Jeff Dee

Jeff Dee 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 18. He also designed the Villains and Vigilantes superhero game. He was a co-host on The Atheist Experience and Non-Prophets atheism advocacy podcasts.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>Jebens, Harley (September 21, 1995). "Game central", Austin American-Statesman, p. 38.</ref> The game was published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1979.<ref name="designers">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp Dee and Herman persuaded Scott Bizar to produce a second edition, which was published in 1982.<ref name="designers"/>Template:Rp Dee came up with the idea of creating a role-playing game based on cartoons when he, Greg Costikyan, and other designers were discussing which genres had no role-playing game systems yet; although they agreed that it would be impossible for such a game to be designed, a few years later Costikyan designed Toon as a full game with the assistance of Warren Spector.<ref name="designers"/>Template:Rp

Dee was the youngest artist in TSR history when he began working for them at the age of 18.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1997, with his partner 'Manda, Dee founded UNIgames, a publisher of role-playing, board, and computer games.Template:Cn Dee designed a new superhero role-playing game originally titled Advanced Villains and Vigilantes, which was ultimately published as Living Legends in 2005.<ref name="designers"/>Template:Rp In 2009, he co-founded Nemesis Games, developers of an MMO named Gargantua.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Dee has long been an advocate for the role-playing game industry.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Advocacy of atheism

In addition to his artistic and game-related work, Dee is an outspoken atheist and transhumanist.<ref>Template:CitationTemplate:Dl</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

External links

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• A Jeff Dee art gallery, including most of his AD&D work
• What Worries Jeff Dee?, Dee's blog