Ray Turney 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

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Career

Hendrik Jan Pfeiffer, Art Turney and Ray Turney originally planned to publish information on the fictional world of

Glorantha Glorantha is a fantasy world created by Greg Stafford. Overview It was first introduced in the board game '' White Bear and Red Moon'' (1975) by Chaosium and then in a number of other board, roleplaying and computer games, including ''RuneQ ...

from '' White Bear and Red Moon'' as a supplement for ''

Dungeons & Dragons ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by TSR (company)#Tactical ...

'', but Greg Stafford wanted an original role-playing game created for Glorantha. Ideas for an original gaming system for Glorantha came about during a conversation between

Steve Perrin Stephen Herbert Perrin (January 22, 1946 – August 13, 2021) was an American game designer and technical writer/editor, best known for creating the tabletop role-playing game ''RuneQuest'' for Chaosium. Early life and education Perrin earned a ...

, Steve Henderson and Warren James at a Greyhaven party, and they were soon joined by Ray Turney from the original team. Perrin and Turney designed ''

RuneQuest ''RuneQuest'' (commonly abbreviated as RQ) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson (game designer), Steve Henderson, and Warren James, and set in Greg Stafford (game designer), Gre ...

'' which was published by

Chaosium Chaosium Inc. ( ) is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford (game designer), Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include ''Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game), Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fic ...

in 1978. The rules system for ''RuneQuest'' was created by Perrin, Turney, Henderson and James. Chaosium considered publishing ''Arduin'' in 1976, but found the game too complex and derivative of ''

'', and according to author Stu Horvath in 2023 "it took a couple of years before designers Steve Perrin and Ray Turney struck upon the right formula for the RPG that would become ''RuneQuest''. The result was a radical departure from RPG norms."

Works

*''Creatures of Chaos 1: Scorpion Men & Broos'' (1978) *''Trolls & Trollkin'' (1978) *''Militia & Mercenaries'' (1979) *'' RuneQuest Monsters'' (1987)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Turney, Ray American game designers Chaosium game designers Living people Year of birth missing (living people)