Jeff Barber

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Jeff Barber
Nationality American
Occupation Game designer

Jeffrey Barber is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. [1]

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Career

Jeff Barber was a gamer from Columbia, Missouri, who joined the volunteer staff of Pagan Publishing and collaborated with John Scott Tynes on adventures and other games. [2] :244 He co-wrote "Grace under pressure" with Pagan publishing's staff, the book is currently out of print. [3] Pagan Publishing later moved to Seattle in 1994, so Barber and others left Pagan and founded Biohazard Games, publishers of Blue Planet (1997). [2] :245,345 Fantasy Flight Games spent 2000 publishing a new line of role-playing game products in the form of a new edition of Blue Planet from Barber and Greg Benage. [2] :345 He is one of the author of the Midnight campaign setting. [4]

Bibliography

Killer Crosshairs, Biohazard Games 1995.

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