Jesse Scoble

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Jesse Scoble
Nationality Canadian
Occupation Game designer

Jesse Scoble is a Canadian game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Career

Jesse Scoble was a gamemaster for Mark C. MacKinnon, and Scoble became an employee of Guardians of Order a few years after MacKinnon started the game company. [1] : 336  Scoble designed the El-Hazard Role-Playing Game (2001), one of the games based on licensed properties by Guardians of Order. [1] : 336  The superhero role-playing game Silver Age Sentinels (2002) was written by MacKinnon, Jeff Mackintosh and Scoble, with Steve Kenson and developed by Lucien Soulban. [1] : 337  He wrote the world bible for the Silver Age Sentinels superhero game line. [2] Scoble oversaw the development of the role-playing game based on A Song of Ice and Fire , which was published as A Game of Thrones (2005). [1] : 338  He was creative director on the award-winning A Game of Thrones RPG. [2] He has contributed to more than two dozen books, including two short-story anthologies (based on Silver Age Sentinels), and several books for White Wolf. [2] He has also worked as a web content writer for NCsoft, crafting Web and event fiction for a series of massively multi-player online games, including City of Heroes , Dungeon Runners , and Exteel . [2] After living for a year in Texas, Scoble returned to Canada to work freelance and work on writing screenplays. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN   978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Scoble, Jesse (2007). "A Game of Thrones". In Lowder, James (ed.). Hobby Games: The 100 Best . Green Ronin Publishing. pp. 126–129. ISBN   978-1-932442-96-0.
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