American writer and game designer
Greg A. Vaughan is an American writer who creates material for roleplaying games.
Greg A. Vaughan: Dungeons & Dragons Game Designer
Greg A. Vaughan is an American writer and game designer known for his contributions to Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder. He has authored numerous adventures, modules, and campaign settings for both systems, including popular titles like 'The Twilight Tomb' and 'Spires of Xin-Shalast'. His work has spanned across various publishers, including Wizards of the Coast, Paizo, and Frog God Games.
Works
Greg A. Vaughan's role-playing credits for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game include Drow of the Underdark, Scepter Tower of Spellgard, Anauroch: The Empire of Shade, and The Twilight Tomb.
He was written several adventures for Dungeon magazine and Paizo's Pathfinder and GameMastery lines. His Pathfinder work includes Pathfinder Adventure Path #6: Spires of Xin-Shalast, and Pathfinder Adventure Path #11: Skeletons of Scarwall.
Wizards of the Coast
Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game
| Title | Year |
|---|---|
| The Twilight Tomb | 2006 |
| Drow of the Underdark (with Ari Marmell, Robert J. Schwalb, and Anthony Pryor) | 2007 |
| Anauroch: The Empire of Shade (with Thomas M. Reid and Skip Williams) | 2007 |
| Scepter Tower of Spellgard (with David Noonan) | 2008 |
| Ghosts of Saltmarsh ("Tammeraut's Fate") | 2019 |
| Mythic Odysseys of Theros ("No Silent Secret") | 2020 |
Dungeon Magazine Online (A Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Supplement)
| Title | Issue # | Year |
|---|---|---|
| "The Plague Tree" | 152 | 2007 |
| "The Lost Mines of Karak" (Scales of War AP) | 159 | 2008 |
| "The Brothers Gray" | 172 | 2009 |
Paizo Publishing
Dungeon Magazine
| Title | Issue # | Year |
|---|---|---|
| "Tammeraut's Fate"* | 106 | 2004 |
| "Torrents of Dread" | 114 | 2004 |
| "Touch of the Abyss" | 117 | 2004 |
| "Istivin: City of Shadows" (with Erik Mona) | 117 | 2004 |
| "Shadows of the Abyss" | 118 | 2005 |
| "Wrath of the Abyss" | 119 | 2005 |
| "The Hateful Legacy" | 131 | 2006 |
| "Kings of the Rift" (Age of Worms AP) | 133 | 2006 |
| "The Coming Storm" | 136 | 2006 |
| "Verdigris Wyrm" | 142 | 2007 |
| "Prince of Demons" (Savage Tide AP) | 150 | 2007 |
- "Tammeraut's Fate" was updated and revised in the 2019 Ghosts of Saltmarsh compilation by Wizards of the Coast.
Dragon Magazine
| Title | Issue # | Year |
|---|---|---|
| "The Ecology of the Dracolich"* (with Richard Pett) | 344 | 2006 |
- "The Ecology of the Dracolich" was reprinted in 2007 in the Dragon: Monster Ecologies compilation by Paizo Publishing.
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
| Title | Year |
|---|---|
| Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary (contributor) | 2009 |
| Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary 2 (contributor) | 2011 |
Pathfinder Chronicles/Pathfinder Campaign Setting/Pathfinder Modules
| Title | Book Line | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Classic Monsters Revisited - Orcs | Pathfinder Chronicles | 2008 |
| Into the Darklands (with James Jacobs) | Pathfinder Chronicles | 2008 |
| W2: River Into Darkness | GameMastery Module | 2008 |
| Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting (Mwangi) | Pathfinder Chronicles | 2008 |
| Dungeon Denizens Revisited (Purple Worm) | Pathfinder Chronicles | 2009 |
| The Witchwar Legacy (with Rob McCreary) | Pathfinder Module | 2010 |
| Mythical Monsters Revisited (Wendigo) | Pathfinder Campaign Setting | 2012 |
| Inner Sea Bestiary (Apostasy Wraith, Charnel Colossus, Petrified Maiden, Shadow Giant, Thin Man, Whirlmaw) | Pathfinder Campaign Setting | 2012 |
| Cradle of Night (with James Jacobs, Neil Spicer, and F. Wesley Schneider) | Pathfinder Module | 2018 |
Pathfinder Society Scenarios
| Number | Title | Season | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSS 03 | Murder on the Silken Caravan | 0 | 2008 |
| PSS 20 | King Xeros of Old Azlant | 0 | 2009 |
| PSS 42 | Echoes of the Everwar, Part II: Watcher of the Ages | 1 | 2010 |
| PSS 02-06 | The Heresy of Man, Part I: First Heresy (with Kevin Wright) | 2 | 2010 |
| PSS 02-07 | The Heresy of Man, Part II: Where Dark Things Sleep (with Kevin Wright) | 2 | 2010 |
| PSS 02-09 | The Heresy of Man, Part III: Beneath Forgotten Sands (with Kevin Wright) | 2 | 2010 |
Pathfinder Adventure Paths
| Title | AP | Volume # | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spires of Xin-Shalast | Rise of the Runelords | 6 | 2008 |
| "Karzoug the Claimer" | Rise of the Runelords | 6 | 2008 |
| "Hazard's on the World's Roof" | Rise of the Runelords | 6 | 2008 |
| "Bestiary" (Crag Spider, Denizen of Leng, Kuchrima, Harridan, Hungerer [with Richard Pett], Rune Giant, Wendigo) | Rise of the Runelords | 6 | 2008 |
| Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition (with James Jacobs, Richard Pett, Wolfgang Baur, Nicolas Logue, and Stephen S. Greer) | anniversary compilation | - | 2012 |
| Skeletons of Scarwall | Curse of the Crimson Throne | 11 | 2008 |
| "Bestiary" (with Sean K Reynolds) (Chained Spirit, Danse Macabre, Gug, The Prince in Chains, Umbral Dragon) | Curse of the Crimson Throne | 11 | 2008 |
| Curse of the Crimson Throne (with James Jacobs, Michael Kortes, Tito Leati, Nicolas Logue, Richard Pett, and F. Wesley Schneider) | revised and expanded compilation | - | 2016 |
| Shadow in the Sky | Second Darkness | 13 | 2008 |
| "Riddleport: City of Cyphers" | Second Darkness | 13 | 2008 |
| "The Gold Goblin" (with E. Jordan Bojar, Gwen Page, and Mike Selinker) | Second Darkness | 13 | 2008 |
| "Bestiary" (Darklands Sentinel, Fungal Crawler, Monstrous Cockroach, Flesh-Eating Cockroach Swarm, Swamp Barracuda) | Second Darkness | 13 | 2008 |
| "Pathfinder's Journal: ...And Your Enemies Closer" | Second Darkness | 15 | 2008 |
| The Impossible Eye | Legacy of Fire | 23 | 2009 |
| "Bestiary" (Black Jinni, Get of Iblis, Nephilim) | Legacy of Fire | 23 | 2009 |
| Mother of Flies | Council of Thieves | 29 | 2010 |
| The Varnhold Vanishing* | Kingmaker | 33 | 2010 |
| Vaults of Madness | Serpent's Skull | 40 | 2010 |
| Wake of the Watcher (with Rob McCreary) | Carrion Crown | 46 | 2011 |
| "Bestiary" (Moits of Shub-Niggurath) | Carrion Crown | 46 | 2011 |
| Night of Frozen Shadows | Jade Regent | 50 | 2011 |
| Raiders of the Fever Sea | Skull & Shackles | 56 | 2012 |
| "Bestiary" (Canopy Creeper) | Skull & Shackles | 56 | 2012 |
| Shards of Sin | Shattered Star | 61 | 2012 |
| "Leng: The Terror Beyond Dreams" | Shattered Star | 65 | 2012 |
| The Witch Queen's Revenge | Reign of Winter | 72 | 2013 |
| The Midnight Isles (with James Jacobs) | Wrath of the Righteous | 76 | 2013 |
| "The Perilous Wastes" | Mummy's Mask | 82 | 2014 |
| "Ecology of the Robot" | Iron Gods | 90 | 2014 |
| "Pathfinder's Journal: The Travails of Kilig the Steersman" | Giantslayer | 93 | 2015 |
| "Pathfinder Adventure Path Friends and Foes" (Chessadril Odranata) | Hell's Rebels | 100 | 2016 |
| "Bestiary" (Ez-Azael) | Hell's Vengeance | 107 | 2016 |
| "Bestiary" (Hooded Harbinger) | Strange Aeons | 112 | 2016 |
| "Ecology of the Vault Builders" | Ironfang Invasion | 120 | 2017 |
| "Ecology of the Alghollthu" | Ruins of Azlant | 121 | 2017 |
| "Bestiary" (Axial Monitor) | War for the Crown | 131 | 2018 |
| Rise of New Thassilon | Return of the Runelords | 138 | 2019 |
| "Seal-Breakers" | Tyrant's Grasp | 141 | 2019 |
| "Adventure Toolbox" (with Owen K.C. Stephens, James L. Sutter, and Linda Zayas-Palmer) (Carnivorous Crystal, Dalos, Deculi, Devourer, Dragonscarred Dead, Forge-Spurned, Gashadokuro, Magma Dragon) | Age of Ashes | 148 | 2019 |
| Life's Long Shadows | Extinction Curse | 153 | 2020 |
| "Swardlands Gazetteer" | Extinction Curse | 153 | 2020 |
| "Adventure Toolbox" (with Anthony Bono, Jacob W. Michaels, Andrew Mullen, Patrick Renie, Alex Riggs, and Timothy Snow) (Xulgath Stoneliege, Ginjana Mindkeeper, Skarja, Thessekka) | Extinction Curse | 153 | 2020 |
- The Varnhold Vanishing is one of the original adventures on which the Pathfinder: Kingmaker CRPG is based.
Other Publishers
| Title | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Blood Waters* | Sinister Adventures | 2008 |
| Freeport Companion: Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Edition | Green Ronin Publishing | 2010 |
| Your Whispering Homunculus (guest contributor) | Kobold Press | 2012 |
| The Fiddler's Lament | Legendary Games | 2012 |
| Gothic Campaign Compendium ("The Fiddler's Lament" and "Feasting at Lanterngeist") | Legendary Games | 2013 |
| Aegis of Empires Player's Guide | Legendary Games | 2019 |
| AE1: The Book in the Old House (with Alistair J. Rigg) | Legendary Games | 2020 |
| AE2: The Ebon Soul (with Jeffrey Swank) | Legendary Games | 2020 |
| AE3: When Comes the Moon (with Matthew Goodall) | Legendary Games | 2020 |
| AE4: Legend of the Burning Star (with Steven T. Helt) | Legendary Games | 2020 |
| AE5: Race for Shataakh-Uulm (with Tom Knauss) | Legendary Games | 2020 |
| AE6: Knight Fall in Old Curgantium (with Anthony Pryor) | Legendary Games | 2020 |
| Aegis of Empires GM's Guide | Legendary Games | 2020 |
| Aegis of Empires Design Journal | Legendary Games | 2020 |
| Aegis of Empires Adventure Path (with Matthew Goodall, Steven T. Helt, Tom Knauss, Anthony Pryor, Alistair J. Rigg, and Jeffrey Swank) | Legendary Games | 2021 |
| Icebound (contributor [uncredited] {Faiths of the Ice}/developer) | Michael Mars Gaming | 2021 |
- Blood Waters was updated and reprinted in 2012 in Razor Coast by Frog God Games.
Frog God Games
| Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|
| ST1: The Desolation, Part 1 - The Edge of Oblivion | author | 2010 |
| ST2: The Desolation, Part 2 - The Ghosts of Victory | author | 2010 |
| ST3: The Desolation, Part 3 - The Western Front | author | 2010 |
| ST4: Temple-City of Orcus, Part 1 - The Tower of Weeping Sores | author | 2010 |
| ST5: Temple-City of Orcus, Part 2 - The Lower City | author | 2010 |
| ST6: Temple-City of Orcus, Part 3 - The Harrow Lanes | author | 2010 |
| ST7: Temple-City of Orcus, Part 4 - The Crooked Tower | author | 2010 |
| ST8: Temple-City of Orcus, Part 5 - Foundations of Infamy | author | 2010 |
| NS1: Vengeance of the Long Serpent | developer | 2010 |
| ST9: The Hidden Citadel, Part 1 - At the Feet of Orcus | author | 2011 |
| ST10: The Hidden Citadel, Part 2 - Echoes of Despair | author | 2011 |
| ST11: The Hidden Citadel, Part 3 - The Throne of the Demon Prince | author | 2011 |
| ST12: The Hidden Citadel, Part 4 - In the Belly of the Beast | author | 2011 |
| ST13: The Hidden Citadel, Part 5 - The Mind of Chaos | author | 2011 |
| ST14: The Hidden Citadel, Part 6 - Caverns of the Barrier | author | 2011 |
| The Tome of Horrors Complete | contributor/lead developer | 2011 |
| NS2: Beyond the Wailing Mountains | developer | 2011 |
| NS3: The Death Curse of Sven Oakenfist | developer | 2011 |
| NS4: Blood on the Snow | developer | 2011 |
| ONS2: Death in the Painted Canyons | developer | 2011 |
| SNS4: The Mires of Mourning (with Kevin Wright) | co-author | 2011 |
| The Slumbering Tsar Saga | author | 2012 |
| Unusual Suspects | developer | 2012 |
| Rappan Athuk* | contributor/developer | 2012 |
| ONS5: Scorned | developer | 2012 |
| Razor Coast | contributor/developer | 2012 |
| Razor Coast: Freebooter's Guide to the Razor Coast | contributor/developer | 2013 |
| Razor Coast: Heart of the Razor | developer | 2013 |
| Razor Coast: Fire as She Bears | developer | 2013 |
| Razor Coast: Call of the Frog God | developer | 2013 |
| ONS6: Curse of Shadowhold | developer | 2013 |
| Tome of Horrors 4 | contributor [uncredited] | 2013 |
| LL3: Sword of Air | contributor/developer | 2014 |
| Dunes of Desolation | developer | 2014 |
| LL4: Cults of the Sundered Kingdoms (with Patrick Lawinger, Casey Christofferson, and David Brohman) | co-author/developer | 2015 |
| Cults of the Sundered Kingdoms: Player's Guide | developer | 2015 |
| LL5: Borderland Provinces (with Matthew J. Finch and Bill Webb) | co-author | 2015 |
| Borderland Provinces: Players Gazetteer | contributor [uncredited] | 2015 |
| Fields of Blood | developer | 2015 |
| Quests of Doom | developer | 2015 |
| Quests of Doom 2 | co-author/developer | 2015 |
| LL6: The Northlands Saga Complete (with Kenneth Spencer and Kevin Wright) | co-author/developer | 2015 |
| The Northlands Saga Complete: Player's Guide | co-author/developer | 2016 |
| NLS1: Winter's Teeth | developer | 2016 |
| NLS2: The Raid | developer | 2016 |
| NLS3: The Drowned Maiden | developer | 2016 |
| NLS4: Oath of the Predator | developer | 2016 |
| NLS5: The Hidden Huscarl | developer | 2016 |
| NLS6: One Night in Valhalla | developer | 2016 |
| Quests of Doom 3 | developer | 2016 |
| Mountains of Madness | contributor [uncredited]/developer | 2016 |
| The Tome of Blighted Horrors (with Richard Pett, John Ling, Pete Pollard, Alistair Rigg, and Jeffrey Swank) | co-author/developer | 2016 |
| LL8: Bard's Gate (with Casey Christofferson, Matthew J. Finch, and Skeeter Green) | co-author/developer | 2016 |
| TB3: Bloody Jack | author | 2016 |
| TB4: The Crucible | developer | 2016 |
| TB1: The Crooked Nail | developer | 2017 |
| TB2: Horror in the Sinks | developer | 2017 |
| LL7: The Blight: Richard Pett's Crooked City (with Richard Pett, Matthew J. Finch, and Bill Webb) | co-author/developer | 2017 |
| The Blight: Player's Guide | developer | 2017 |
| The Blight: Player's Handbook | contributor/developer | 2017 |
| The Blight: GM Guide | contributor/developer | 2017 |
| TB5: Children of the Harvest (with Bill Webb) | co-author [uncredited]/developer | 2017 |
| Marshes of Malice | contributor [uncredited]/developer | 2017 |
| Quests of Doom 4 | developer [uncredited] | 2017 |
| The World of the Lost Lands | co-creator [uncredited]/co-author/associate developer | 2019 |
| The World of the Lost Lands Map Folio | creator [uncredited] | 2019 |
| Developer's Notes for The World of the Lost Lands | creator | 2019 |
- Rappan Athuk was updated to 5e D&D, expanded, and reprinted in 2018 in by Frog God Games.