Jenna K. Moran

Jenna Katerin Moran, previously known as Rebecca Sean Borgstrom and in early publications credited as R. Sean Borgstrom, is an American role-playing game (RPG) writer and designer, and novelist.

Early life While in high school, Moran began to play Dungeons & Dragons, and started to write related fantasy fiction. After high school, she attended Georgetown University, graduating with a Computer Science bachelor's degree in 1988. She then earned a PhD in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2000.

Role-playing games Moran began to write supplemental sourcebooks for existing RPGs, including four for Steve Jackson Games's urban fantasy RPG In Nomine, and five for White Wolf Publishing's epic fantasy RPG Exalted. She also co-authored various RPGs including Ex Machina, and the second and third editions of Exalted.

In the late 1990s, Moran began to create her own RPG universe, where she envisioned the player characters would be powerful servants of the gods who are attempting to save reality from destruction by the mysterious Excrucian Host. In 1999, the resultant diceless indie role-playing game Nobilis was released as a "print on demand" publication by Pharos Press. Pyramid called it "Complex, unique, and deeply touching, Nobilis is one of the most interesting small press RPGs in years." Moran released a second edition in 2002 with Hogshead Publishing, which became affectionately known as the "Great White Book" owing to its unusual 12x12" form factor.

In 2005, Moran was the primary author of the Weapons of the Gods RPG, the first role-playing game that Eos Press published in-house.

Moran continued to work with Eos, publishing the third edition of Nobilis in 2011, but it was later removed from sale after Moran and Eos parted ways. A revised version of the third edition was returned to market in 2022 with new layout and art.

In 2015, Moran created Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine,

In 2020, Moran published the diceless RPG Glitch: A Story of the Not,

Novels Moran has also written a number of novels, some associated with the Nobilis setting, while others are associated with her long-form web fiction Hitherby Dragons.

An Unclean Legacy (2011) Fable of the Swan (2012) Jack o'Lantern Girl (2012) The Night-Bird's Feather (2022)

Awards At Gencon 2003, the second edition of Nobilis won the Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming.

Role-playing bibliography

Ash-Tree Earth

The following three games are considered to exist in a shared universe and have references to each other within the games.

Nobilis

Nobilis: A Roleplaying Game (1st edition) Nobilis: The Game of Sovereign Powers (2nd edition) Creatures Clothed in Strangeness (2nd edition, supplement) Unlikely Flowerings (2nd edition, supplement) The Game of Powers: The Live-Action Supplement for Nobilis Nobilis The Essentials Volume 1: Field Guide to the Powers (3rd edition) Nobilis: Antithesis, Minibook 1i

Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine

Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine Fortitude: By the Docks of Big Lake (setting sourcebook) Fortitude: The Legendary 139 (minor campaign book) Fortitude: The Glass-Maker's Dragon (major campaign book) Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine: The Halloween Special (adventure) Techno Player's Guide (sourcebook)

Glitch

Glitch: A Story of the Not

Exalted

Moran has authored the following books for the Exalted role-playing game: Exalted: The Sidereals Exalted: The Outcaste Exalted: The Fair Folk Games of Divinity Savant and Sorcerer Exalted: Second Edition Exalted: Third Edition

In Nomine

Moran wrote the following books for the In Nomine role-playing game:

In Nomine: Superiors 1 - War & Honor In Nomine: Ethereal Player's Guide Liber Castellorum: The Book of Tethers Liber Servitorum: The Book of Servants

Other game books Denizens of San Angelo Ex Machina Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game - Manual of Monsters Weapons of the Gods Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist & Weaver of Their Fates (PDF) and the supplement That Languidly Dreamt Raif (PDF)