François Marcela-Froideval
French role-playing game creator (died 2025)
About François Marcela-Froideval
Lived 1958 – 2025 (aged 66). François Marcela-Froideval was a French screenwriter, comics writer and role-playing game designer.
François Marcela-Froideval (10 December 1958 – 17 June 2025 His writing contributions include several Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rules and monster manuals in collaboration with Gary Gygax, like Oriental Adventures. Gygax credited Froideval with the idea to add a seventh ability score to the game tracking the appearance of characters, called comeliness. Back in France, he focused on translating and publishing TSR games until 1989.
Marcela-Froideval wrote the scenario of several French videogames, working for Infogrames (Drakkhen) and Cryo Interactive (Dragon Lore series).
In 1989, he wrote the scenario of the first Black Moon Chronicles comic album with drawer Olivier Ledroit.
Marcela-Froideval died aged 66, on 17 June 2025, in Paris, France.
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French role-playing game creator (died 2025)
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François Marcela-Froideval was born on 10 December 1958 in 15th arrondissement of Paris.
When did François Marcela-Froideval die?
François Marcela-Froideval died on 17 June 2025 in Lorrez-le-Bocage-Préaux.
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François Marcela-Froideval was a screenwriter, comics writer and role-playing game designer.
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François Marcela-Froideval was French.
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