Teeuwynn Woodruff
Teeuwynn Woodruff is a writer and game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games, TV writing and interviewing, and trading card games.
Freelancer[edit]
Teeuwynn Woodruff was introduced to role-playing games at an early age, playing her first game of Dungeons & Dragons when she was 11, according to Woodruff.[2]:3:00 In an interview with internet podcast called Midnight Express, Woodruff said that after college, she met some employees of TSR while attending a games convention in 1992, which led to the idea of a career as a freelance fantasy writer; subsequently she sent some material to TSR and one of her monster designs appeared in the AD&D adventure Assault on Raven's Ruin.[2]:4:00
White Wolf and WotC[edit]
Woodruff said in an internet podcast interview that she was hired by White Wolf in 1993 as their first female game designer.[3]:7:55
In 1995, she moved to Seattle to join the staff of Wizards of the Coast (WotC), and claims to have been their first female game designer.[3]:8:00 Woodruff was part of the design team on a multitude of projects including BattleTech, Netrunner, Magic: The Gathering (7th edition), Duelmasters, Dreamblade, and Pokémon Trading Card Game. After WotC bought TSR in 1997, she also contributed to several D&D projects including Masters of the Wild. Woodruff was on the design team with Wolfgang Baur and Mike Selinker for a role-playing game based on Magic: The Gathering, but Wizards cancelled this project in 1996.[4]:140[5] She was also on the design team for Betrayal at House on the Hill.[6][7]
Lone Shark[edit]
In 2005, she and Mike Selinker left WotC to form Lone Shark Games.[3]:30:40 Lone Shark also specialized in creating giant puzzles at events like Gencon, Microsoft's annual three-day employee picnic, and other industry events such as the launch party for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.[8][3]:31:15
While working at Lone Shark, Woodruff continued to freelance, interviewing participants and producers of various reality shows such The Amazing Race and Survivor, then publishing articles for now defunct RealityNewsOnline.[9][3]:36:15
Female game designer[edit]
Woodruff's presence in the male-dominated games industry was mentioned by a columnist Nicole Brodeur in the Local News section of the Seattle Times, who wrote, "Woodruff brings a female sensibility [...] to the male-dominated world of games and puzzles. And that is rare. [Co-founder of Lone Shark Games Mike] Selinker couldn’t name five female game designers, something he blames on 'institutional biases,' and the belief that women 'can’t handle' mathematics." In the article, Woodruff commented that "'Women do play games [...] They’re just not games that men count.'"[1]
Reception to her works[edit]
Galitia Citybook: In the March 1995 edition of Dragon (Issue 215), Rick Swan reviewed Woodruff's book Galitia Citybook (written for West End Game's Bloodshadows RPG), and commented that "most of it's interesting, but there's nothing noteworthy." He gave the book an average rating of 3 out of 6, saying, "The lack of an adventure and the awkward narrative [...] make this an iffy buy."[10]
Star Sisterz: Kidzworld reviewed Woodruff's collectible charm game and gave it a rating of four out of five stars, praising the game's bracelet charms and cards, but stating that the game needed multiple players to be fun and that "some of the card challenges are really lame".[11]
Bibliography[edit]
RPGs sourcebooks (sole author)[edit]
- Galitia Citybook (Masterbook, 1994)
- Van Richten's Guide to the Created (AD&D 2nd edition, 1994)
- The World of Species (MasterBook, 1995)
- Van Richten's Guide to Fiends (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons/Ravenloft, 2000)
RPGs sourcebooks (co-author)[edit]
- Book of Shadows: Mage Players Guide (Mage: The Ascension, 1993)
- Book of the Wyrm (Werewolf: The Apocalypse, 1993)
- Caerns: Places of Power (Werewolf: The Apocalypse, 1993)
- Vampire Players Guide, 2nd Ed. (Vampire: The Masquerade, 1993)
- Werewolf Players Guide (Werewolf: The Apocalypse) (1993)
- Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (Vampire: The Masquerade, 1994)
- Elysium (Vampire: The Masquerade, 1994)
- Mystara Monstrous Compendium Appendix (D&D, 1994)
- Werewolf Storytellers Handbook (Werewolf: The Apocalypse, 1994)
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse, 2nd Ed. (1994)
- World of Darkness: Gypsies (1994)
- Wraith: The Oblivion (1994)
- Monstrous Compendium Appendix (AD&D 2nd edition, 1994)
- Monstrous Compendium Appendix III: Creatures of Darkness (AD&D 2nd edition, 1994)
- Wraith Players Guide (Wraith: The Oblivion, 1995)
- Save Attack: A Player's Guide to Rage (Rage CCG, 1995)
- The World of Species (1995)
- Mage: The Ascension, 2nd Ed. (1995)
- Horrors (Earthdawn, 1995)
- Ascension's Right Hand (Mage: The Ascension, 1995)
- Axis Mundi: The Book of Spirits (Werewolf: The Apocalypse, 1996)
- Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium, Vol One (AD&D 2nd Ed/Ravenloft, 1999)
- Giovanni Saga 1: The Last Supper and Blood & Fire (Vampire: The Masquerade, 2000)
- Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Templars (Indiana Jones RPG, 2000)
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Revised Ed. (2000)
- Scourge Unending (Earthdawn) (2003)
- Magic: The Gathering Rulebook (2001)
- D6 Adventure(D6 System, 2004)
- D6 Bloodshadows (2004)
- D6 Fantasy (D6 System, 2004)
- Descent: Journeys in the Dark (2009)
Games (author)[edit]
- Star Sisterz (collectible charm game, 2004)
Games (Co-author)[edit]
- Pokemon Trading Card Game (1994)
- Magic: The Gathering CCG, 7th edition (2001)
- Betrayal at House on the Hill (2004)[12]
- Warstone (collectible marble game, 2008)
- The Ten Commandments (2009)
- Top Ten: The Bill of Rights (2009)
- Paragon (2019)
- Plot Points (2019)
RPG adventures (author)[edit]
- With Dead Desire, White Wolf Magazine #46 (Wraith: The Oblivion)
- Into the Midnight, White Wolf Magazine #47 (Wraith: The Oblivion)
RPG adventures, co-author[edit]
- Assault on Raven's Ruin (D&D, 1992)
- A Way With Words, Dungeon #41, (AD&D 2nd edition, 1993)
Short non-fiction[edit]
- Bazaar of the Bizarre: Wonderful & powerful, indeed – new figurines of wondrous power (Dragon Issue 196, August 1993)
Short fiction[edit]
- Good Wood (2018)
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brodeur, Nicole (2009-08-28). "Catch him if you can — win $5,000". Seattle Times. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 BK Adrian (2020-12-02). "Episode 43 - Into the fold [Teeuwynn Woodruff interview]". Midnight Express (Podcast). Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Sam Chubb (2012-12-31). "44: Teeuwynn Woodruff Interview". The Bear's Grove (Podcast). Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '90s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-084-7. Search this book on
- ↑ Varney, Allen (June 1996). "Current Clack". Dragon. TSR, Inc. (230): 120.
- ↑ Woodruff, Teeuwynn (2007). "Lord of the Rings". In Lowder, James. Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Green Ronin Publishing. pp. 183–187. ISBN 978-1-932442-96-0. Search this book on
- ↑ Selinker, Mike (2016). Betrayal at House on the Hill: Widow's Walk (PDF). Wizards of the Coast. Search this book on
- ↑ "Stuff We Do". lonesharkgames.com. Lone Shark Games. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20111224174117/http://www.realitynewsonline.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl?mode=1&article=article6831.art&page=1
- ↑ Swan, Rick (March 1995). "Roleplaying Reviews". Dragon. TSR, Inc. (215): 85–86.
- ↑ "Star Sisterz Collectable Charm Bracelet Game Review". KidsWorld.com. 2006-12-27. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
- ↑ Hall, Charlie (2017-06-09). "D&D is coming to Betrayal at House on the Hill". Polygon. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
External links[edit]
- "Teeuwynn Woodruff :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on May 19, 2007. Unknown parameter
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