Ethan Skemp is an author and developer of role-playing games.

Early life and education

Ethan Skemp attended the

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university, research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland, California, Oakland, the system is co ...

, where he was a member of a game club attended by several other students who would become role-playing game writers and artists.

Career

Skemp is best known for his work for White Wolf, Inc. He has worked on numerous titles for '' Werewolf: The Apocalypse'' and '' Werewolf: The Forsaken'', and was the designer of ''Werewolf: The Forsaken'', along with other games of the new

World of Darkness ''World of Darkness'' is a series of tabletop role-playing games, originally created by Mark Rein-Hagen for White Wolf Publishing. It began as an annual line of five games in 1991–1995, with ''Vampire: The Masquerade'', ''Werewolf: The Apocaly ...

. He was one of the last line developers working at White Wolf before its demise. Skemp was one of the authors on '' Vampire: The Dark Ages'' (1996). Skemp and

Justin Achilli Justin Achilli is best known as an author and developer for White Wolf, Inc. Career Justin Achilli began working at White Wolf Publishing, White Wolf in 1995. Achilli has contributed as an author for numerous ''Vampire: The Masquerade'' and ''Vamp ...

designed '' Werewolf: The Wild West'' (1997), which was described as the "Savage West version of ''Werewolf: The Apocalypse''". Skemp was involved in ''

Exalted ''Exalted'' is a high fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally published by White Wolf Publishing in July 2001. The game is currently in its third edition. It was originally created by Robert Hatch, Justin Achilli and Stephan Wieck, a ...

'' (2001), for which a reviewer noted that as he was part of the creative team responsible for the resurgence of the

games, it was to be expected that the material in ''Exalted'' would be well written, in easy-to-understand and straightforward English. Skemp was one of the authors on the

Sword and Sorcery Studios Sword and Sorcery Studios (S&SS) was an imprint of White Wolf, Inc., used to publish its d20 System & Open Gaming License material in from 2000 to 2008. The imprint also acted as publisher for other small press game developers, such as Monte Co ...

release ''Player's Guide to Wizards, Bards and Sorcerers'' (2003), and he wrote the wizards section. Skemp was one of the designers on '' Werewolf: The Forsaken'' (2005). Skemp was one of the writers and content designers on the video game '' Lichdom: Battlemage''.

Works

*''Warriors of the Apocalypse'' (1996) *'' Ghouls: Fatal Addiction'' (1997) *''Players Guide to the Garou'' (developer, 2003) *''Book of Auspcies'' (developer, 2003) *''Tribebook: Silver Fangs, Revised Edition (developer, 2003)'' *''Past Lives'' (developer, 2003)

References

External links

* American role-playing designers Living people White Wolf game designers Year of birth missing (living people) {{rpg-stub