Ross A. Isaacs is a

game designer 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 ...

who has worked primarily on

role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, 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 these roles within ...

s. He had done a scattering of freelance work for

Alderac Entertainment Group Alderac Entertainment Group, or AEG, is a publisher of role-playing game, board game, and collectible card game products. AEG was formed by Jolly Blackburn in 1993 and is based in the city of Ontario, California. Prior to getting into their cur ...

and

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

before doing more extensive work for

Holistic Designs Holistic Design, Inc. (HDI), is an American game company. It was founded in 1992 as Several Dudes Holistic Gaming. The company has developed many computer games in its history, including ''Battles of Destiny'', '' Hammer of the Gods'', ''Final Li ...

. Isaacs contributed to Chaosium's ''

Nephilim The Nephilim (; ''Nəfīlīm'') are mysterious beings or people in the Hebrew Bible who are large and strong. The word ''Nephilim'' is loosely translated as ''giants'' in some translations of the Hebrew Bible, but left untranslated in others. ...

'' line, and ended up at

Last Unicorn Games Last Unicorn Games (LUG) was a game publisher owned by Christian Moore that was eventually purchased by Wizards of the Coast. Last Unicorn developed the collectible card games ''Dune'' (1997) and '' Heresy: Kingdom Come'' (1995) as well as the 1 ...

(LUG) shortly thereafter. As a new employee at LUG, he did the initial work on the "Icon" system for their ''Star Trek'' games, and after the design of ''Icon'' was done, he was made line developer for the '' Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game'' (1998). Isaacs remained with Last Unicorn when the company was bought first by

Wizards of the Coast Wizards of the Coast LLC (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games. It is currently a subsidi ...

and then by Decipher, Inc. and in February 2001 Decipher offered the remaining Last Unicorn staff jobs in their new roleplaying department. Isaacs eventually returned to New York.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Isaacs, Ross Living people Role-playing game designers Year of birth missing (living people)