Ray Turney

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Ray Turney
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Occupation Game designer

Ray Turney is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Hendrik Jan Pfeiffer, Art Turney and Ray Turney originally planned to publish information on the fictional world of Glorantha from White Bear and Red Moon as a supplement for Dungeons & Dragons , but Greg Stafford wanted an original role-playing game created for Glorantha. Ideas for an original gaming system for Glorantha came about during a conversation between Steve Perrin, Steve Henderson and Warren James at a Greyhaven party, and they were soon joined by Ray Turney from the original team. [1] : 81 

Perrin and Turney designed RuneQuest which was published by Chaosium in 1978. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] The rules system for RuneQuest was created by Perrin, Turney, Henderson and James. [10] Chaosium considered publishing Arduin in 1976, but found the game too complex and derivative of Dungeons & Dragons , and according to author Stu Horvath in 2023 "it took a couple of years before designers Steve Perrin and Ray Turney struck upon the right formula for the RPG that would become RuneQuest. The result was a radical departure from RPG norms." [11]

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