John Snead
Role-playing game designer
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John Snead is a freelance role-playing writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. Snead has worked for Chaosium, White Wolf, Last Unicorn, and Green Ronin, and Onyx Path.
Early life and education
His education includes a B.A. in Mathematics and History and minors in Classics and Physics from Washington University in St. Louis as well as a M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[1] He has been gaming since 1980 and became a full-time designer and writer of role-playing games in 1998.
Career
John Snead did some of the early work on Chaosium's Nephilim game line.[2]: 93 He has also done work for White Wolf and Last Unicorn Games.[2]: 372 Snead approached Green Ronin Publishing with his idea for a romantic fantasy role-playing game, Steve Kenson worked with him to produce it as Blue Rose (2005), the second OGL-based game published by Green Ronin.[2]: 372 He came up with the initial idea and setting for and wrote a significant portion of Blue Rose,[3] and has written large amounts of Exalted, Trinity and Mage: The Awakening, as well as work on many other games. Snead is the developer for Onyx Path Publishing's science fiction game Trinity Continuum: Æon.[4] Æon is a revised version of the Trinity role-playing game.