Stephen Chenault

Stephen Chenault is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Troll Lord Games.[1]

Stephen Chenault
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer
Known forTroll Lord Games, Castles & Crusades
Home townLittle Rock, AR

Career

Stephen Chenault and his brother Davis Chenault wanted to publish a 300-page leather bound campaign setting.[2]:378 When Stephen learned that Mac Golden was thinking of publishing a gaming magazine called The Seeker, they formed Troll Lord Games in 1999 with Davis Chenault.[1] They then published a set of "universal" adventures, and they prepared three of them for Gen Con 33: After Winter's Dark (2000), a 24-page book describing the campaign setting of Erde; The Mortality of Green (2000), an Erde adventure; Vakhund: Into the Unknown (2000), an adventure for the campaign setting of Inzae and also the first part of a trilogy.[2]:378 Stephen Chenault authored A Lion in the Ropes (2001), a d20 mystery and the first d20 adventure from Troll Lord Games.[2]:378

The Chenaults also published their campaign setting in the Codex of Erde (2001), although it was not quite 200 pages and not leather-bound.[2]:378 Gary Gygax wrote to the Chenaults to thank them for their gift of Troll Lord's first RPG supplements at Gen Con 33, and their conversation eventually led to Gygax offering to write books for Troll Lord.[2]:378

Gary Gygax at Gen Con in 2003. He is sitting in the Troll Lord Games booth with Stephen Chenault.

When Troll Lord Games published their Castles & Crusades role-playing game, the Chenaults reprinted some of their classics, such as I1: Vakhund: Into the Unknown (2006).[2]:379 When Gygax died in 2008, Troll Lord Games lost the licenses to all of his works, but the Chenaults continue to remember his legacy and his part in the success of their company with a memorial on their main web page.[2]:382

References
  1. A&E FEATURE (2015-08-06). "Dungeon masters: Little Rock's Troll Lord Games is still going strong after 15 years". Arkansas Times. Retrieved 2018-07-13. but co-founder and CEO Stephen Chenault said Troll Lord has weathered the rise of digital video gaming by adapting and embracing the Internet rather than trying to fight against it.
  2. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
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