About John Nephew
John Nephew was an American designer, role-playing game designer and game designer.
John A. Nephew is an American game designer, who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career John Nephew started writing Dungeons & Dragons material freelance for TSR in 1986 while he was still in high school, initially writing material for Dragon and Dungeon magazines. While writing for the magazines, TSR invited Nephew to contribute to projects including Kara-Tur: The Eastern Realms (1988) and Castle Greyhawk (1988), and then the first book he wrote on his own, Tall Tales of the Wee Folk (1989).
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