Jesse Scoble
{{short description|Canadian game designer}}
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Jesse Scoble is a Canadian game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career
Jesse Scoble was a gamemaster for Mark C. MacKinnon, and Scoble became an employee of Guardians of Order a few years after MacKinnon started the game company.{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}{{rp|336}} Scoble designed the El-Hazard Role-Playing Game (2001), one of the games based on licensed properties by Guardians of Order.{{rp|336}} The superhero role-playing game Silver Age Sentinels (2002) was written by MacKinnon, Jeff Mackintosh and Scoble, with Steve Kenson and developed by Lucien Soulban.{{rp|337}} He wrote the world bible for the Silver Age Sentinels superhero game line.{{Cite book | contribution=A Game of Thrones | title=Hobby Games: The 100 Best | last=Scoble | first=Jesse | editor-last=Lowder | editor-first=James | editor-link=James Lowder | publisher=Green Ronin Publishing | year=2007 | pages=126–129 | isbn=978-1-932442-96-0}} Scoble oversaw the development of the role-playing game based on A Song of Ice and Fire, which was published as A Game of Thrones (2005).{{rp|338}} He was creative director on the award-winning A Game of Thrones RPG. He has contributed to more than two dozen books, including two short-story anthologies (based on Silver Age Sentinels), and several books for White Wolf. He has also worked as a web content writer for NCsoft, crafting Web and event fiction for a series of massively multi-player online games, including City of Heroes, Dungeon Runners, and Exteel. After living for a year in Texas, Scoble returned to Canada to work freelance and work on writing screenplays.
References
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External links
- [http://jscoble.com/ Home page]
- [http://www.pen-paper.net//rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=1419 Jesse Scoble :: Pen & Paper RPG Database] [https://web.archive.org/web/20070519230114/http://www.pen-paper.net//rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=1419 archive]
- [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8581442/?ref%20=fn%20al%20nm%201 IMDB Credits]
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Category:Canadian game designers
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)