Jeff Perren 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 ...

, a hobby shop owner, and an early associate of

Gary Gygax Ernest Gary Gygax ( ; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') with Dave Arneson. In the 1960s, Gygax created an ...

Career

Jeff Perren was an early member of the

Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association The Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association (LGTSA) was a prominent wargaming club active in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin during the early 1970s. History At its inception around February and March 1970, it was originally known as the Lake Geneva Tact ...

along with

Terry Terry is a unisex given name, derived from French Thierry and Theodoric. It can also be used as a diminutive nickname for the names Teresa or Theresa (feminine) or Terence (given name), Terence or Terrier (masculine). People Male * Terry Albrit ...

and Rob Kuntz, Ernie Gygax, Mike Reese, Leon Tucker, and

Don Kaye Donald R. Kaye (June 27, 1938 – January 31, 1975) was the co-founder of Tactical Studies Rules (TSR), the game publishing company best known for their ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') role-playing game. He and TSR co-founder Gary Gygax had be ...

. Perren developed his own rules for '' Siege of Bodenburg'', and shared them with Gary Gygax. Early in 1970, the LGTSA purchased a considerable number of

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figures, which motivated Perren to develop four pages of his own rules for these miniatures which focused on mass combat. Perren and Gygax created this set of medieval miniatures rules and called it ''

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'', publishing the first set of these rules in a fanzine for the

Castle & Crusade Society The Castle & Crusade Society was a chapter of the International Federation of Wargaming dedicated to medieval miniature wargaming. Formation It was formed by Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz in 1970. Its starting membership included Gary Gygax, Rob Kunt ...

known as ''The Domesday Book''. Perren and Gygax also designed the miniatures game ''

Cavaliers and Roundheads ''Cavaliers and Roundheads'' is a set of rules for English Civil War miniature wargaming. It was written by Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren and published by Tactical Studies Rules (later TSR, Inc.) in 1973. The unassuming booklet was the first pro ...

'' (1973), which would be the first game published by Gygax's new company TSR.

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