Jason Carl

Jason Carl is a game designer who has worked on a number of roleplaying games for companies such as White Wolf, TSR and Wizards of the Coast, Kenzer & Company, and Exile Game Studio. He is currently the Brand Marketing Manager of Paradox Interactive's World of Darkness property.

Carl recalls his introduction to role-playing games: "Some junior high buddies back in my home state of Maine first introduced me to roleplaying in 1980... we played Keep on the Borderlands. From that moment on, I was totally and irreversibly hooked."^[1] Years later, he began doing freelance design for White Wolf Publishing and Dungeon magazine.^[1]

After working as the Policy Director for Organized Play for the Magic: The Gathering game, Carl became a member of the Wizards of the Coast R&D team, designing adventures and modules for the Dungeons & Dragons game: "Both careers have their rewards... but I've wanted to be involved in RPG design since I was fourteen - after all, I still remember rolling my first d20. So I couldn't pass up the opportunity to make the switch."^[1] When the D&D third edition was released in 2000, Carl was the designer chosen to begin the process of adding detail to the character classes in the supplement Sword and Fist (2001); he felt that this book "is important because it establishes the model for those that will follow it".^[1]

Carl was the CEO of By Night Studios from 2010 to 2018; By Night Studios is the official licensed publisher of new Mind’s Eye Theatre products for White Wolf’s World of Darkness setting.^[2][3] In 2019, he transitioned to the publisher's advisory board.^[4]

In early 2018, Carl was a game producer on the 5th edition of Vampire: The Masquerade (part of the World of Darkness series)^[5] and an "executive vice president of community" at White Wolf,^[6] a subsidiary of Paradox Interactive. Later in 2018, Paradox dissolved White Wolf as an independent entity.^[7][8] In 2019, the 5th edition of Vampire: The Masquerade won the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Game of the Year and won the Origins Fan Favorite Award.^[9]

Since 2019, Carl has been the Brand Marketing Manager of Paradox's World of Darkness.^[10][11] He also been the storyteller of multiple canon World of Darkness actual play web series including L.A. by Night,^[12] and Seattle By Night.^[13] Carl is the storyteller for the NY by Night web series which is a sequel to L.A. by Night.^[14] Em Friedman, for Polygon, stated that L.A. by Night "survived Geek & Sundry's decline [...] in no small part to the masterful work of storyteller and series creator Jason Carl".^[15] On NY by Night, Friedman commented that "Carl has a deft hand for scene-setting, creating lyric love letters to real-world locations both famous and obscure" and that "Carl and the players have always been innovators, working toward high production values, costuming, and even creating prerecorded interstitial scenes".^[15]

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Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition

• The Apocalypse Stone (2000)^[16]
• The Dungeon of Death (2000)^[17]

Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition

• Player's Handbook (2000)
• Monster Manual (2000)
• Dungeon Master's Guide (2000)
• Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game (2000)^[18]
• Lords of Darkness (2001)^[19]
• Magic of Faerûn (2001)^[20]
• Sword and Fist (2001)^[1]
• Diablo II: To Hell Back (2001)^[21][22]
• Silver Marches (2002)^[23]
• Kingdoms of Kalamar Player's Guide (2002)^[24]

Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 edition

• Monster Manual (2003)^[25]
• Races of Faerûn (2003)^[26]

Exile Game Studio

• Hollow Earth Expedition (2006)^[27]
• Mysteries of the Hollow Earth (2009)^[28]

World of Darkness

• Liege, Lord and Lackey (1997)^[29]
• Laws of Elysium (1998)^[30]
• Laws of the Night Revised (1999)^[31]
• Laws of the Hunt Revised Edition (2002)^[32]
• Mind's Eye Theater: Vampire The Masquerade (2013)^[33]
• Mind's Eye Theatre: Blood & Betrayal (2013)^[34]
• Mind's Eye Theatre: Vampire The Masquerade Storyteller Secrets (2014)^[35]
• Mind's Eye Theatre: Pickering Lythe (2015)^[36]
• Mind's Eye Theatre: Werewolf The Apocalypse (2016)^[37]
• Vampire: The Masquerade 5th edition (2018)^[5]

• "Jason Carl at Pen & Paper". Archived from the original on October 9, 2007. Retrieved November 29, 2009.