Simon J Rogers is a

software developer Software development is the process of designing and Implementation, implementing a software solution to Computer user satisfaction, satisfy a User (computing), user. The process is more encompassing than Computer programming, programming, wri ...

and

publisher Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

who has worked primarily on cartography software and

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

Simon Rogers and Mark Fulford founded the company ProFantasy Software in 1993 to publish ''

Campaign Cartographer Campaign Cartographer is a Windows map creation program created by ProFantasy Software originally in 1993. Description The program was designed to draw maps for role playing and miniature war games. The CAD engine is based on FastCAD, although mo ...

'' (1993) as a professional map-making program marketed to role-playing game players.

Pelgrane Press Pelgrane Press Ltd is a British role-playing game (pen and paper), role-playing game publishing company based in London and founded in 1999. It is co-owned by Simon J Rogers and Cat Tobin. It currently produces GUMSHOE System RPGs, ''13th Age'', ...

was formed in 1999, and was initially owned by Rogers, ProFantasy Software, and

Sasha Bilton Sacha, Sasha, or Sascha may refer to: People * Sasha (name), includes list of people with the name and the variants Sascha or Sacha Musicians * Sacha (singer), born Sacha Visagie, Canadian singer and songwriter * Sasha (DJ) (born 1969), born Alex ...

. Rogers acquired the license to the ''

Dying Earth ''Dying Earth'' is a speculative fiction series by the American author Jack Vance, comprising four books originally published from 1950 to 1984. Some have been called picaresque. They vary from short story collections to a fix-up (novel creat ...

'' world by

Jack Vance John Holbrook Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. He also wrote several mystery novels under pen names, including Ellery Queen. Vance won the World Fantasy Award for Life Ach ...

for use by Pelgrane Press, which published ''

The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game ''The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game'' is a tabletop role-playing game published by Pelgrane Press in 2001. Description ''The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game'' is an adaptation of Jack Vance's ''Dying Earth'' novel series. The game situates players ...

'' in 2001.

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