Jess Heinig is an American game designer best known for working on the

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series of games in the early 2000s. Since then he has worked on several other role-playing games and served as a programmer for

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Career

Jess Heinig is best known as an author and developer for

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He helped produce, as an author and/or developer, numerous ''

'' titles, including ''Mage: The Ascension Revised Edition''. Heinig and

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were two designers hired by the Last Unicorn Games RPG division of Decipher Games in the interim between Wizards of the Coast (2000) and Decipher (2001) purchasing Last Unicorn; by January 2004, Heinig and Tidball were the last two employees left at Last Unicorn, and Decipher therefore closed its RPG division and laid them off. John Wick had talked about designing a version of the D20 System with Heinig that eliminated statistics such as levels, classes, alignments, and hit points, but

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encountered difficulties that prevented this from happening. When Bill Bridges moved back to White Wolf Publishing in 2002, he replaced Heinig as the developer for the revised edition of ''

''. In 2004, Heinig was a Guest of Honor for gaming at

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. Heinig's ''Wilderness'' (2013) for ''

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'' appeared in early 2013. Heinig wrote rules for a series of unusual and "wicked" takes on standard fantasy races for John Wick's Wicked Fantasy articles in ''

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''. Jess Heinig was also a programmer for ''

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References

External links

Jesse Heinig's Journal

Jess Heinig :: Pen & Paper RPG Databasearchive
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