About Jeff Tidball
Jeff Tidball was a designer and game designer.
Jeff Tidball is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Biography Jeff Tidball was a college student when he began working full-time at Atlas Games when the company expanded after the success of On the Edge (1994). John Nephew and Tidball were the only staff that Atlas retained after the collectible card game field crashed in 1996. Tidball designed Cults Across America (1998) which was one of the board and card game releases from Atlas.
Tidball lives with his wife and sons in the Twin Cities area.
Notable works Notable Works Role Year Ars Magica Line Developer 1996 Cults Across America Designer 1998 The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game Line Developer 2002–2004 Cthulhu 500 Designer 2004 Pieces of Eight Designer 2006 Beowulf: The Movie Boardgame Developer 2007 Things We Think About Games Co-Author 2008 Horus Heresy Designer and Producer 2010 The Bones: Us And Our Dice Co-Author 2010 Ecotopia Designer and Writer 2011 Skullgirls Writer 2011 League of Legends Writer 2011 Dragon Age: Set 2 Developer and Co-author 2011 Mercante Designer 2012 Doctor Who: Time Clash Designer 2016 The White Box: A Game Design Workshop-In-A-Box Designer and Writer 2017
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