Derek Pearcy is a game designer, writer, editor and

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er known for his work on

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Career

Pearcy served as the editor of ''

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'' for its first two print issues, in 1993. He worked 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 ...

in the 1990s. Pearcy was working as a staff member of Steve Jackson Games when they chose him to develop their own version of the French role-playing game ''

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''. SJG's ''

'' was published in 1997. ''In Nomine'' won the

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for ''Best Graphic Presentation of a Roleplaying Game, Adventure, or Supplement of 1997''. He was a special guest at HexaCon 9 in 1999.

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