Jeff Grubb

Jeff Grubb (born August 27, 1957 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an author and game designer. He has worked on a number of computer and role-playing games and has written a number of successful novels, short stories and comics. His credits include The Finder's Stone Trilogy with his wife, Kate Novak, the Spelljammer and the Jakandor campaign settings, and, more recently, the computer games Guild Wars Nightfall. A wargaming enthusiast since high s... more

Jeff Grubb (born August 27, 1957 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an author and game designer. He has worked on a number of computer and role-playing games and has written a number of successful novels, short stories and comics. His credits include The Finder's Stone Trilogy with his wife, Kate Novak, the Spelljammer and the Jakandor campaign settings, and, more recently, the computer games Guild Wars Nightfall. A wargaming enthusiast since high school, Jeff Grubb “started with Avalon Hill wargames ... and got into SPI games later. Some of my favorites were Panzerblitz, Blitzkrieg, and Frigate.” Grubb met Kate Novak in high school, and they got married in 1983. He first learned of roleplaying games as a freshman majoring in engineering at Purdue University, when he happened upon a game of Dungeons & Dragons being played by members of the campus wargaming club. Within a year, he had attended his first Gen Con and was running his own campaign set in Toril, a world of his own creation.... less