Alexander Fennell is a

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who has worked primarily on

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Career

Alex Fennell was a Captain in the British army. When he was leaving the army in late 2000 and thinking what career path to take, 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 Swindon, England pub in late 2000; Sprange offered to start a game company with him, but Fennell instead went ...

in a

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pub, and Sprange offered to start a game company with him. Fennell was uncertain about this suggestion and instead went to work for a 3G mobile communication company. After six months of working in that field, Fennell had become interested in having a job allowing more creativity, and when Sprange contacted him again about forming the game company

Mongoose Publishing Mongoose Publishing is a British manufacturer of role-playing games, miniatures, and card games, publishing material since 2001. Its licenses include products based on the science fiction properties '' Traveller'', ''Judge Dredd'', and ''Parano ...

to publish adventures using the d20 license from

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, Fennell agreed and joined him. Thanks to good sales on their first product, ''The Slayer's Guide to Hobgoblins'' (2001), Fennell left his day job and became the first employee of Mongoose Publishing with Sprange joining as an employee a month later. Fennell used his saved army wages to make certain the company was able pay to publish a book per month, until they began to receive payments back from their 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)