Alexander Fennell is a game designer who has worked primarily on

role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...

Career

Alex Fennell was a Captain in the British army. When he was on his way out of the army in late 2000, and was considering his next career, Fennell met

Matthew Sprange Matthew Sprange is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Matthew Sprange met with Alex Fennell in a pub in Swindon, England in late 2000; Sprange suggested starting a game company, but Fennell instead joined a ...

in a pub in

Swindon, England Swindon () is a town and unitary authority with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Wiltshire, England. As of the 2021 Census, the population of Swindon was 201,669, making it the largest town in the county. The Swindon un ...

, who suggested starting a game company. Fennell was unconvinced and instead joined a 3G (third generation) mobile communication company. 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. 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. 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. Fennell left Mongoose in 2009.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fennell, Alex British Army officers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Role-playing game designers Year of birth missing (living people)