Jeff Dee



















Jeff Dee

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Jeff Dee on The Atheist Experience TV show, January 4, 2009.

Born
Jeff Dee


(1961-05-15) May 15, 1961 (age 57)[citation needed]
United States
Nationality American
Known for
Fantasy art, illustration

Jeff Dee (born May 15, 1961[citation needed]) is an American artist and game designer. He was the youngest artist in the history of pioneering role-playing game company TSR when he began his work at the age of eighteen. He also designed the Villains and Vigilantes superhero game. He was a co-host on the Atheist Experience and Non-Prophets atheism advocacy podcasts.




Contents






  • 1 Biography


  • 2 Advocacy of atheism


  • 3 References


  • 4 External links





Biography


In the late 1970s, while Dee was still a teenager, he and Jack Herman created Villains and Vigilantes, the first complete superhero role-playing game.[1] The game was published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1979.[2]:73 Dee and Herman convinced Scott Bizar to produce a second edition, which was published in 1982.[2]:75 Dee came up with the idea of creating a role-playing game based on cartoons when he, Greg Costikyan, and several other designers were talking about genres for which game systems had not yet been designed; although they agreed that such a game would be impossible to design, a few years later Costikyan designed Toon as a full game with the assistance of Warren Spector.[2]:104


Jeff Dee was the youngest artist in TSR history when he began his work at the age of eighteen.[3] In 1997, with his partner 'Manda, Dee founded UNIgames, a publisher of role-playing, board and computer games. Dee created a new superhero roleplaying game called Living Legends in 2005, although the project was originally titled Advanced Villains and Vigilantes.[2]:77 In 2009, he co-founded Nemesis Games, developers of an MMO named Gargantua.[4]



Advocacy of atheism


In addition to his artistic and game-related work, Dee is an outspoken atheist and transhumanist.[5] He has been the host of a bi-weekly Internet podcast called The Non-Prophets and a former host of a live, weekly, public-access television program, The Atheist Experience.[6]



References





  1. ^ Jebens, Harley (September 21, 1995). "Game central", Austin American-Statesman, p. 38.


  2. ^ abcd Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ http://www.blackgate.com/2010/09/29/art-evolution-3-jeff-dee/


  4. ^ "Nemesis Games web site". Nemesisgames.net. Archived from the original on 2012-06-06. Retrieved 2012-06-15.


  5. ^ Rahe, Emily (July 11, 2001), "Atheists blast faith-based initiative as an unconstitutional "religion tax"", The Washington Times, p. A9 – via Highbeam Research (subscription required)


  6. ^ The Atheist Experience show list




External links




  • "Jeff Dee". Pen & Paper RPG database. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2011-08-22.


  • Jeff Dee's profile at MobyGames


  • A Jeff Dee art gallery, including most of his AD&D work


  • What Worries Jeff Dee?, Dee's blog










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