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 downloadable 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. I use my Facebook page to discuss my work and creative interests:
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.
Videogames
Toy Soldiers (design consultant)
South Park: Let's Go Tower Defense Play (lead designer)
Pirates of the Burning Sea (producer)
Phoenix (lead writer)
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)
Non-Fiction
Death to the Minotaur: How Wizards of the Coast sacrificed its geeky, Gothic, sex-for-all idealism for Pokémon-size profits and Magic moola [ part 1 | part 2 ] (author)
Wiser Children: Two Years of Writing About Movies (author)
Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media [ read online ] (essay author)
Hobby Games: The 100 Best (essay author)
Family Games: The 100 Best (essay author)
videogame reviews & commentary for Seattle weekly alternative newspaper The Stranger (author)
film criticism for Seattle biweekly alternative newspaper Tablet (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)
Films
The Yellow Sign (screenwriter)
The Resurrectionist (editor)
Red Zone (co-screenwriter)
Audio
Toy Soldiers Radio Serial (producer)
Civic Sinner: Spoken-Word Stories and Dispatches (author, reader)
Distortions (composer)
Archive
Badges
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