Joshua A.C. Newman is an American role-playing game designer.

Career

Newman is the designer of the

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s Under the Bed (2005), Shock: Social Science Fiction (2006), Beowulf (2008), Shock: Human Contact (2010), and The Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze (2016). In 2012, Joshua A.C. Newman worked with

Vincent Baker David Vincent Baker is a designer and theorist of tabletop role-playing games and the owner of indie role-playing games publisher Lumpley Games, which also hosts the archives of The Forge. He and his wife Meguey Baker designed ''Apocalypse World ...

on a new version of the ''Mechaton'' rules as ''Mobile Frame Zero 001: Rapid Attack'' (2012), and Newman was able to use this for a successful

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. ''Rapid Attack'' was followed by ''Mobile Frame Zero 002: Intercept Orbit'', a carrier-based spaceship battle game in the same universe.

Roleplaying bibliography

* Under the Bed * Shock: Social Science Fiction * Shock: Human Contact * Beowulf Newman has also contributed to the book design of several other indie roleplaying games. * ''

Dogs in the Vineyard ''Dogs in the Vineyard'' is an independently published role-playing game published by Lumpley Games in 2004 that is loosely based on the history of the Mormons. Setting The game is set in "a West that never quite was"—loosely based on the ...

'' * ''The Mountain Witch'' * ''Bliss Stage'' * ''Misspent Youth''

References

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