John Snead

John Snead is a freelance role-playing writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. Snead has worked for Chaosium, White Wolf, Last Unicorn, and Green Ronin, and Onyx Path.

Early life and education His education includes a B.A. in Mathematics and History and minors in Classics and Physics from Washington University in St. Louis as well as a M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has been gaming since 1980 and became a full-time designer and writer of role-playing games in 1998.

Career John Snead did some of the early work on Chaosium's Nephilim game line. He has also done work for White Wolf and Last Unicorn Games. and has written large amounts of Exalted, Trinity and Mage: The Awakening, as well as work on many other games. Snead is the developer for Onyx Path Publishing's science fiction game Trinity Continuum: Æon. Æon is a revised version of the Trinity role-playing game.