Jeffrey Barber is a

game designer Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in ...

who has worked primarily on

role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...

Career

Jeff Barber was a gamer from Columbia, Missouri, who joined the volunteer staff of

Pagan Publishing Pagan Publishing is a role-playing game publishing company founded by John Scott Tynes in 1990. It began by publishing a '' Call of Cthulhu'' role-playing game fanzine, '' The Unspeakable Oath''. In 1994, the company moved from Columbia, Misso ...

and collaborated with

John Scott Tynes John Scott Tynes (born 1971) is an American writer best known for his work on role-playing games such as ''Unknown Armies'', ''Delta Green'', ''Puppetland'', and for his company, Tynes Cowan Corporation. Under its imprint, Pagan Publishing, Tyne ...

on early adventures and other games. He co-wrote "Grace under pressure" with Pagan publishing's staff, the book is currently out of print. When Pagan moved to Seattle, Barber and others left Pagan as a result, and went on to found

Biohazard Games Biohazard Games is a company located in Columbia, Missouri that publishes role-playing games, most of them designed by Jeff Barber and Jim Heivilin. The company tends to work closely with Fantasy Flight Games. History Many Biohazard employees o ...

, publishers of '' Blue Planet'' (1997).

Fantasy Flight Games Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) is a game company based in Roseville, Minnesota, United States, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, card, and dice games. As of 2014, it is a subsidiary of Asmodée Éditions. History Fantasy Flight Publish ...

spent 2000 pushing out a new line of RPG products: a new edition of Barber's and Greg Benage's ''Blue Planet''. He is one of the author of the

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campaign setting.

Bibliography

Killer Crosshairs, Biohazard Games 1995.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barber, Jeff Living people People from Columbia, Missouri Role-playing game designers Year of birth missing (living people)