Gerard Christopher Klug is an American

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who has worked primarily on

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Career

Trained as a theatrical lighting designer, Gerry (Chris) Klug worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theater, opera, and toured with various 1970s rock bands. He won two New Jersey Critic's Circle Awards for lighting designs at the New Jersey Theater Forum. Klug then began writing adventures for

Simulations Publications Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) was an American publisher of board wargames and related magazines, particularly its flagship '' Strategy & Tactics'', in the 1970s and early 1980s. It produced an enormous number of games and introduced innov ...

's line of role-playing games. He assisted with the design of ''

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'', ''Horror Hotel'', '' Damocles Mission'', and the second edition of ''

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''. Klug and Robert Kern had first talked about publishing an espionage role-playing game while working as designers at SPI; after SPI was purchased by TSR in 1982, eight SPI employees quit and

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hired them to form a subsidiary called

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. Klug began working on his espionage design again, which would have been called "License to Kill", but when Victory Games decided to pay for a James Bond license the game became ''

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'' (1983). For a time, he was also design director for Victory Games.

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, with

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and Klug, designed the adventure '' The Shattered Statue'' (1988) for ''

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'', although the adventure was also compatible with ''

''. Chris Klug then began a career in the computer game field, with his credits including '' Star Trek DS9: Dominion Wars'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Aidyn Chronicles: First Mage''. From 2001 through 2004, Klug served as creative director for EA's MMORPG, ''

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''. Klug was the creative director for ''

Stargate Worlds ''Stargate Worlds'' (abbreviated as ''SGW'') was to be a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) video game, but it was put on hold and never released. It was developed by Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment (CME) in association with M ...

'' and the creative consultant for '' Stargate: Resistance''.

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External links

Gerry Klug :: Pen & Paper RPG Databasearchive
{{DEFAULTSORT:Klug, Gerry Living people Role-playing game designers Year of birth missing (living people)