Jeremy Crawford

Jeremy Crawford
Nationality	United States
Occupation	Writer
Years active	2005

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Jeremy E. Crawford is a roleplaying game designer best known as one of the lead developers of Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition.

Life and career

Early life

Crawford was first introduced to Dungeons & Dragons by his sister when he was aged six. He became an avid D&D player, starting with Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition in elementary school. In junior high he was exceptionally fond of the Dragonlance novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight. In high school once ran a 48-hour D&D LARP, and began developing his own homebrew campaign setting.

As a teenager, he once met D&D creator Gary Gygax on a visit to his local gaming store in San Luis Obispo, California.

Crawford graduated from high school in 1990 and went on to study English and philosophy at undergraduate level before completing a MA in theology. He studied at Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York, originally planning to pursue a career as a professor of theology, with a focus on mysticism and the ancient church. Crawford cites his theological experience as influential in his practice of analyzing texts and understanding how different people can read different meanings into the same texts.

Before becoming a full-time game developer, he worked as a web developer, as well as a writer and editor.

Early roleplaying game works

Crawford edited the d20 System sourcebook The Book of Fiends (2003) by Green Ronin Publishing. In 2005, he worked on Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

In 2005, Crawford was lead developer on the Blue Rose roleplaying game, by Green Ronin Publishing. It won a silver ENNie for Best Rules that year, and worked on subsequent rulebooks for that system. The rules system for this game was subsequently adapted into True20 Adventure Roleplaying. In 2007, he worked on Paragons for the Mutants & Masterminds roleplaying game.

Wizards of the Coast

Crawford joined Wizards of the Coast in 2007. He worked on the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition sourcebook City of Stormreach (2008), one of the last D&D 3.5 books.

He went on to worked as a designer for numerous sourcebooks for Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, including the three core rulebooks and major sourcebooks including Player's Handbook 2 (4e) (2009), Monster Manual 3 (4e) (2010), and The Book of Vile Darkness (4e) (2011).

Crawford was one of the lead developers on the highly successful Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, co-authoring the three core rulebooks with Mike Mearls. He subsequently worked on several major 5th edition rulebooks, including Xanathar's Guide to Everything (2017) and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes (2018).

Bibliography

D&D sourcebooks

• City of Stormreach (2008): Development
• Player's Handbook (4e) (2008): Designer, Production Staff
• Monster Manual (4e) (2008): Designer, Production Staff
• Forgotten Realms Player's Guide (2008): Designer
• 4th Edition Core Rulebook Collection (2008): Designer
• Dungeon Master's Guide (4e) (2008): Designer
• Player's Handbook 2 (4e) (2009): Designer, Production Staff
• P3 Assault on Nightwyrm Fortress (2009): Designer
• Heroes of the Fallen Lands (2010): Designer
• Monster Manual 3 (4e) (2010): Designer
• Starter Set (4e) (2008): Designer, Production Staff
• Dungeon Master's Kit (2010): Designer
• Heroes of the Feywild{{UnknownBook}}: Designer
• Heroes of Shadow{{UnknownBook}}: Designer
• Neverwinter Campaign Setting (2011): Designer
• Monster Vault: Threats to the Nentir Vale (2011): Designer
• The Book of Vile Darkness (4e) (2011): Designer
• Heroes of the Elemental Chaos{{UnknownBook}}: Designer, Production Staff
• Into the Unknown (2012): Designer
• Ghosts of Dragonspear Castle (2013): Designer
• Starter Set (5e) (2014): D&D Lead Designer
• Player's Handbook (5e) (2014): D&D Lead Designer, Player's Handbook Lead
• Monster Manual (5e) (2014): D&D Lead Designer, Managing Editor
• Dungeon Master's Guide (5e) (2014): D&D Lead Designer, Dungeon Master's Guide Lead
• Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide (2015): Designer, Managing Editor, D&D Lead Designer
• Elemental Evil Player's Companion (2015): D&D Lead Designer, Managing Editor
• Curse of Strahd (2016): D&D Lead Designer, Designer, Managing Editor
• Storm King's Thunder (2016): D&D Lead Designer, Managing Editor
• Volo's Guide to Monsters (2016): Lead Rules Developer, Managing Editor
• Tales from the Yawning Portal (2017): Lead Rules Developer, Managing Editor
• Tomb of Annihilation (2017): Lead Rules Developer, Managing Editor
• Xanathar's Guide to Everything (2017): Lead Designer, Managing Editor
• Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes (2018): Lead Designer, Managing Editor
• Waterdeep: Dragon Heist (2018): Rules Development, Managing Editor
• Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage (2018): Managing Editor
• Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica (2018): Lead Designer, Managing Editor, Ravnica World Design
• Ghosts of Saltmarsh (2019): Developer

Third-party roleplaying game books

• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (ISBN 978-1844162208): Designer
• Blue Rose (ISBN 978-1932442229): Designer
• Blue Rose Companion (ISBN 978-1932442366): Designer, Production Staff
• World of Aldea (ISBN 978-1932442465): Designer, Production Staff
• Paragons: Designer

External links

• Jeremy Crawford at the Pen & Paper RPG Database
• Jeremy Crawford at RPGGeek
• Jeremy Crawford on Twitter