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Stephen Chenault is a game designer 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 ...
s. He is also the co-founder and CEO of
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. They ...
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Career

Stephen Chenault and his brother
Davis Chenault Davis Chenault is a game designer 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 thi ...
wanted to publish a 300-page leather bound campaign setting. When Stephen learned that
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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. They ...
in 1999 with Davis Chenault. They then published a set of "universal" adventures, and they prepared three of them for Gen Con 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. Stephen Chenault authored ''A Lion in the Ropes'' (2001), a d20 mystery and the first d20 adventure from Troll Lord Games. The Chenaults also published their campaign setting in the ''Codex of Erde'' (2001), although it was not quite 200 pages and not leather-bound. Gary Gygax 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. When Troll Lord Games published their '' Castles & Crusades'' role-playing game, the Chenaults reprinted some of their classics, such as ''I1: Vakhund: Into the Unknown'' (2006). When 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.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chenault, Stephen Living people Role-playing game designers Year of birth missing (living people)