Ray Winninger

Ray Winninger is a game designer who has worked on a number of roleplaying games, including the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. He is the former Executive Producer for the Wizards of the Coast Dungeons & Dragons studio.

Early life Ray Winninger was a competitive chess player as a child, and at age nine, he discovered Avalon Hill games and Dungeons & Dragons while looking for chess opponents at a local hobby shop/game store.

Career Winninger's first published work was an adventure called Countdown! for FASA's Doctor Who role-playing game. He then worked on staff at Mayfair Games, and became Editorial Director for Mayfair after Chill was released. He brought back the Role Aids line, intending to recreate it with more sophisticated material for AD&D than that which TSR was producing at the time. In October 2022, Winninger announced that he had left Wizards of the Coast.

Works Ray Winninger has worked for TSR, West End Games, Mayfair Games, Last Unicorn Games, and Pulsar Games. His "Dungeoncraft" column ran in Dragon from 1999-2002, during which time he also served as a contributing editor to the magazine.

He was the executive producer for Harebrained Schemes' 2014 Miniature wargaming game Golem Arcana.