Gary L. Thomas is a game designer who has worked primarily on

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Career

Gary Thomas and Joe D. Fugate Sr. started

Digest Group Publications Digest Group Publications was an American game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements. History Editors Gary L. Thomas and Joe D. Fugate, Sr. founded Digest Group Publications (DGP) in 1986 as a business that they ran par ...

(DGP) together in 1986 as a business that they ran part-time while working as editors at other jobs. Fugate published articles in their magazine ''The Traveller's Digest'' which got the attention of Marc Miller at Game Designers' Workshop, who started a long-lasting working relationship between GDW and DGP by requesting Fugate and Thomas expand and revise the material in those articles, which GDW then published as the last of the small black rulebooks for ''

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'', '' Book 8: Robots'' (1986). Thomas wrote the first published '' MegaTraveller'' scenario, "Lion at Bay", which first appeared in ''The Traveller's Digest'' #9. Thomas later worked on material for TSR, the last of which was published in 1989-1991. His ''D&D'' design work includes '' The Book of Lairs II'' (1987), ''

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Volume 1'' (1989), ''Monstrous Compendium Volume 2'' (1989), ''Monstrous Compendium Forgotten Realms Appendix'' (1989), and '' The Shadow Elves'' (1990).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas, Gary L. Dungeons & Dragons game designers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people)