Dan Gelber (game designer)
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Dan Gelber | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Daniel Seth Gelber is a game designer who has worked primarily on wargames and role-playing games.
Career
Dan Gelber designed his own role-playing game about a dystopic world controlled by a computer called "Alpha Complex" and ran adventures using this game for his local group.[1]: 186 In this game which Gelber designed, the player characters were called "Plaukers" by the non-player characters, and these player characters often undercut and upstaged each other.[2] Gelber was a friend of Greg Costikyan who approached Gelber with Eric Goldberg to get the setting published.[1]: 186 Gelber gave Goldberg and Costikyan his notes for the game and they used those ideas to complete a full manuscript for a game.[1]: 186 Gelber, Costikyan, and Goldberg licensed this Paranoia game to West End Games, and Ken Rolston helped rewrite the rules before it was published in 1984.[1]: 187
Gelber also designed (with Jeffrey Simons and Evan Jones) The Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ Contemporary Perspectives on Game Design. Third Millennium. 2006. ISBN 978-1-932657-64-7.
- ^ "Review of the Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game - RPGnet RPG Game Index".
External links
- "Dan Gelber :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on May 19, 2007.
- "Review of The Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game".
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