John Snead is a freelance role-playing writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. He studied math and history (B.A.) and cultural anthropology (MA). He has been gaming since 1980 and became a full-time designer and writer of role-playing games in 1998. Snead has worked for Chaosium, White Wolf, Last Unicorn, and Green Ronin, and Onyx Path.
John Snead: Role-Playing Game Designer
Early life and education
His education includes majors in Mathematics and History and minors in Classics and Physics from Washington University in St. Louis as well as a M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Career
John Snead did some of the early work on Chaosium's Nephilim game line. : 93 He has also done work for White Wolf and Last Unicorn Games. : 372 Snead approached Green Ronin Publishing with his idea for a romantic fantasy role-playing game, Steve Kenson worked with him to produce it as Blue Rose (2005), the second OGL-based game published by Green Ronin. : 372 He came up with the initial idea and setting for and wrote a significant portion of Blue Rose, and has written large amounts of Exalted, Trinity and Mage: The Awakening, as well as work on many other games. Snead is the developer for Onyx Path Publishing's science fiction game Trinity Continuum: Æon. Æon is a revised version of the Trinity role-playing game.