Graeme Morris (game designer)

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BornGraeme Morris
OccupationGame designer
NationalityBritish
Genre Role-playing games

Graeme Morris is a British RPG designer.

Career

Graeme Morris worked for TSR UK Ltd between 1981 and 1988. He designed adventures for Greyhawk , Dragonlance , Mystara , generic AD&D, "D&D" and Star Frontiers . He also contributed to the design of the original Fiend Folio tome as the creator of the hoar fox.

Morris contributed to the cartography, editing, and production for the U1-3 module series, The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh , Danger at Dunwater , and The Final Enemy . He also contributed to the UK1-7 modules with cartography, design, and development for UK1 Beyond the Crystal Cave ; concept, design and writing for UK2 The Sentinel and UK3 The Gauntlet ; author and story-line for UK4 When a Star Falls ; author and production for UK5 Eye of the Serpent ; as well as story-line for UK6 All That Glitters and UK7 Dark Clouds Gather . The Creature Catalogue was compiled by Morris and he was the author for I8 Ravager of Time . With Mike Brunton, he wrote the UK module ST1 for the 1986 Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival; Up the Garden Path which since has become one of the most sought-after AD&D modules of all time, for the reason that it had a very limited print run and the unsold items (after the Festival) were mostly pulped. One copy is reputed to have been sold at an online auction for nearly $1500.[ citation needed ]


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