# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ron-edwards
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:54:09.299Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ron-edwards"
name: "Ron Edwards"
slug: "ron-edwards"
description: "Ronald Edwards  is a game designer involved in the indie role-playing game (RPG) community, and a game theorist. He created the Sorcerer role-playing game, the GNS theory of gameplay, and The Big Model. Edwards is also co-founder of The Forge, an online community to support indie RPG design and publication."
tagline: "American game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ron_Edwards_-_Lucca_Comics_%26_Games_2018_02.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1964-09-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.22
  momentum:             15.3601108033241
  historical:           5.013464
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.sorcerer-rpg.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Edwards_(Autor)"
    title: "Ron Edwards (Autor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Edwards_(game_designer)"
    title: "Ron Edwards (game designer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Edwards"
    title: "Ron Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Edwards"
    title: "Ron Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Edwards_(spelontwerper)"
    title: "Ron Edwards (spelontwerper)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q322538"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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