Nationality British Occupation Game designer, author | Name James Desborough Role Author | |
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Books The Slayer's Guide to Female Gamers, Sex, Dice and Gamer Chicks, The Slayer's Guide To Rules Lawyers | ||
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James "Grim" Desborough is a British game designer, author and blogger who has worked primarily on role-playing games, as well as card games, board games and social computer games.
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Career
James Desborough wrote The Munchkin's Guide to Powergaming in 2000/2001, winning an Origins Award for that work along with his co-author Steve Mortimer. Desborough was the co-author of CS1: Cannibal Sector One and for a short time he was the SLA Industries line editor. Desborough is also the owner of Postmortem Studios. Due to Desborough's connections with Angus Abranson, Postmortem Studios was one of Cubicle 7's early partnerships. He later became creative director at Chronicle City, Abranson's new venture.
In 2014 he secured the license for John Norman's Gor series and in 2017 released a role-playing game based on those works, notable for its art by noted fetish artist Michael Manning.
Desborough's work was included in Red Phone Box, and in The Mammoth Book of Erotic Romance and Domination. He also self-publishes.
His D&D design work includes Monster Manual V (2007) and City of Stormreach (2008).
Reception
Desborough has been quoted or used as a pundit on men's issues in various places, including The Stream on Al Jazeera. Some of Desborough's work has been criticised for being "hateful, violent and misogynistic", leading critics to petition game companies to drop his work.