James Desborough
| James Desborough | |
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| Born | December 5, 1975 [1] Winchester [1] |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British |
| Other names | Grim |
| 💼 Occupation | Game designer, author, videographer, podcaster, blogger |
| 🌐 Website | "Postmortem Studios". |
James "Grim" Desborough is a British game designer, author and blogger who has worked primarily on role-playing games, as well as card games, board games and social computer games.
Career[edit]
James Desborough wrote The Munchkin's Guide to Powergaming in 2000/2001,[2] winning an Origins Award for that work along with his co-author Steve Mortimer.[3] Desborough was a co-author of CS1: Cannibal Sector One he also briefly worked as the line editor for SLA Industries.[4] Desborough is also the owner of Postmortem Studios.[4] Postmortem Studios was one of Cubicle 7's first company partnerships thanks to Desborough's connections with Angus Abranson.[4] He later became creative director at Chronicle City, Abranson's new venture[5] but this partnership ended in July 2021.[6]
In 2017 he released a licensed role-playing game based on John Norman's fantasy series Gor, which also included art by Michael Manning.[7]
Desborough's work was included in Red Phone Box,[8] and in The Mammoth Book of Erotic Romance and Domination.[9] He also self-publishes.
His D&D design work includes Monster Manual V (2007) and City of Stormreach (2008).
Desborough's career has often been characterised by humour and adult content, leading to his role as Games Master for the adult stream 'Tabletopless'.[10] While the stream primarily plays Dungeons and Dragons they have also played Cyberpunk, The Witcher and others.
Desborough is the author of a self-published August 2017 book which claimed that Gamergate was "a genuinely important battle in the ongoing culture war"[11]:{{{1}}} and portrayed it as a necessary "social revolt" against a new Satanic Panic, rather than as a harassment campaign. In the book's introduction, Desborough writes that his distress regarding opposition and harassment related to Gamergate, as well as a sense of betrayal led him to attempt suicide in October 2014.[11]:{{{1}}}
Reception[edit]
Desborough has been quoted or used as a pundit on men's issues in various places, including The Stream on Al Jazeera.[12]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Desborough, James (2023-02-18). "I'm the Subject of a Wikipedia Edit War". Postmortem Studios. Archived from the original on 18 February 2023. Retrieved 2023-02-18. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ The Munchkin's Guide to Powergaming: ISBN 1-55634-347-7 Search this book on
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- ↑ "Origins Awards 2000". Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-07. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. p. 430. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7. Search this book on
- ↑ "Chronicle City appoints "Grim" James Desborough". 13 February 2013. Archived from the original on 3 May 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2014. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ ""Grim" James Desborough ends partnership with Chronicle city". 1 July 2021. Archived from the original on 17 November 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ grimachu (23 April 2017). "#RPG – The Gor RPG is RELEASED!". Postmortem Studios. Archived from the original on 28 April 2017. Retrieved 2017-04-27. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Ghostwoods Books". Archived from the original on 2014-05-28. Retrieved 2014-06-21. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Jakubowski, Maxim (8 July 2014). The Mammoth Book of Erotic Romance and Domination. ISBN 978-0762452255. Search this book on
- ↑ "TableTopless Official Website". tabletopless.org. Archived from the original on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 2023-03-15. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 11.0 11.1 Desborough, James (2017). Inside Gamergate: a social history of the gamer revolt (ePub). Postmortem Studios. ISBN 978-0-244-62772-0. OCLC 1011256859. Search this book on
- ↑ raisa (2 June 2014). "Through men's eyes". Archived from the original on 8 June 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2014. Unknown parameter
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External links[edit]
- Home page
- "James Desborough :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on 11 February 2005. Unknown parameter
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