Chris Pramas

Chris Pramas is an American game designer, writer, and a co-founder and co-owner of Green Ronin Publishing. He is best known as the designer of the Dragon Age RPG, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (2nd Edition), and Freeport: The City of Adventure. Pramas began his career in the game industry as a freelancer in 1993, contributing to games such as Underground, Dangerous Prey, Over the Edge, the Warhammer campaign The Dying of the Light. In early 1996, Pramas acquired the rights to The Whispering Vault and formed Ronin Publishing with his brother, but the company went out of business about a year later, after which Pramas accepted a job offer from Wizards of the Coast in 1998, where he was a creative director and was involved in Dragon Fist, Dungeons & Dragons (including Advanced Dungeons & Dragons), Dark•Matter, Chainmail Miniatures Game.

Pramas founded Green Ronin Publishing in 2000 with his wife Nicole Lindroos, and by 2001 they had brought on a third member of the team, Hal Mangold. At Green Ronin, Pramas was involved in Spaceship Zero, Mutants & Masterminds, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (2nd Edition), The Pirate's Guide to Freeport, Dragon Age, A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying, and Critical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting. Outside of his involvement in tabletop RPGs, Pramas is a content designer for the Pirates of the Burning Sea MMO and was the lead writer for Warhammher 40,000: Dark Millennium Online MMO. He is also an occasional guest at conventions and, since 2012, he has also been one of the curators of an annual "Art of RPGs" art show featuring the work of RPG artists.

List of Critical Role works

 * Critical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting — Publisher; credited as a staff member at Green Ronin Publishing