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Jeremy Crawford
Jeremy Crawford
	Jeremy Crawford, one of the Lead Designers of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, at Lucca Comics & Games 2014.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Game designer
Spouse	Phillip Lienau (m. 2014)

Jeremy Crawford is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. He was the Lead Rules Designer for the 4th Edition of Wizards of the Coast's tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, and one of the Lead Designers of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.

Career

Green Ronin Publishing (2005–2007)

Jeremy Crawford co-designed and edited the Blue Rose (2005) role-playing game along with Steve Kenson for Green Ronin Publishing.^[3] Blue Rose won the 2005 ENnie Awards for "Best Rules" and "Best d20 Game".^[4] Crawford is credited on the updated edition of Blue Rose (2017)^[5] as it carried forward parts of the setting design from the original edition.^[6] He also worked on the second edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and Mutants & Masterminds.^[6]^[7]

Wizards of the Coast (2007–present)

He was hired by Wizards of the Coast in 2007 as a game designer for their flagship Dungeons & Dragons product, and has worked there since then. His Dungeons & Dragons design credits include Player's Handbook 2 (2009),^[8] Dungeon Master's Kit (2010), and Heroes of the Fallen Lands (2010).

He was the rules manager for the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Development on a new edition started in 2011 and Crawford became the Co-Lead Designer, along with Mike Mearls, of the 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Crawford also became the lead rules developer and managing editor of the edition.^[9] Under Crawford and Mearls, there became a concerted effort to boost inclusiveness both in the game and in the development of the game.^[10] The 5th Edition version of the game credits women as contributors to its design more than any previous one: about 26 percent are female, as opposed to 20 percent in 4th Edition and 12 percent in 3rd Edition.^[11] The Mary Sue reported that under this new direction, 40% of Dungeons & Dragons players in 2018 are women which is an increase "from 2012, when women made up 20–25% of players".^[12] He is credited as one of the authors of the Player's Handbook for the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons, along with several other books in the edition.^[13] He also wrote the monthly "Sage Advice" newsletter.^[14] He is the lead designer on the 2024 version of the fifth edition Player's Handbook of Dungeons & Dragons.^[15]^[16]

In 2024, Crawford won the Gayming Icon Award for his Dungeons & Dragons game design.^[17]^[16]

Personal life

Crawford is openly gay,^[18]^[19] and married his husband Phillip Lienau in 2014.^[1]^[2]^[20]

Works

Title	Game	Credits	Date	ISBN
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2nd edition	Designer	2005	978-1844162208
Blue Rose	Blue Rose 1st edition	Designer, Editor	2005	978-1932442229
Blue Rose Companion	Blue Rose 1st edition	Designer, Production Staff	2005	978-1932442366
World of Aldea	Blue Rose 1st edition	Designer, Production Staff	2006	978-1932442465
Paragons	Mutants & Masterminds 2nd edition	Designer	2007
Player's Handbook	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer, Production Staff	2008	978-0786949298
Monster Manual	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer, Production Staff	2008	978-0786948529
Forgotten Realms Player's Guide	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer	2008	978-0786949298
4th Edition Core Rulebook Collection	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer	2008	978-1786950638
Dungeon Master's Guide	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer	2008	978-0786948802
Player's Handbook 2	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer, Production Staff	2009	978-0-7869-5016-4
Assault on Nightwyrm Fortress	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer	2009	978-0786950003
Player Essentials: Heroes of the Fallen Lands	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer	2010	978-0786956203
Monster Manual 3	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer	2010	978-0786954902
Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer, Production Staff	2010	978-0786956296
Dungeon Master's Kit	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer	2010	978-0786956302
Player's Option: Heroes of the Feywild	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer	2011	978-0786958368
Player's Option: Heroes of Shadow	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer	2011	978-0786957453
Neverwinter Campaign Setting	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer	2011	978-0786958146
Monster Vault: Threats to the Nentir Vale	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer	2011	978-0786958382
Book of Vile Darkness	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer	2011	978-0786958689
Player's Option: Heroes of the Elemental Chaos	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer, Production Staff	2012
Into the Unknown: The Dungeon Survival Handbook	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition	Designer	2012	978-0786960323
Ghosts of Dragonspear Castle	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	Project Lead	August 2013	978-0786965311
Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	D&D Lead Designer	15 July 2014	978-0786965595
Player's Handbook (2014)	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	D&D Lead Designer, Player's Handbook Lead	19 August 2014	978-0786965601
Monster Manual	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	D&D Lead Designer, Managing Editor	30 September 2014	978-0786965618
Dungeon Master's Guide	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	D&D Lead Designer, Dungeon Master's Guide Lead	9 December 2014	978-0786965625
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	Designer, Managing Editor, D&D Lead Designer	3 November 2015	978-0786965809
Elemental Evil Player's Companion	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	D&D Lead Designer, Managing Editor	16 April 2015
Curse of Strahd	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	D&D Lead Designer, Designer, Managing Editor	15 March 2016	978-0786965984
Storm King's Thunder	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	D&D Lead Designer, Managing Editor	6 September 2016	9780786966004
Volo's Guide to Monsters	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	Lead Rules Developer, Managing Editor	15 November 2016	978-0786966011
Tales from the Yawning Portal	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	Lead Rules Developer, Managing Editor	4 April 2017	978-0-7869-6609-7
Tomb of Annihilation	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	Lead Rules Developer, Managing Editor	19 September 2017	9780786966103
Xanathar's Guide to Everything	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	Lead Designer, Managing Editor	21 November 2017	978-0786966110
Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	Lead Designer, Managing Editor	29 May 2018	978-0786966240
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	Rules Development, Managing Editor	18 September 2018	978-0786966592
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	Managing Editor	20 November 2018	978-0786966264
Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	Lead Designer, Managing Editor, Ravnica World Design	20 November 2018	978-0786966592
Ghosts of Saltmarsh	Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition	Developer	21 May 2019	978-0786966752
Player's Handbook (2024)	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition	Lead Designer	17 September 2024	978-0786969821