Jeffrey Barber 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

role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as 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 ...

Career

Jeff Barber was a gamer from Columbia, Missouri, who joined the volunteer staff of

Pagan Publishing Pagan Publishing is a role-playing game publishing company founded by John Scott Tynes in 1990. It began by publishing a '' Call of Cthulhu'' role-playing game fanzine, '' The Unspeakable Oath''. In 1994, the company moved from Columbia, Missouri ...

and collaborated with

John Scott Tynes John Scott Tynes (born 1971) is an American writer best known for his work on role-playing games such as ''Unknown Armies'', '' Delta Green'', '' Puppetland'', and for his company, Tynes Cowan Corporation. Under its imprint, Pagan Publishing, T ...

on adventures and other games. He co-wrote "Grace under pressure" with Pagan publishing's staff, the book is currently out of print. Pagan Publishing later moved to Seattle in 1994, so Barber and others left Pagan and founded

Biohazard Games Biohazard Games is a company located in Columbia, Missouri that publishes role-playing games, most of them designed by Jeff Barber and Jim Heivilin. The company tends to work closely with Fantasy Flight Games. History Many Biohazard employees o ...

, publishers of '' Blue Planet'' (1997).

Fantasy Flight Games Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) is a game developer based in Roseville, Minnesota, United States, that creates and publishes role-playing game, role-playing, board game, board, card game, card, and dice game, dice games. As of 2014, it is a division of ...

spent 2000 publishing a new line of role-playing game products in the form of a new edition of ''Blue Planet'' from Barber and Greg Benage. He is one of the author of the

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campaign setting.

Bibliography

Killer Crosshairs, Biohazard Games 1995.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barber, Jeff American role-playing designers Living people People from Columbia, Missouri Year of birth missing (living people)