Gerard Christopher Klug is an American

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who has worked primarily on

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Career

Trained as a theatrical lighting designer, Gerry (Chris) Klug worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theater, opera, and toured with various 1970s rock bands. He won two New Jersey Critic's Circle Awards for lighting designs at the New Jersey Theater Forum. Klug then began writing adventures for

Simulations Publications Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) was an American publisher of board wargames and related magazines, particularly its flagship ''Strategy & Tactics'', in the 1970s and early 1980s. It produced an enormous number of games and introduced innovat ...

's line of role-playing games. He assisted with the design of ''

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'', ''Horror Hotel'', '' Damocles Mission'', and the second edition of ''

DragonQuest ''Dragonquest'' is a science fantasy novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. It is the sequel to '' Dragonflight'', set seven years later and the second book in the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' series. ''Dragonquest'' was first published ...

''. Klug and

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discussed creating an espionage role-playing game while working as designers at SPI; after SPI was purchased by TSR in 1982, eight SPI employees quit and

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hired them to form their

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subsidiary. Klug began working on his espionage design again, and when Victory Games acquired a James Bond license the game became ''

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'' (1983). For a time, he was also design director for Victory Games.

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, with David J. Ritchie and Klug, designed the adventure ''

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'' (1988) for ''

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'', although the adventure was also compatible with ''

''. Klug then began a career in the computer game field, with his credits including '' Star Trek DS9: Dominion Wars'', ''

Europa Universalis ''Europa Universalis'' is a Grand strategy game, grand strategy video game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published in 2000 by Strategy First. Development The game was originally based on a French board game of the Europa Universali ...

'', ''

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'', and '' Aidyn Chronicles: First Mage''. From 2001 through 2004, Klug served as creative director for EA's MMORPG, ''

Earth & Beyond ''Earth & Beyond'' was a science fiction massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Westwood Studios and published by Electronic Arts (EA). The game was released in September 2002 in the United States. EA shut down ''E ...

''. Klug was the creative director for ''

Stargate Worlds ''Stargate Worlds'' (abbreviated as ''SGW'') was to be a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) video game, but it was put on hold and never released. It was developed by Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment (CME) in association with M ...

'' and the creative consultant for '' Stargate: Resistance''.

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External links

Gerry Klug :: Pen & Paper RPG Databasearchive
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