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Jesse Scoble
NationalityCanadian
OccupationGame designer

Jesse Scoble is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

Jesse Scoble was Mark C. MacKinnon's game master, and Scoble became an employee of Guardians of Order a few years after MacKinnon started the game company.[1]: 336  Scoble designed the El-Hazard Role-Playing Game (2001), another licensed property for Guardians of Order.[1]: 336  The superhero role-playing game Silver Age Sentinels (2002) was written by MacKinnon, Jeff Mackintosh and Scoble, with Steve Kenson and developed by Lucien Soulban.[1]: 337  He wrote the world bible for the Silver Age Sentinels superhero game line.[2] Scoble oversaw the development of the role-playing game based on A Song of Ice and Fire, which was published as A Game of Thrones (2005).[1]: 338  He was creative director on the award-winning A Game of Thrones RPG.[2] He has contributed to more than two dozen books, including two short-story anthologies (based on Silver Age Sentinels), and several books for White Wolf.[2] He has also worked as a web content writer for NCsoft, crafting Web and event fiction for a series of massively multi-player online games, including City of Heroes, Dungeon Runners, and Exteel.[2] After living for a year in Texas, Scoble returned to Canada to work freelance and work on writing screenplays.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702- 58-7.
  2. ^ a b c d e Scoble, Jesse (2007). "A Game of Thrones". In Lowder, James (ed.). Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Green Ronin Publishing. pp. 126–129. ISBN 978-1-932442-96-0.