Teeuwynn Woodruff

Teeuwynn Woodruff (October 25, 1966 – August 28, 2023) was an American writer and game designer who worked primarily on role-playing games, television writing and interviewing, and trading card games.

Freelancer Teeuwynn Woodruff was introduced to role-playing games at an early age, playing her first game of Dungeons & Dragons when she was 11, according to Woodruff. In an interview with internet podcast called Midnight Express, Woodruff said that after college, she met some employees of TSR while attending a games convention in 1992, which led to the idea of a career as a freelance fantasy writer; subsequently she sent some material to TSR and one of her monster designs appeared in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons adventure Assault on Raven's Ruin, While there, she wrote World of Darkness: Gypsies and contributed to White Wolf's Vampire: the Masquerade, Werewolf: the Apocalypse, Mage: the Ascension and Wraith: the Oblivion lines.

In 1995, she moved to Seattle to join the staff of Wizards of the Coast (WotC), and claimed to have been their first female game designer. She was also on the design team for Betrayal at House on the Hill.

Lone Shark In 2005, she left WotC to form Lone Shark Games.

Reception to her works Galitia Citybook: In the March 1995 edition of Dragon (Issue 215), Rick Swan reviewed Woodruff's book Galitia Citybook (written for West End Game's Bloodshadows RPG), and commented that "most of it's interesting, but there's nothing noteworthy." He gave the book an average rating of 3 out of 6, saying, "The lack of an adventure and the awkward narrative [...] make this an iffy buy."

Star Sisterz: Kidzworld reviewed Woodruff's collectible charm game and gave it a rating of four out of five stars, praising the game's bracelet charms and cards, but stating that the game needed multiple players to be fun and that "some of the card challenges are really lame".

Personal life Woodruff was born in 1966, and died from a cardiac arrest on August 28, 2023.