Joe Dever

Who is Joe Dever?

Joe Dever is an award-winning British fantasy author and game designer. Originally a musician, Dever became the first British winner of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Championship of America in 1982.

He created the fictional world of Magnamund as a setting for his Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. In 1984 he released the first book of the Lone Wolf series of young-adult gamebooks, and the series has since sold over 10.4 million copies worldwide. He experienced difficulty with his publishers as the game books market began to contract in 1995, until publication ceased in 1998 before the final four books were released. Since 2003, however, the series has enjoyed a strong revival of interest in France, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Poland following the re-release of the gamebook series in these countries.

From 1996 onwards, Dever has been involved in the production of several successful computer and console games. He also contributed to a Dungeons & Dragons-style roleplaying game for Lone Wolf published by Mongoose Publishing from 2004 to 2013 and Le Grimoire in 2006–2013. Currently, he is authoring the story and text for the first game of the Joe Dever's Lone Wolf video game series for tablets by Forge Reply called Lone Wolf: Blood on the Snow, co-authoring the next Lone Wolf roleplaying game by Cubicle 7, and writing the final books in the core Lone Wolf series. The latter works are all scheduled for publication in 2013–15.