Tom Jolly
American board game inventor (born 1954)
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Tom Jolly (born April 8, 1954)[1] is an American board game designer.
Career
Tom Jolly's games include Wiz-War, Drakon, Cavetroll, Light Speed, Camelot, Cargo, and he co-designed DiskWars and Vortex/Maelstrom.[2] Additional games he has designed include Gootmu, Knots, WayWord, and Got It!.[citation needed] The publisher of Wiz-War, Chessex, printed the fourth through the 7th editions of Wiz-War.The seventh edition, came out in 1997.[3] The eighth edition was released by publisher Fantasy Flight Games in 2012.[4] The first expansion set, Malefic Curses, came out in January 2014.[5] The ninth edition will be released by Steve Jackson Games.[6] [7]
Fantasy Flight Games published Jolly's DiskWars game in 1998, and a later fusion of the game was made with Alderac Entertainment Group's Rokugan setting resulting in DiskWars: Legend of the Five Rings (2000), and another mashup with Pinnacle Entertainment Group's Deadlands which resulted in Doom Town Range Wars (2000).[8] In January 2014, Diskwars was yet again revived in the form of Warhammer:Diskwars, combining Diskwars mechanics with the Warhammer fantasy world.
Tom Jolly has also written several short Science Fiction and Fantasy stories published by a variety of on-line and paper magazines. He has also designed over 40 puzzles, produced by a number of companies and woodcrafters around the world.[9]
Jolly lives in California with his wife, having retired from his career as an electrical engineer.[2]
