Joshua A.C. Newman is an American role-playing game designer.

Career

Newman is the designer of the

Indie role-playing game An indie role-playing game is a role-playing game published outside traditional, "mainstream" means. Varying definitions require that commercial, design, or conceptual elements of the game stay under the control of the creator, or that the gam ...

s Under the Bed (2005), Shock: Social Science Fiction (2006), Beowulf (2008), Shock: Human Contact (2010), and The Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze (2016). In 2012, Joshua A.C. Newman worked with Vincent Baker on a new version of the ''Mechaton'' rules as ''Mobile Frame Zero 001: Rapid Attack'' (2012), and Newman was able to use this for a successful Kickstarter. ''Rapid Attack'' was followed by ''Mobile Frame Zero 002: Intercept Orbit'', a carrier-based spaceship battle game in the same universe.

Roleplaying bibliography

* Under the Bed * Shock: Social Science Fiction * Shock: Human Contact * Beowulf Newman has also contributed to the book design of several other indie roleplaying games. * ''

Dogs in the Vineyard ''Dogs in the Vineyard'' is an independently published role-playing game loosely based on the history of the Mormons. It was written by D. Vincent Baker and published by Lumpley Games. In the 2004 Indie RPG Awards, ''Dogs in the Vineyard'' w ...

'' * ''The Mountain Witch'' * ''Bliss Stage'' * ''Misspent Youth''

References

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