Scott Fitzgerald Gray

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Scott Fitzgerald Gray is a Canadian writer, editor, story editor, and role-playing game designer known for his work on the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop role-playing game.

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Biography

Gray was born in British Columbia, Canada, and has lived there most of his life. [1] He started playing role-playing games in high school, [2] and has spoken of how discovering Dungeons & Dragons was instrumental in helping him deal with depression and thoughts of suicide as a teenager.[ citation needed ] In the 1990s he lived in Vancouver, and wrote reviews for the Vancouver Sun . [3] [4] His wife is a schoolteacher, and they have two daughters, and a large number of pets. [2]

After spending a number of years in publishing, he started freelancing in tabletop RPGs in 2004, [5] [2] working for Wizards of the Coast and a number of smaller companies. [2] He has written and edited upwards of two hundred books, adventures, and articles. [6] Gray was the editor of the fifth edition Monster Manual , and one of the editors of the Dungeon Master's Guide , the Player's Handbook , and the D&D Starter Set . [7] He also worked for Penny Arcade as managing editor and co-creative director on the Acquisitions Incorporated (2019) book published by Wizards of the Coast. [8]

Gray is an author of Secrets of Sarlona (2007). [9] He wrote the third adventure for the Scales of War adventure path in 2009, "The Shadow Rift of Umbraforge". [10] The 2010 version of Tomb of Horrors was written by Gray and Ari Marmell. [11] He is known for the adventure Dead in Thay, written for the D&D Encounters series in 2014 during the D&D Next playtest for 5th edition, [12] [13] and updated to appear in the Tales from the Yawning Portal hardcover in 2017. [14] [15] He also wrote the ENnie-nominated The Hidden Halls of Hazakor (2018), a 5E starter adventure for young Dungeon Masters, published by his own Insane Angel Studios imprint. [16] He was an editor on the Stranger Things Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set (2019). [17]

In addition to his RPG work, Gray is the author of a number of fantasy novels and anthologies, including We Can Be Heroes (2012), a contemporary SF novel about gamers, whose character story draws on elements from his own life. [18] He also wrote Sidnye (Queen of the Universe) (2013), a science fiction novel about a thirteen-year-old girl. [19]

Gray spoke at a Master Class on writing at the 2021 Word on the Lake Writers' Festival in Salmon Arm, [20] and he was among the cast of presenters for the 2022 Word on the Lake Writers' Festival. [21]

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