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Top Ten Designers of The RPG Site

Started by Pierce Inverarity, March 16, 2007, 08:36:25 PM

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GMSkarka

#30
March 19, 2007, 01:40:37 PM
The designers who really turn my crank, and inspired me to try my hand at designing:

1) Mark W. Miller -- Original, Little Black Book Traveller.

2) Chris Klug -- Victory Games' James Bond 007 RPG -- way ahead of its time, and my favorite rules system design EVER.

3) Merle Rasmussen -- The original pre-"S.I." version of Top Secret. (my first RPG)

4) Steve Kenson -- for demonstrating that it's still possible to do amazing designs within the confines of the OGL.

5) Jeff Grubb -- for the FASERIP Marvel Superheroes RPG.  Near-perfect genre emulation.

There are tons more, but those are the biggies.
Gareth-Michael Skarka
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amnesiack

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March 19, 2007, 02:28:27 PM
    Vincent Baker
    Rebecca Borgstrom
    Luke Crane
    Fred Hicks
    Robin Laws
    Clinton R. Nixon
    Mike Pondsmith
    Matt Snyder
    Jonathan Tweet
    John Wick
 

jdrakeh

#32
March 19, 2007, 03:01:53 PM
1. Gary Gygax -- For spawning our hobby.

2. Steve Jackson (UK) -- For the Fighting Fantasy phenomena and bringing rules-light games to the world's attention by breaking into the mainstream.

3. Steve Jackson (US) -- For TFT and the world's frst truly successful marketing model for universal game systems.

4. Sandy Petersen -- For the world's first horror RPG.

5. Greg Stafford -- For D&D's first real competition in fantasy.

6. Robin Laws -- For leading the rules-light revolution of the mid-1990s.

7. Gareth Skarka -- For the early games of Epitaph Studios which made Kansas a much more cool place to game and, eventually, went on to earn GoO some major name recognition.

8. S. John Ross -- For the first truly recognized free-press RPG, RISUS.

9. John Zinzer -- For the first fully realized adventure path, complete with its own setting-specific rule set (and full-blown setting).  

10. Clinton Nixon -- For pushing the indie-press movement as far and as hard as he has, via establishing the Forge, coordinating to establish IPR, etc.
 

lev_lafayette

#33
March 20, 2007, 01:01:45 AM
Quote from: GMSkarka2) Chris Klug -- Victory Games' James Bond 007 RPG -- way ahead of its time, and my favorite rules system design EVER.

And DragonQuest. Don't forget DragonQuest.
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