Don Perrin

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-08-06

Don Perrin is a Canadian author and game designer born October 1, 1964, in Iserlohn, Germany, who grew up in Kingston, Ontario; McMasterville, Quebec; Bromley, Kent, England; and Ottawa, Ontario. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1987 and served in the Canadian Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers within Canada's Department of National Defence before becoming Vice President of Operations at Mag Force 7, Inc. Perrin designed three collectible trading card games and co-designed the Sovereign Stone role-playing game in 1998 with Lester Smith, and he contributed starship rules to the fourth edition of the Traveller role-playing game in 1996. He co-founded Sovereign Press with his former wife, author Margaret Weis, and helped develop the Dragonlance Campaign Setting in 2003. His Dragonlance novels include The Doom Brigade (1996), Brothers in Arms (1999), and Draconian Measures (2000), and he co-authored Mag Force 7 tie-in novels with Weis. A nonfiction publication he wrote for Historical Miniature Gamer Magazine won the Nonfiction Publication of the Year Award at the 32nd Annual Origins Awards. Perrin later remarried, wedding Kathryn Plamback in Las Vegas in 2016, where he currently resides.

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Books

• Theros Ironfeld (1996) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• The Doom Brigade (1998) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• Brothers in Arms (1999) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• Draconian Measures (2000) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 17 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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