I'm John Scott Tynes, also known as Rev, a writer and game designer in Seattle. I'm currently a Lead Designer at Microsoft Game Studios creating original games for Xbox Live Arcade. I founded Pagan Publishing and Armitage House and have worked or written for Wizards of the Coast, Atlas Games, Steve Jackson Games, Daedalus Games, Chaosium, Acclaim, Bungie, Salon, McSweeney's Online, The Stranger, The Escapist, Tablet, and many other companies and publications.
In years past, my web site was considerably more elaborate. Not so much these days.
My email address has not changed since 1998, but I am not very good about replying.
A partial list of my credits follows for the sake of the curious and the damned.
Films
The Yellow Sign (screenwriter)
The Resurrectionist (editor)
Non-Fiction
Death to the Minotaur [ part 1 | part 2 ] (author)
Wiser Children (author)
Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media [ read online ] (essay author)
Hobby Games: The 100 Best (essay author)
videogame reviews & commentary for Seattle weekly alternative newspaper The Stranger (author)
videogame commentary for weekly online magazine The Escapist (author)
Fiction
Made in Goatswood (short story author)
Singers of Strange Songs (short story author)
Delta Green: Alien Intelligence (co-editor, short story author)
Delta Green: Dark Theatres (co-editor, short story author)
Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement (author)
Rehearsals for Oblivion, Act I (short story author)
Videogames
Pirates of the Burning Sea (producer)
Magic: The Gathering — Battlemage (lead writer)
Board & Card Games
Creatures & Cultists (co-designer)
The Hills Rise Wild (co-designer)
Magic: The Gathering — Ice Age (writer)
Roleplaying Games
Puppetland/Power Kill (designer)
Unknown Armies (co-designer)
Call of Cthulhu D20 (co-designer)
Unknown Armies Sourcebooks
One Shots: Five Stand-Alone Scenarios (editor, co-author)
Lawyers, Guns, and Money: The New Inquisition Sourcebook (editor)
Postmodern Magick: The Unnatural Sourcebook (editor, co-author)
Statosphere: The Invisible Clergy Sourcebook (editor, co-author)
Hush Hush: The Sleepers Sourcebook (editor, co-author)
Weep: Six Scenarios of Woe and Ruin (editor, co-author)
Ascension of the Magdalene (editor)
Break Today: The Mak Attax Sourcebook (editor)
To Go: A Campaign of Mythic Ascension (editor)
Penumbra Sourcebooks
Three Days to Kill (author)
Call of Cthulhu Sourcebooks
The Golden Dawn (editor, co-author)
Mortal Coils (co-author)
Delta Green (editor, co-author)
Delta Green: Countdown (editor, co-author)
The Unspeakable Oath issue 16/17 (editor, co-author)
The Resurrected 3: Out of the Vault (co-author)
The Stars Are Right! (co-author)
In Nomine Sourcebooks
Revelations I: Night Music (co-author)
Revelations II: The Marches (co-author)
Revelations III: Heaven and Hell (co-author)
Liber Reliquarum: The Book of Relics (co-author)
Infernal Players Guide (co-author)
Superiors 4: Rogues to Riches (co-author)
Feng Shui Sourcebooks
Marked for Death (editor, co-author)
Back for Seconds (editor, co-author)
Pandemonium Sourcebooks
Stranger than Truth: Further Adventures in Tabloid World (co-author)
Over the Edge Sourcebooks
Wildest Dreams (co-author)
Audio
Civic Sinner: Spoken-Word Stories and Dispatches (author, reader)
Distortions (composer)
Archive
Badges
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