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Hi, I'm
Jeff Tidball.

I'm a freelance writer and game designer. I'm pretty much always booked with contract and personal projects, mainly because I'm always interested in hearing about new gigs.

I write it all: video game voiceover, game rules, flavor text, world background, prose fiction, screenplays, and essays and articles about anything and everything. I design anything you could call a game: board games, card games, social games, roleplaying games, and games that defy convenient categories.

Recently. . .

November It's full speed ahead in Kansas City. We're out of our house in Minnesota and we close on a new house in KC just before Christmas. Everything else stands aside for work, family, and moving.

October I began a new, full-time job as the Chief Operating Officer at Kansas City design firm RiverKey Creative. I've written the story of how this came about and what it means on Tumblr.

September Mordenkainen's Magnificent Emporium for Dungeons & Dragons showed up at retail. I wrote dozens of its listings for magical armor, weapons, and gear.

I'm on Twitter because you need a water cooler that much more when you don't go work in an office every day. I use Twitter to keep up with friends and business partners. My feed is largely personal and informal, and as a grown-up, I sometimes use grown-up language.

I'm a co-founder of Gameplaywright, a website and book publisher interested in—nay, obsessed with—games and stories. My partner is Will Hindmarch.

I have a Facebook page, which is a necessary evil.

You can find information about me on LinkedIn. I'm proud of everything you'll read there, but I try to remember that a creative pro's education and employment history are half the story, maybe less.

I have a Flickr account that I haven't used much in the past few years.

I don't have a blog anymore, but I goof around on Tumblr sometimes.

Jeff Tidball's headJeff Tidball is a writer and game designer.

He's the writer who takes a month off work to write a novella that gets him into the best film school in the country. He's the game designer who challenges himself to design a board game you play without a table and wins the Origins Vanguard Award for innovation. He's the guy you want on fourth down when there's a grenade in your foxhole. But don't take his word for it, poke around the Google search for yourself.

Keep tabs on Jeff at Twitter, or Gameplaywright, or Facebook.

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