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Dan Gelber
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer

Daniel Seth Gelber is a game designer who has worked primarily on wargames and role-playing games.

Career

Dan Gelber designed his own role-playing game about a dystopic world controlled by a computer called "Alpha Complex" and ran adventures using this game for his local group, so his friend Greg Costikyan approached Gelber with Eric Goldberg to get the setting published.[1]: 186  Gelber gave Goldberg and Costikyan his notes for the game and they used those ideas to complete a full manuscript for a game.[1]: 186  Gelber, Costikyan, and Goldberg licensed this Paranoia game to West End Games, and Ken Rolston helped rewrite the rules before it was published in 1984.[1]: 187 

Gelber also designed (with Jeffrey Simons and Evan Jones) The Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. ^ "Review of the Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game - RPGnet RPG Game Index".

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