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Dan Gelber

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Dan Gelber
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Daniel Seth Gelber is a game designer who has worked primarily on wargames and role-playing games.

Career[edit]

Dan Gelber designed his own role-playing game about a dystopic world controlled by a computer called "Alpha Complex" and ran adventures using this game for his local group, so his friend Greg Costikyan approached Gelber with Eric Goldberg to get the setting published.[1]:186 Gelber gave Goldberg and Costikyan his notes for the game and they used those ideas to complete a full manuscript for a game.[1]:186 Gelber, Costikyan, and Goldberg licensed this Paranoia game to West End Games, and Ken Rolston helped rewrite the rules before it was published in 1984.[1]:187

Gelber also designed (with Jeffrey Simons and Evan Jones) The Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game.[2]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7. Search this book on
  2. "Review of the Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game - RPGnet RPG Game Index".

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