# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-mentzer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:15:48.893Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-mentzer"
name: "Frank Mentzer"
slug: "frank-mentzer"
description: "Jacob Franklin Mentzer III is an American fantasy author and game designer who worked on early materials for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game. He was an employee of TSR, Inc. from 1980 to 1986, spending part of that time as creative advisor to the chairman of the board, Gary Gygax. He also founded the Role-Playing Games Association (RPGA) during his time with TSR."
tagline: "American writer and game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Mentzer_-_Lucca_Comics_%26_Games_2014_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.288050666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Франк Менцер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "فرانك مينتزير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B2%D8%B1"
    title: "فرانک مونتزر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%84%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC"
    title: "フランク・メンツァー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Mentzer"
    title: "Frank Mentzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Mentzer"
    title: "Frank Mentzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3751877"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump