1. In 2015 Tweet released Grandmother Fish, a full-color, full-sized book about evolution aimed at preschoolers.
17 Facts About Jonathan Tweet
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In 2018 Jonathan Tweet released Clades and Clades Prehistoric, two card games for children and adults which demonstrate the concept of a clade.
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Jonathan Tweet then formed his own gaming group by recruiting classmates.
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Jonathan Tweet graduated from Rock Island High School class valedictorian in 1983.
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Jonathan Tweet majored in psychology and sociology at his parents' alma mater, St Olaf College in Minnesota.
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Jonathan Tweet left Lion Rampant and briefly left the RPG industry in 1989 to begin a new career.
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Jonathan Tweet wrote Festival of the Damned, an adventure published by Atlas Games for Ars Magica.
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Jonathan Tweet continued to run a game he created called "Al Amarja" for a group in Rock Island, Illinois, and wrote about the game in articles published in Alarums and Excursions; when John Nephew read these articles he wanted to publish the game, and the result was Over the Edge, the first original game from Atlas Games.
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Nephew and Jonathan Tweet designed On the Edge, a collectible card game based on Over the Edge.
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Jonathan Tweet joined Wizards of the Coast as a full-time employee in June 1994, and brought about new product lines for the company beginning with Ars Magica, which Jonathan Tweet recommended Wizards to acquire.
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Jonathan Tweet designed Everway, which was first published by Wizards of the Coast in 1995.
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Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, and Skip Williams all contributed to the 3rd edition Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Monster Manual, and then each designer wrote one of the books based on those contributions.
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Jonathan Tweet oversaw the Chainmail Miniatures Game design team, and Skaff Elias was responsible for the main design work and Chris Pramas created the game world.
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On December 2,2008, Jonathan Tweet was laid off from Wizards of the Coast.
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In 2015 Jonathan Tweet published Grandmother Fish, a Kickstarter-funded book described as "the first book to teach evolution to preschoolers".
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An atheist since grade school, Jonathan Tweet has devoted much of his personal website to his views on religion, in particular on the historical Jesus.
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Jonathan Tweet continues to live in the Seattle area with his daughter.