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role-playing game designers who wrote fantasy
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Walter Jon Williams
Walter Jon Williams (born 1952)

role-playing game designer

  • University of New Mexico

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Knight Moves
This Is Not a Game
Implied Spaces
Quillifer
House of Shards (Crown Jewels)
Quillifer
Aristoi
The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction
Worlds That Weren't
Days of Atonement
Star Wars - The New Jedi Order - Destiny's Way
The rift
Dead Man's Hand
Facets
Hardwired
Voice of the whirlwind
The Sundering
The sundering
The Praxis
Dread Empire's Fall
Voice of the Whirlwind
City on fire
The Green Leopard Plague And Other Stories
Ambassador of Progress
Metropolitan
Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall)
Star Wars - The New Jedi Order - Ylesia
Deep state
Conventions of War
Implied Spaces Singularity
The fourth wall
Rock of ages
Imperium Restored
Cablé
City on fire
Star Wars, tome 9
Futurs à gogos
Frankensteins and Foreign Devils
Angel Station
Impersonations
Plasma City
The Sundering: Dread Empire's Fall (Dread Empire's Fall Series)
Clarkesworld Issue 111
Solip:system
The Praxis
Le souffle du cyclone
Deep State
Dinosaurs
The Crown Jewels
Accidental war
Metropolitan
Ten Points for Style
Sept jours pour expier
Sept Jours Pour Expier
La Guerre du plasma
Dinosaurs
Hardwired
House of shards
The Boolean gate
Les joyaux de la couronne
Investments
Conventions of War
Scott Sigler
Scott Sigler (born 1969)

podcaster, role-playing game designer

  • Cleary University, University of Olivet

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Pandemic
Unfettered II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
Nocturnal
Infected
Slay
Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
Contagious
Infected
Nocturnal
Ancestor
The End Has Come
Alive (The Generations Trilogy)
Hardboiled Horror
Aliens
Earthcore
Ancestor
Asp Technocracy (Silent Death, the Next Millennium)
Alight
Contagious
Earthcore
Alone (The Generations Trilogy)
Contagious
EARTHCORE
Mount Fitz Roy
The starter
All-Pro
Ancestor
The rookie
Sigurd Archdiocese
EarthCore
[(Infected)] [By (author) Scott Sigler] published on (October, 2008)
Alien - Alien
Alone
Alone
Trigger Guard
Alight
The Champion: Galactic Football League: Book Five
Aliens Omnibus (Aliens: Phalanx, Aliens: Infiltrator, Aliens: Vasquez)
Kissyman and the Gentleman
Pandemic - Die Seuche
The Gangster
MVP
Infected
Infecção
Ancestor
Enfeksiyon
Ancestor
Nocturnal
KurtuluÅŸ
Infection
Ancestor : a novel
Infected
Pandemic
Pandemic
The MVP
Uyanis
The Rookie
Ancestor
M. A. R. Barker
M. A. R. Barker (1929-2012)

linguist, board game designer, role-playing game designer

  • University of Washington, University of California, Berkeley

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Flamesong (Tekumel)
Mitlanyál, Vol. 1
Prince of Skulls
A Death Of Kings
Lords of Tsamra
The Man of Gold
Skip Williams
Skip Williams (born 1954)

role-playing game designer

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Dungeon Master's Guide
Monstrous Compendium
Monster Manual
The Sea Devils
Dungeons & dragons dungeon master's guide
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
The Draconomicon
Player's Handbook
Races of the Wild
Van Richten's Guide to the Ancient Dead
City Sites
Deep Horizon
Dungeon Master Option
Monster Manual
Of Ships and the Sea (Dmgr Rules Supplement)
The Rod of Seven Parts (AD&D Fantasy Roleplaying)
Cry Havoc (Sword & Sorcery D20)
The Reluctant Spa Director (And the Mission Dream)
Treasure Chest
Axe of the Dwarvish Lords (AD&D Tomes Series)
HEROES OF STEEL (Dragonlance)
Greyhawk Adventures
Vengeance of Alphaks
Thief's Screen/Screens and Reference Material
Legacy of the Blood: Great Families of the Core (Ravenloft Accessory)
Book of Challenges
Dungeon Master's screen
Deities and Demigods
In the Abyss (AD&D/Planescape)
Ari Marmell
Ari Marmell (born 1974)

game designer, role-playing game designer, designer

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Thief's covenant
Writing Fantasy Heroes
The goblin corps
The conqueror's shadow
The Forge of War
Darksiders: The Abomination Vault
Agents of artifice
Covenant's End: A Widdershins Adventure
Mind's Eye Theatre
Hallow Point
Tales of the Lost Citadel Anthology
Lost covenant
Fortress of the Yuan-ti (D&D)
In thunder forged
The Gilded Cage
Archons and Templars (Vampire, the Masquerade)
The Conqueror's Shadow
Gehenna
City of the Damned: New Orleans (Vampire: the Requiem)
False covenant
The Warlord's Legacy
Tomb of Horrors
In Truth and Claw (A Mick Oberon Job #4) (A Mick Oberon Job Book)
The Conqueror's Shadow
Hot Lead, Cold Iron: A Mick Oberon Job Book 1
Adventures in the Borderlands Provinces 5E
Warlord's Legacy
Adventures in the Borderlands Provinces PF PoD
Adventures in the Borderlands Provinces SW PoD
Adventures in the Borderlands Provinces SW PDF
Adventures in the Borderlands Provinces SW
Goblin Corps
Conqueror?'s Shadow
Dead to Rites
Adventures in the Borderlands Provinces 5E PDF
Adventures in the Borderlands Provinces 5E PoD
Adventures in the Borderlands Provinces PF PDF
Adventures in the Borderlands Provinces Pathfinder
Covenant's End
Fantastic Locations
Hot Lead Cold Iron A Mick Oberon Job
Gehenna, the Final Night
Complete Champion
Egyptian Adventures
The Doom of Listonshire
Madness on the Orient Express: 16 Lovecraftian Tales of an Unforgettable Journey (Chaosium Fiction)
Shades of Grey
Buccaneers Of Freeport
Litany of Dreams
The warlord's legacy
Heroes of Horror
Cityscape
World of Darkness
Echoes of the Past
Victorian Age
Draconomicon Chromatic Dragons Roleplaying Game Supplement
State of Grace
Complete Mage
Spoils of War: A Sourcebook for Dark Ages
Tome of Magic
The Serpent Citadel (Scarred Lands D20)
Belials Brood (Vampire the Requiem)
Vampire
Black Crusade (Ravenloft Novel: Ravenloft Dominion)
Serpent and the Scepter (D20 Generic System)
Ash & Ambition
Strange New Words
Letanía de los sueños
The conqueror's shadow
Lost Covenant
Shock Totem 5
Pakt złodziejki
The conqueror's shadow
Black crusade
The Iron Devils
Bloodstone
Widdershins - tome 1 Le Pacte de la voleuse
Corvis Rebaine T02 L'Héritage du conquérant
The warlord's legacy
False Covenant
Letanía de los sueños
Agents of Artifice
James Wyatt
James Wyatt (born 1968)

role-playing game designer

  • Oberlin College, Union Theological Seminary

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War of the spark
Oriental Adventures
In the Claws of the Tiger
Player's guide to Eberron
Monster Manual
City of the Spider Queen
Pyramid of Shadows
Dungeons & dragons dungeon master's guide 2
Concepts & legends
Defenders of the faith
D20 past
Player's Handbook
Dungeon Master 4th Edition For Dummies
Ravnica
Dominaria
Amonkhet
Ixalan
Zendikar
Innistrad
Dungeons & Dragons
Eberron Campaign Guide
Dragon Forge
Storm Dragon
The Speaker in Dreams
Oath of vigilance
Kaladesh
Eberron Campaign Setting
Dungeon Masters Kit Everything You Need To Run The Worlds Greatest Roleplaying Game
El arte de Magic. The Gathering. Kaladesh
Arms and equipment guide
Fane of the Forgotten Gods
Eberron campaign guide
Art of Discussion
Lost Caverns of the Underdark
Dire Tombs
Legacy of the Crystal Shard
Player's handbook races - dragonborn
D&D RPG
Turtle, Ferns, and Love
Cool Thing about Saturdays
Krainy Wschodu
Deities and Demigods
Dragon war
Nigel Findley
Nigel Findley (1959-1995)

role-playing game designer

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Lone wolf
Into the Void
Shadowplay
Shadowrun 17
Tome of Magic
2XS
No Limits (A Virtual World Novel)
Ninja Wars
Out Of Nippon
GURPS Illuminati
Lost Kaer (Earthdawn)
Practical Planetology
Der Einzelgänger
The Universal Brotherhood
Corporate Shadowfiles
Aztlan
Native American Nations (Shadowrun, No 7207)
The Neo-Anarchist's the Guide to Real Life (Shadowrun RPG)
Skull and Crossbows
Paranormal Animals of North America/Shadowrun 7105
Horrors of North America
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Phases of the Moon (Buck Rogers/25th Century RPG Module XXVCS4) (Xxvcs4, Buck Rogers, 25th Century Official Game Adventure, No. 3578)
Megakons
Native American Nations (Shadowrun 7202)
Awakening: Diablerie
Denver
Realms of Fantasy
Tir Tairngire (Shadowrun 7210)
Höhenflug. 35. Roman im Battletech- Zyklus
Goroth
Lone star
The broken sphere
Van Richten's Guide to Werebeasts (AD&D 2nd Edition, Ravenloft Accessory)
Shadowrun
Thieves of Lankhmar, LNA1 AD&D Official Game Adventure
Van Richten's monster hunter's compendium
Shadowrun (Roc)
Knights
Dangerous Prey; Whispering Vault RPG
Grille-neurones
*OP Dark Alliance Vancouver
Gareth Hanrahan
Gareth Hanrahan (born 1977)

game designer, role-playing game designer, editor

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Paranoia
Paranoia
Traveller
Traveller
Pathfinder Player Companion
Dragon Warriors
Conan Game Master's Screen
Plegaría de la calle, La
The Broken God
Paranoia
The Secrets Of Tolkiens World A Guide To The Peoples And Places Of Middleearth
Jrustela (Runequest RPG)
Military Vehicles Traveller Supplement
Paranoia XP
Civilian Vehicles Traveller Supplement
Traveller Book 0
Pirates (Runequest RPG)
Slayers Guide to Titans
Granbretan (Hawkmoon)
RuneQuest - Elric of Melnibone
Conan
The Titanic Notebook The Story Of The Worlds Most Famous Ship
Åšwiat Tolkiena. Åšródziemie
Tolkien's World
Babylon 5
The Shadow Saint
The Gutter Prayer
Sword Defiant
Alien Module 1 Aslan
Alpha Complex Nights
The Heart of the Wild
The Thin Green Line Paranoia
Dragon Warriors Bestiary
Behind Enemy Times
Alpha Complex Nights 2
Tales from Wilderland None
RuneQuest Hawkmoon (Runequest RPG)
Termination Quote Exceeded
La plegaria de la calle
Mandatory Mission Pack
Los santos de sombra
Secrets of Skelos
Return to the Road of Kings
Sword Unbound
Classic Play Book of the Sea
A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Termination Booth
Adventures in the Hyborian Age
Internal Security
Paranoia Forms Pack
Secrets of Tragic Europe
Relics
New Gareth Hanrahan Novel #2
RuneQuest
Traveller
Paranoia
Big Book of Bots
Untitled Gareth Hanrahan 1
Paranoia
Troubleshooters
None of This Is My Fault
Necromancy
Classic play book of dragons