Dale A. Donovan is a

game designer Game design is the process of creating and shaping the mechanics, systems, rules, and gameplay of a game. Game design processes apply to board games, card games, dice games, casino games, role-playing games, sports, Wargame (video games), war ga ...

who has worked primarily on

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Career

Dale Donovan began working in the hobby-gaming industry in 1989. A past editor of Dragon magazine, Donovan worked for

TSR, Inc. TSR, Inc. was an American game publishing company, best known as the original publisher of '' Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D''). Its earliest incarnation, Tactical Studies Rules, was founded in October 1973 by Gary Gygax and Don Kaye. Gygax had bee ...

Wizards of the Coast Wizards of the Coast LLC (WotC or Wizards) is an American game Publishing, publisher, most of which are based on fantasy and List of science fiction themes, science-fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail game stores. In 1999, toy ...

, and Hasbro for more than 12 years, during which time he had been an editor of ''

Dragon A dragon is a Magic (supernatural), magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but European dragon, dragons in Western cultures since the Hi ...

'' magazine, spent four years on the

Forgotten Realms ''Forgotten Realms'' is a campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') fantasy role-playing game. Commonly referred to by players and game designers as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setti ...

campaign setting team, had a stint as a managing editor, and did work as a writer or editor on every roleplaying game line produced by the company during his tenure. He went freelance in 2002, and has worked for

Green Ronin Green Ronin Publishing is an American company based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 2000 by Chris Pramas and Nicole Lindroos, they have published several role-playing game–related products. They won several awards for their games includin ...

Upper Deck The Upper Deck Company, LLC (colloquially as Upper Deck and Upper Deck Authenticated, Ltd. in the UK) is a private company primarily known for producing trading cards. It was founded in 1988. Its headquarters are in Carlsbad, California, United ...

White Wolf The Arctic wolf (''Canis lupus arctos''), also known as the white wolf, polar wolf, and the Arctic grey wolf, is a subspecies of grey wolf native to the High Arctic tundra of Canada's Queen Elizabeth Islands, from Melville Island to Ellesme ...

/Sword & Sorcery,

Sovereign Press Sovereign Press, Incorporated is a publisher and distributor of role-playing games based in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. It was founded in 1998 by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin and is one of two companies that Weis owns. Games produced Sovereign P ...

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 ...

Guardians of Order Guardians of Order was a Canadian company founded in 1996 by Mark C. MacKinnon in Guelph, Ontario. The company's business output consisted of role-playing games (RPGs). Their first game is the anime inspired '' Big Eyes, Small Mouth''. In 2006 Gu ...

, and the

Valar Project The Valar (; singular Vala) are characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. They are "angelic powers" or "gods" subordinate to the one God (Eru Ilúvatar). The ''Ainulindalë'' describes how some of the Ainur choose to enter the w ...

, among others.

Works

His ''

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 ...

'' design work has included '' Monstrous Compendium Spelljammer Appendix'' (1990), ''Monstrous Compendium Forgotten Realms Appendix II'' (1991), ''

Unsung Heroes ''Unsung Heroes'', also known as ''Unknown Heroes'' or more literally as ''Nameless Heroes'', is a Cinema of North Korea, North Korean war drama mini-series about a spy in Seoul during the Korean War. Over twenty hours long, it was filmed and rel ...

'' (1992), '' Player's Option: Skills & Powers'' (1995), ''

Planes of Conflict ''Planes of Conflict'' is an accessory for the second edition of the ''Dungeons & Dragons, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game, published in 1995. Contents ''Planes of Conflict'' contains six maps and five manuals for use wit ...

'' (1995), '' Dark Sun Campaign Setting, Expanded and Revised'' (1995), '' Jakandor, Island of War'' (1997), '' Children of the Night: Ghosts'' (1997), '' Cult of the Dragon'' (1998), ''

Jakandor, Land of Legend ''Jakandor, Land of Legend'' is a role-playing game supplement published by TSR for the second edition of ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons''. It is the third of three supplements about the Isle of Jakandor. Contents The first sourcebook about Jaka ...

'' (1998), and ''

Jakandor, Isle of Destiny ''Jakandor, Isle of Destiny'' is a role-playing game supplement published by TSR for the second edition of ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons''. It is the second of three supplements about the Isle of Jakandor. Contents The first sourcebook about Ja ...

'' (1998).

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