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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.
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, so his friend Greg Costikyan 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. [2]
This article was
nominated for
deletion.
The discussion was closed on 25 April 2024 with a consensus to
merge the content into the article
Paranoia (role-playing game). If you find that such action has not been taken promptly, please consider assisting in the merger instead of re-nominating the article for deletion. To discuss the merger, please use
the destination article's talk page. (April 2024) |
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.
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, so his friend Greg Costikyan 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. [2]