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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ycore Rixle" data-source="post: 1281498" data-attributes="member: 675">In the D&D/d20 world,1. Gary Gygax (AD&D)2. (tie) Jonathan Tweet and Peter Adkison (D&D 3.0; and yes I know technically PA is not a designer, but I think his influence on 3.0 is vastly underrated and underappreciated- and IIRC he does get an "additional design" credit on the books - also Ryan Dancey can never be forgotten for helping design the business aspect of the game, but back to the more direct game designers...)3. Bill Slaviscek4. (tie) Chris Perkins and Chris Thomassen (wonderful work on Dungeon magazine)5. Tracy Hickman (original Ravenloft, not so much Dragonlance)6. Lance Hawvermale (throwing in a plug here; ever since "Fortune Favors the Dead" in Dungeon 80 I will buy anything with his name on it - although there has been too little of that!)In the all around game world, my list would look more like:1. Gary Gygax2. Jonathan Tweet/Peter Adkison3. Jeff Strain/Rob Pardo et al. formerly of Blizzard, now Triforge IIRC (computer games such as Starcraft, Diablo, etc.)4. Steve Jackson (Illuminati in all its wondrous forms)5. Warren Spector ( I mean come on now, take a look at his credits: Wing Commander, Ultima VII, System Shock, Deus Ex - it's as if the same guy had been credited on the Iliad, the Divine Comedy, and Hamlet)</blockquote>