Geeky Giving: A SFF Charity Anthology
Home in Carolina
Whitehall Season 1 Episode 9
First Flight
Whitehall Season 1 Episode 4
Spare Man Sneak Peek
Lady Astronaut of Mars
Whitehall Season 1 Episode 11
Whitehall Season 1 Episode 13
Whitehall Season 1 Episode 10
Whitehall Season 1 Episode 2
The Original
Lisa Smedman
Lisa Smedman (born 1959)

journalist, role-playing game designer

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Rich Burlew
Rich Burlew (born 1974)

role-playing game designer, comics artist

  • Pratt Institute

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