Ann Dupuis is the owner of

Grey Ghost Press Grey Ghost Press was founded in 1994 by Ann Dupuis after spending time working on the '' Fudge RPG'' system by Steffan O'Sullivan. She initially created the company as Wild Mule Games in 1994, incorporated her company the following year as Ghost ...

and designer of a number of

GURPS The ''Generic Universal Role Playing System'', or ''GURPS'', is a tabletop role-playing game system published by Steve Jackson Games. The system is designed to run any genre using the same core mechanics. The core rules were first written by St ...

supplements.

Career

Dupuis began working as a game designer in 1991, first working on ''

'' books for

Steve Jackson Games Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and (until 2019) the gaming magazine ''Pyramid''. History Founded in 1980, six years after the cr ...

. Dupuis also did some design work for TSR's ''

Dungeons & Dragons ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by TSR (company)#Tactical ...

'' game ('' Night Howlers'', the ''Poor Wizard's Almanac'' series, and '' Joshuan's Almanac & Book of Facts''). Dupuis spent time working on the ''

Fudge ''Fudge'' is a generic role-playing game system for use in freeform role-playing games. The name "''FUDGE''" was once an acronym for ''Freeform Universal Donated'' (later, ''Do-it-yourself'') ''Gaming Engine'' and, though the acronym has since b ...

'' RPG system by her friend

Steffan O'Sullivan Steffan O'Sullivan is the author of several role-playing game books. Career Steffan O'Sullivan was a writer for '' GURPS'' products including '' GURPS Swashbucklers'' (1990) and '' GURPS Bunnies & Burrows'' (1992). He designed the '' FUDGE'' role ...

, and her promotion of the system and encouragement for O'Sullivan's 1995 revision contributed to ''Fudges popularity. Dupuis created her company as Wild Mule Games in 1994, intending to use ''Fudge'' as her core game, and the following year she incorporated her company as Ghostdancer Press, and then renamed the company to

. Her book ''Another Fine Mess'' was nominated for an Origins award. Dupuis has worked at the computer software company ResearchWare, providing software testing, documentation, and technical support for HyperRESEARCH since the company was incorporated in 1991, and she also manages the company's administrative side. Dupuis also works as a certified professional dog trainer and behavior consultant for her company Your Dream Dog.http://yourdreamdog.com/

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