Jason Carl

Jason Carl is a game designer who has worked on a number of roleplaying games for companies such as White Wolf, TSR and Wizards of the Coast, Kenzer & Company, and Exile Game Studio. He is the former Brand Marketing Manager of Paradox Interactive's World of Darkness property.

Career Carl recalls his introduction to role-playing games: "Some junior high buddies back in my home state of Maine first introduced me to roleplaying in 1980... we played Keep on the Borderlands. From that moment on, I was totally and irreversibly hooked." Years later, he began doing freelance design for White Wolf Publishing and Dungeon magazine. In 2019, he transitioned to the publisher's advisory board.

In early 2018, Carl was a game producer on the 5th edition of Vampire: The Masquerade (part of the World of Darkness series), and an "executive vice president of community" at White Wolf, a subsidiary of Paradox Interactive. Later in 2018, Paradox dissolved White Wolf as an independent entity. In 2019, the 5th edition of Vampire: The Masquerade won the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Game of the Year and won the Origins Fan Favorite Award.

From 2019 to 2025, Carl was the Brand Marketing Manager of Paradox's World of Darkness. Seattle by Night (2019), and L.A. by Night sequel NY by Night (2022). Em Friedman, for Polygon, stated that L.A. by Night "survived Geek & Sundry's decline [...] in no small part to the masterful work of storyteller and series creator Jason Carl". On NY by Night, Friedman commented that "Carl has a deft hand for scene-setting, creating lyric love letters to real-world locations both famous and obscure" and that "Carl and the players have always been innovators, working toward high production values, costuming, and even creating prerecorded interstitial scenes". In May 2026, Carl is scheduled to appear as a special guest at Darkness Emergent: Los Angeles, a World of Darkness themed LARP event from By Night Studios.

Works

Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition

The Apocalypse Stone (2000) The Dungeon of Death (2000)

Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition

Player's Handbook (2000) Monster Manual (2000) Dungeon Master's Guide (2000) Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game (2000) Lords of Darkness (2001) Magic of Faerûn (2001) Sword and Fist (2001) Silver Marches (2002) Kingdoms of Kalamar Player's Guide (2002) Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 edition

Monster Manual (2003) Races of Faerûn (2003) Exile Game Studio

Hollow Earth Expedition (2006) Mysteries of the Hollow Earth (2009)

World of Darkness

Liege, Lord and Lackey (1997) Laws of Elysium (1998) Laws of the Night Revised (1999) Laws of the Hunt Revised Edition (2002) Mind's Eye Theater: Vampire The Masquerade (2013) Mind's Eye Theatre: Blood & Betrayal (2013) Mind's Eye Theatre: Vampire The Masquerade Storyteller Secrets (2014) Mind's Eye Theatre: Pickering Lythe (2015) Mind's Eye Theatre: Werewolf The Apocalypse (2016) Vampire: The Masquerade 5th edition (2018)