13 Facts About Allen Varney

Allen Varney was born on 1958 and is an American writer and game designer.

Allen Varney was born in St Louis, Missouri and was raised by his mother, Marcelene Allen Varney.

Allen Varney designed the game Necromancer, which was published by Steve Jackson Games.

Allen Varney wrote Son of Toon, the third supplement to the Toon RPG.

Warren Spector and Allen Varney wrote the supplement Send in the Clones for the Paranoia role-playing game from West End Games.

Allen Varney did work for TSR from 1987 to 1992, including the "Blood Brethren" trilogy and Five Coins for a Kingdom, Wildspace for Spelljammer, Veiled Alliance for Dark Sun, and several gamebooks, the Ariya, Binsada, and Talinie realm packs for Birthright.

Allen Varney edited modules for the Ravenloft, Planescape, and Forgotten Realms settings, and was a game reviewer and news columnist for Dragon magazine.

Allen Varney served as the line editor for a new version of the roleplaying game Paranoia, published in 2004 by Mongoose Publishing.

Allen Varney wrote the new rules and packaged the game's support line with the help of his "Traitor Recycling Studio" until 2006 when Mongoose put the game line on hold.

Allen Varney has long been involved in the game design and documentation for companies such as Origin Systems, Interplay, Prodigy, Acclaim Entertainment, Looking Glass Technologies, MicroProse, and Sony Online Entertainment.

Allen Varney wrote character dialogue for Star Wars Galaxies, and worked again with Warren Spector on Epic Mickey.

In 1993, Allen Varney designed an expansion set for Magic: The Gathering.

Allen Varney has participated in the Texas Juggling Society at the University of Texas since 1985.