Ed Stark is a

game designer Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in ...

who has worked primarily on

role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...

Career

Ed Stark began his career at

West End Games West End Games (WEG) was a company that made board, role-playing, and war games. It was founded by Daniel Scott Palter in 1974 in New York City, but later moved to Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Its product lines included ''Star Wars'', ''Paranoia'', ...

, where he wrote for the ''

TORG ''Torg'' is a cinematic cross-genre tabletop role-playing game created by Greg Gorden and Bill Slavicsek, with art by Daniel Horne. It was first published by West End Games (WEG) in 1990. Game resolution uses a single twenty-sided die, ''d ...

'' and ''

Star Wars ''Star Wars'' is an American epic space opera multimedia franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon. The franchise has been expanded into various film ...

'' lines. He was the main developer behind the

MasterBook ''Masterbook'' is a generic role-playing game that was published by West End Games (WEG) in 1994. Description The generic rules of ''Masterbook'', which do not have a specific campaign setting, use rules from both WEG's multi-genre role-playing ...

system and the so-called "Fifth edition" of ''

Paranoia Paranoia is an instinct or thought process that is believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy conce ...

''. After being hired by

Wizards of the Coast Wizards of the Coast LLC (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games. It is currently a subsidi ...

, Stark was part of the SCRAMJET team, led by Richard Baker, with designers

James Wyatt James Wyatt (3 August 1746 – 4 September 1813) was an English architect, a rival of Robert Adam in the neoclassical and neo-Gothic styles. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1785 and was its president from 1805 to 1806. Early life W ...

, Matthew Sernett,

Michele Carter Michele Carter is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Michele Carter was part of the SCRAMJET team, led by Richard Baker, with designers James Wyatt, Matthew Sernett, Ed Stark, Stacy Longstreet Stacy Longst ...

Stacy Longstreet Stacy Longstreet is an art director who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Stacy Longstreet was part of the SCRAMJET team, led by Richard Baker, with designers James Wyatt, Matthew Sernett, Ed Stark Ed Stark is a game designe ...

, and Chris Perkins; this team was responsible for updating the fictional setting as it would be used for the fourth edition of ''

Dungeons & Dragons ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (T ...

'' which was in development. His ''D&D'' design work includes ''

Legends of the Hero-Kings ''Legends of the Hero-Kings'' is an adventure module for the 2nd edition of the '' Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the ro ...

'' (1996), ''Children of the Night: Ghosts'' (1997), ''Children of the Night: The Created'' (1999), '' Complete Warrior'' (2003), '' Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss'' (2006), '' Fantastic Locations: Dragondown Grotto'' (2006), '' Barrow of the Forgotten King'' (2007), '' Fantastic Locations: City of Peril'' (2007), and '' Complete Champion'' (2007). He also wrote the novel '' City of Fire'' under the shared pseudonym

T.H. Lain T. H. Lain was a collective pseudonym used by nine separate authors writing under Wizards of the Coast's '' Dungeons & Dragons'' novels imprint. According to Peter Archer, WotC's Director of Publishing, the decision to credit the ''Dungeons & Dr ...

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