Ryan Dancey

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Ryan Dancey
NationalityAmerican
Occupation
Game designer

Ryan S. Dancey is a businessman who has worked primarily in the collectible card game and role-playing game industries. He was vice president in charge of Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast.[1]

When the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons was facing bankruptcy, Dancey helped negotiate sale of the property to Wizards of the Coast.

Dancey promoted the D&D's open gaming license (OGL), which reversed the policy from opposing third-party publications to supporting them.

Career

Dancey was the owner of the distributor Isomedia Inc, a company that was helping fund the collectible card game Legend of the Five Rings (1995), and Dancey joined in on the project.[2]: 263  The principals behind the game created the new company Five Rings Publishing Group in 1996 with better funding from Robert Abramowitz as its President; Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) and Isomedia gave over their rights to Legend of the Five Rings, with Dancey becoming Vice President of Product Development and John Zinser of AEG becoming VP of Sales.[2]: 263 

d20 System Trademark License, based on his belief that the true strength of D&D came from its community of gamers.[2]: 287  He said that TSR was far too aggressive looking for copyright violations and alienated fans.[1] The OGL was published by WOTC in 2000 to license the System Reference Document (SRD) for D&D in a move spearheaded by Dancey.[3] Dancey also co-authored the Hero Builder's Guidebook (2000).[4] Dancey later moved to being a consultant, and was among those employees Wizards laid off before the end of 2002.[2]
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Dancey later worked for Icelandic video game producer CCP Games,[2]: 230  which had purchased White Wolf Publishing.[5]

In 2011, Dancey began working on Goblinworks "Pathfinder Online" Sandbox MMORPG.[6] In August 2015, interim Goblinworks CEO Lisa Stevens announced that Ryan Dancey had left Goblinworks for personal reasons.[7] In a separate letter to players, she indicated that Dancey was still involved, and would continue to consult on the project.[8]

References

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    AP Online. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2015 – via HighBeam Research
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    ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7
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  3. ^ Noah, Eric (2002-02-28). "The Most Dangerous Column in Gaming". Interview with Ryan Dancey. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original (Interview) on April 4, 2002. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
  4. ^ "Pyramid: Pyramid Review: Hero Builder's Guidebook (for Dungeons & Dragons)". Sjgames.com. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  5. ^ Gaming Industry Innovators CCP and White Wolf to Merge, CCP, November 11, 2006, archived from the original on January 1, 2010, retrieved November 19, 2009
  6. ^ "A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step - Goblinworks". Goblinworks.com. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Lisa's Community Address - Goblinworks". Goblinworks.com. Archived from the original on 5 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  8. ^ "Updated Text of Lisa Stevens' Community Address about the state of Pathfinder..." Plus.google.com. Retrieved 4 January 2018.

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