Dale "slade" Henson 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

When the

Spelljammer ''Spelljammer'' is a campaign setting originally published for the ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' (2nd edition) role-playing game, which features a fantastic (as opposed to scientific) outer space environment. Subsequent editions have included ' ...

line ended, slade came up with the idea of building a new setting on

Jeff Grubb Jeff Grubb (born August 27, 1957) is an author who writes novels, short stories, and comics and a computer and role-playing game designer in the fantasy genre. Grubb worked on the ''Dragonlance'' campaign setting under Tracy Hickman, and the ''F ...

's first-edition ''

Manual of the Planes The ''Manual of the Planes'' (abbreviated MoP) is a manual for the ''Dungeons and Dragons'' role-playing game. This text addresses the planar cosmology of the game universe. The original book (for use with ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' 1st Ed ...

'' (1987); a year later

David Cook David Cook may refer to: Entertainment * David Cook (game designer) (active since 1980s), American game designer for TSR * David Cook (singer) (born 1982), winner of the seventh season of ''American Idol'' * David Cook (writer) (1940–2015), Briti ...

picked up the idea and developed

Planescape ''Planescape'' is a campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game, designed by Zeb Cook, and published in 1994. It crosses numerous planes of existence, encompassing an entire cosmology called the Great Wheel, as dev ...

(1993) as a result. Henson's ''D&D'' design work included '' Monstrous Compendium Spelljammer Appendix'' (1990), ''

Realmspace ''Realmspace'' (product code SJR2) is an accessory for the ''Spelljammer'' campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. Contents This 96-page booklet describes the area of space near the planet Toril of the Forgotte ...

'' (1991), '' Monstrous Compendium Forgotten Realms Appendix II'' (1991), ''

Howl From the North ''Howl from the North'' is an adventure module for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game, set in the game's ''World of Greyhawk'' campaign setting. The module bears the code WGS2 and was published by TSR, Inc. in 1991 for the sec ...

'' (1991), '' Book of Crypts'' (1991), ''Unsung Heroes'' (1992), '' The Magic Encyclopedia'' (1992), '' The Knight of Newts'' (1993), '' Blood Enemies: Abominations of Cerilia'' (1995), and '' Netheril: Empire of Magic'' (1996). Henson also did significant work on TSR's ''

Buck Rogers XXVC Buck Rogers XXVC (sometimes written as Buck Rogers in the 25th Century) is a game setting created by TSR, Inc. in the late 1980s. Products based on this setting include novels, graphic novels, a role-playing game (RPG), board game, and video ga ...

'' role-playing game, including the supplements ''Earth is the 25th Century'' (1990), ''Hardware'' (1992), and particularly ''No Humans Allowed'' (1992).

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