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Alex Fennell

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Alex Fennell
NationalityBritish
OccupationGame designer

Alexander Fennell is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

Alex Fennell was a Captain in the British army.[1]: 394  When he was on his way out of the army in late 2000, and was considering his next career, Fennell met Matthew Sprange in a pub in Swindon, England, who suggested starting a game company.[1]: 394  Fennell was unconvinced and instead joined a 3G (third generation) mobile communication company.[1]: 394  After six months of working in mobile communications, Fennell was interested in taking on a more creative job, and when Sprange contacted him about forming the game company Mongoose Publishing to publish adventures under Wizards of the Coast's d20 license, Fennell joined him.[1]: 394  Thanks to good sales on their first product, The Slayer's Guide to Hobgoblins (2001), Fennell gave up his day job and became Mongoose's first employee with Sprange joining him a month later.[1]: 394  Fennell used his saved army wages to make sure the company could pay to publish a book a month, even before they started getting payments back from distributors.[1]: 394  Fennell left Mongoose in 2009.[1]: 402 

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.