Tom Jolly
Tom Jolly is a board game inventor.
Career[edit]
Tom Jolly's games include Wiz-War, Drakon, Cavetroll, Light Speed, Camelot, Cargo, and he co-designed DiskWars and Vortex/Maelstrom.[1] Additional games he has designed include Gootmu, Knots, WayWord, and Got It!.[citation needed] The publisher of Wiz-War, Chessex, printed the fourth through the 7th editions of Wiz-War.The seventh edition, came out in 1997.[2] The eighth edition was released by publisher Fantasy Flight Games in 2012.[3] The first expansion set, Malefic Curses, came out in January 2014.[4] The ninth edition will be released by Steve Jackson Games.[5] [6]
Fantasy Flight Games published Jolly's DiskWars game in 1998, and a later fusion of the game was made with Alderac Entertainment Group's Rokugan setting resulting in DiskWars: Legend of the Five Rings (2000), and another mashup with Pinnacle Entertainment Group's Deadlands which resulted in Doom Town Range Wars (2000).[7] In January 2014, Diskwars was yet again revived in the form of Warhammer:Diskwars, combining Diskwars mechanics with the Warhammer fantasy world.
Tom Jolly has also written several short Science Fiction and Fantasy stories published by a variety of on-line and paper magazines. He has also designed over 40 puzzles, produced by a number of companies and woodcrafters around the world.[8]
Jolly lives in California with his wife, having retired from his career as an electrical engineer.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Jolly, Tom (2007). "Citadels". In Lowder, James (ed.). Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Green Ronin Publishing. pp. 58–61. ISBN 978-1-932442-96-0.
- ^ "Simulacrum.com GameDB : Wiz War". September 28, 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28.
- ^ "The Triumphant Return of Wiz-War". www.fantasyflightgames.com.
- ^ "Malefic Curses". www.fantasyflightgames.com.
- ^ "Steve Jackson Games bought the rights to do a new edition!". www.sjgames.com.
- ^ "Wiz-War 9th ed". www.boardgamegeek.com.
- ^ Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. p. 345. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ "Tom Jolly Autobiography". www.silcom.com. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
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