Davis Chenault 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 games.

Career

Davis Chenault and his brother Stephen Chenault wanted to publish a 300-page leather bound campaign setting. When Stephen learned that Mac Golden was thinking of publishing a gaming magazine called ''The Seeker'', they formed

Troll Lord Games Troll Lord Games is an American publisher of role-playing games (based on fantasy and swords & sorcery themes), ''The Crusader'' magazine and other board/dice/card games. They are best known for the ''Castles & Crusades'' role-playing game. Th ...

with Davis Chenault and published a set of "universal" adventures, and they prepared three of them for

Gen Con Gen Con is the largest tabletop game convention in North America by both attendance and number of events. It features traditional pen-and-paper, board, and card games, including role-playing games, miniatures wargames, live action role-playin ...

33: ''After Winter's Dark'' (2000), a 24-page book describing the campaign setting of Erde; ''The Mortality of Green'' (2000), an Erde adventure; ''Vakhund: Into the Unknown'' (2000), an adventure for the campaign setting of Inzae and also the first part of a trilogy. The Chenaults published their campaign setting, in the ''Codex of Erde'' (2001), although it was not quite 200 pages and not leather-bound.

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 ...

wrote to the Chenaults to thank them for their gift of Troll Lord's first RPG supplements at Gen Con 33, and their conversation eventually led to Gygax offering to write books for Troll Lord. Davis Chenault's ''Bergholt I: By Shadow of Night'' (2003) was a companion book intended to kick off a trilogy of adventures set in Inzae but the sequels have never seen print. When Troll Lord Games published their ''

Castles & Crusades ''Castles & Crusades'' (''C&C'') is a fantasy role-playing game published in 2004 by Troll Lord Games based upon a stripped-down variant of the d20 System by Wizards of the Coast. The game system is designed to emulate the play of earlier edit ...

'' role-playing game, the Chenaults reprinted some of their classics, such as ''I1: Vakhund: Into the Unknown'' (2006). When Gary Gygax died in 2008, Troll Lord Games lost the licenses to all of his works, but the Chenaults continue to remember his legacy and his part in the success of their company with a memorial on their main web page.

References

External links

Davis Chenault :: Pen & Paper RPG Databasearchive
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