Jason L Blair is an American writer and

game design 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 ...

er, best known for his work on the roleplaying game ''

Little Fears ''Little Fears - The Roleplaying Game of Childhood Terror'' is a role-playing game published in 2001 by Key 20 Publishing. The book was written by Jason L Blair, featuring illustrations by Drew Baker, Dimitrios "Jim" Denaxas, Veronica V. Jones, ...

''.

Career

After the release of the award-winning tabletop roleplaying game

in 2001, Blair wrote for various other publishers and published an urban magic game through Key 20 titled Wyrd is Bond. Blair's Key 20 Publishing and Adept Press sponsored a booth for The Forge at

Gen Con Gen Con is the largest tabletop game convention in North America by both attendance and number of events. It features traditional pen-and-paper, board, and card games, including role-playing games, miniatures wargames, live action role-playing ...

in 2002 to appeal to enthusiasts of indie role-playing games. He eventually joined Human Head Studios as their Adventure Games Director where he led the development and publication of the

board game Board games are tabletop games that typically use . These pieces are moved or placed on a pre-marked board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well. Many board games feature a ...

Frankenstein's Children, the

card game A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker). A small number of card g ...

Villainy, and the 1950s

B-Movie A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial motion picture. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double feature ...

roleplaying and Normal, Texas while also assisting on the script for the video game

Prey Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill the ...

. After leaving Human Head, Blair primarily freelanced for a variety of video game studios. He also continued to develop and publish his own tabletop work such as Streets of Bedlam (using the

Savage Worlds ''Savage Worlds'' is a role-playing game written by Shane Lacy Hensley and published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group. The game emphasizes speed of play and reduced preparation over realism or detail. The game received the 2003 Origin Gamers' Ch ...

system) and Little Fears Nightmare Edition. In 2012, he joined video game developer Volition Inc where he worked on

Saints Row IV ''Saints Row IV'' is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Volition and published by Deep Silver. It is the sequel to 2011's '' Saints Row: The Third'', the fourth installment of the ''Saints Row'' series, and the final main installment in ...

, and

Agents of Mayhem ''Agents of Mayhem'' is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Volition and published by Deep Silver. The game was released in August 2017 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The game's themes are based on Satur ...

. After a brief stint as Creative Director at Funcom’s US office, he joined High Voltage Software in 2019. His work has been nominated for multiple awards from IGN, ENnie, Indie RPG Awards, and Origins Awards.

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Streets of Bedlam
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blair, Jason L American fantasy writers American science fiction writers Living people People from Painesville, Ohio Role-playing game designers Year of birth missing (living people)