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This is a list of individuals who have designed one or more role-playing games, including live-action role-playing games but excluding role-playing video games (see List of video game industry people and its children for video game creators). Artists are listed separately on the annotated List of role-playing game artists.

The design of role-playing games may include the creation of game systems, game settings and scenarios for roleplaying; game designers engage in one or more of these activities as they create, revise and develop roleplaying games. For each designer, this list includes a few representative games, game lines or publications that the designer in question has created or co-authored or where they are credited with a significant contribution.

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  • L. Ross Babcock III - co-creator of the BattleTech setting
  • Wilf K. Backhaus - co-author of Chivalry & Sorcery
  • D. Vincent Baker - Dogs in the Vineyard, Apocalypse World
  • Keith Baker - Eberron; contributions to Feng Shui and various d20 System publications
  • Meguey Baker - Apocalypse World, 1001 Nights, a game of enticing stories, Psi-Run, Valiant Girls
  • Richard Baker[2] - Alternity, Star Drive, Gamma World (7th edition)
  • Cam Banks - co-author of Leverage: The Roleplaying Game and Marvel Heroic Roleplaying; contributions to the Dragonlance setting
  • M. A. R. Barker - Tékumel, Empire of the Petal Throne
  • Kevin Barrett - co-author of Space Master
  • Wolfgang Baur - co-creator of Dark•Matter; contributions to various TSR settings
  • Chris Birch - co-author of Starblazer Adventures, Legends of Anglerre
  • Jason L Blair - Little Fears
  • Anders Blixt - Drakar och Demoner 2nd edition
  • Brian Blume - Boot Hill
  • Emily Care Boss - Breaking the Ice, Under My Skin, Playing With Intent LARP; co-creator of Bubblegumshoe
  • Rob Boyle - Shadowrun 4th Edition, Eclipse Phase
  • Mike Breault - contributions to various TSR settings
  • Bill Bridges - Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension, Mage: The Awakening, Promethean: The Created, Passion Play LARP; co-creator of Fading Suns
  • Anne Brown - contributions to various TSR settings
  • Timothy Brown - 2300 AD; co-author of Dark Sun
  • Phil Brucato - Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade, Deliria: Faerie Tales for a New Millennium; contributions to Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Mage: The Ascension
  • Jason Bulmahn - Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

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  • Liz Danforth - Tunnels & Trolls, fifth and subsequent editions
  • Richard Dansky - various World of Darkness settings
  • Graeme Davis - Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Mind's Eye Theatre LARP
  • Tim Dedopulos - contributions to Unknown Armies and Hunter: The Reckoning
  • Jeff Dee - Villains and Vigilantes
  • Marcelo Del Debbio - Arkanun, Trevas, RPGQuest (Brazilian RPGs)
  • Troy Denning - Chill 2nd edition; co-author of Dark Sun
  • Dennis Detwiller[2] - co-author of Delta Green, Godlike and Nemesis
  • Joe Dever - Lone Wolf, Greystar, Freeway Warrior
  • Larry DiTillio - Masks of Nyarlathotep
  • Michael Dobson - contributions to various TSR settings
  • Rob Donoghue - co-author of Leverage: The Roleplaying Game, Marvel Heroic Roleplaying and Spirit of the Century
  • Tom Dowd - Mind's Eye Theatre LARP, co-author of Shadowrun, contributions to the Storyteller system
  • Ann Dupuis - contributions to GURPS and Fudge

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  • Ron Edwards[4] - creator of Sorcerer RPG, ELFS, Trollbabe, It Was a Mutual Decision, Spione - Story Now in Cold War Berlin, S/Lay w/me

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  • Nigel Findley - Greyspace, GURPS Illuminati; contributions to Shadowrun
  • John M. Ford - GURPS Time Travel; The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues and other contributions to Paranoia

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  • Mark Galeotti - Mythic Russia, The Unspoken Word
  • Richard Garfinkle - Spellcrafter
  • Marc Gascoigne - Judge Dredd: The Role-Playing Game, Advanced Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
  • Dan Gelber - co-creator of Paranoia and Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game
  • Lee Gold - Lands of Adventure, GURPS Japan
  • Eric Goldberg - Commando, DragonQuest; co-creator of Paranoia
  • Joseph Goodman - Dungeon Crawl Classics, Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game
  • Greg Gorden - DC Heroes, Earthdawn; co-author of TORG; contributions to Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game
  • Geoffrey C. Grabowski - Exalted 3rd edition; contributions to Everway and Kindred of the East
  • Andrew Greenberg - Vampire: The Masquerade developer; co-creator of Fading Suns; creator of Rapture: The Second Coming
  • Daniel Greenberg - contributions to Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse
  • Ed Greenwood - Forgotten Realms
  • Jeff Grubb - Marvel Super Heroes, Manual of the Planes, Spelljammer, d20 Modern; contributions to the Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms settings
  • Gary Gygax - co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (with Dave Arneson); creator of Queen of the Spiders, Tomb of Horrors, and Greyhawk; designer of Dangerous Journeys and Lejendary Adventure

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  • Merle M. Rasmussen - Top Secret
  • A. Mark Ratner - Space Marines, co-author of Space Opera
  • John D. Rateliff - The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game
  • Mark Rein·Hagen - Vampire: The Masquerade and other World of Darkness games; the Storyteller system; co-creator of Ars Magica
  • Sean K. Reynolds - contributions to Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms and other TSR settings.
  • Ken Rolston - co-author of Lankhmar – City of Adventure; contributions to Paranoia, Star Wars, RuneQuest and Mystara
  • Aaron S. Rosenberg - Deryni Adventure Game
  • S. John Ross - Uresia: Grave of Heaven, Risus; co-author of GURPS Black Ops
  • Marcus Rowland - Forgotten Futures, Diana: Warrior Princess, The Original Flatland Role Playing Game

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  • Monica Valentinelli - Firefly Role-Playing Game
  • Michael J. Varhola - H.G. Wells' Little Orc Wars
  • Allen Varney - the 2004 edition of Paranoia for Mongoose Publishing; co-author of Send in the Clones; contributions to the Hollow World setting for Mystara
  • George Vasilakos - Conspiracy X, All Flesh Must Be Eaten

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  • Mike Young - Rules to Live By LARP

References[]

  1. ^ Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '70s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-075-5.
  2. ^ a b Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '90s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-084-7.
  3. ^ Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '80s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-081-6.
  4. ^ Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '00s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-087-8.
  5. ^ Kenson, Stephen (August 1999). "Profiles: Steven Schend". Dragon. Renton, Washington: Wizards of the Coast (#262): 112.
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