James Desborough (game designer)

James "Grim" Desborough is a British game designer, author and blogger who has worked primarily on role-playing games, as well as card games, board games and social computer games.


James Desborough
James Desborough
NationalityBritish
Other namesGrim
OccupationGame designer, author, blogger

Career

James Desborough wrote The Munchkin's Guide to Powergaming in 2000/2001,[1] winning an Origins Award for that work along with his co-author Steve Mortimer.[2] Desborough was the co-author of CS1: Cannibal Sector One and for a short time he was the SLA Industries line editor.[3] Desborough is also the owner of Postmortem Studios.[3] Due to Desborough's connections with Angus Abranson, Postmortem Studios was one of Cubicle 7's early partnerships.[3] He later became creative director at Chronicle City, Abranson's new venture.[4]

In 2017 he released a licensed role-playing game based on John Norman's fantasy series Gor, which also included art by Michael Manning.[5]

Desborough's work was included in Red Phone Box,[6] and in The Mammoth Book of Erotic Romance and Domination.[7] He also self-publishes.

His D&D design work includes Monster Manual V (2007) and City of Stormreach (2008).

Reception

Desborough has been quoted or used as a pundit on men's issues in various places, including The Stream on Al Jazeera.[8] Some of Desborough's work has been criticised for being "hateful, violent and misogynistic", leading critics to petition game companies to drop his work.[9][10]

gollark: I disagree somewhat with your disagreement. The memes you see have been filtered through a lot of people and websites before reaching you and ones which weren't sufficiently memey weeded out. Popular memes provide some insight into what people like.
gollark: This is also deductive, not inductive.
gollark: I don't think this is technically correct either. They can manipulate quantum states in various ways to do some operations faster, not magically accelerate everything.
gollark: 2026.
gollark: Is 5D chess actually multithreaded?

References
  1. The Munchkin's Guide to Powergaming: ISBN 1-55634-347-7
  2. "Origins Awards 2000". Archived from the original on October 7, 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-07.
  3. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. p. 430. ISBN 978-1-907702- 58-7.
  4. "Chronicle City appoints "Grim" James Desborough". 13 February 2013.
  5. grimachu (2017-04-23). "#RPG – The Gor RPG is RELEASED!". Postmortem Studios. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
  6. "Ghostwoods Books". Archived from the original on 2014-05-28. Retrieved 2014-06-21.
  7. ISBN 0762452250
  8. raisa (2 June 2014). "Through men's eyes".
  9. "Interview with RPG designer James Desborough". 24 June 2012.
  10. "Chronicle City appoints "Grim" James Desborough". 13 February 2013.
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