Dan Gelber (game designer)

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Dan Gelber
Nationality
Game designer

Daniel Seth Gelber is a

game designer who has worked primarily on wargames and role-playing games
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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]

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