Jeff Perren is an American

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, a hobby shop owner, and an early associate of

Gary Gygax Ernest Gary Gygax ( ; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering tabletop role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') with Dave Arneson. In the 1960s, Gygax creat ...

Career

Jeff Perren was an early member of the Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association along with

, Terry Kuntz and Rob Kuntz, Ernie Gygax, Mike Reese, Leon Tucker, and Don Kaye. Perren created his own set of rules for '' Siege of Bodenburg'', and shared these rules with Gygax. Early in 1970, the LGTSA purchased a considerable number of Elastolin figures, which motivated Perren to develop four pages of his own rules for these miniatures which focused on mass combat. Perren and Gygax created this set of medieval miniatures rules and called it ''

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'', publishing the first set of these rules in a fanzine for the Castle & Crusade Society known as ''The Domesday Book''. Perren and Gygax also designed the miniatures game '' Cavaliers and Roundheads'' (1973), which would be the first game published by Gygax's new company TSR.

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