{{Short description|American game designer}} {{Infobox person |name = Ross Isaacs |image = |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = |birth_place = |spouse = |other_names = |known_for = |education = |employer = |occupation = Game designer |website = }}
'''Ross A. Isaacs''' is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
==Career== Ross Isaacs had done freelance work for Alderac Entertainment Group and Chaosium and went on to do extensive work with Holistic Designs.<ref name="designers">{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}</ref>{{rp|315}} Isaacs contributed to the ''Nephilim'' line from Chaosium, and joined Last Unicorn Games (LUG) soon afterwards.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|93}} As a new employee at LUG, Isaacs did the initial design work on the "Icon" system for their ''Star Trek'' role-playing games, and after ''Icon'' was complete, he was made line developer for the ''Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game'' (1998).<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|315}} Isaacs remained with Last Unicorn when the company was bought first by Wizards of the Coast and then by Decipher, Inc. and in February 2001 Decipher offered positions in their new role-playing department to the remaining staff of Last Unicorn.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|317}} Isaacs eventually returned to New York, where he worked for Eden Studios.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|318}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=What and Who is Eden Studios |url=http://www.edenstudios.net:80/edeninfo.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040603035322/http://www.edenstudios.net:80/edeninfo.htm |archive-date=2004-06-03 |access-date=2025-09-09 |website=www.edenstudios.net}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{cite web|url=http://pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=1652 |title=Ross Isaacs :: Pen & Paper RPG Database|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519224957/http://pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=1652|archivedate=May 19, 2007}}
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