Jeff Grubb

2 universes Last reviewed 2026-08-06

Jeff Grubb is an American writer and game designer born August 27, 1957, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, renowned for creating influential fantasy role-playing settings including Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, and Spelljammer while working at TSR, Inc. He joined TSR as a design consultant in 1982 and went freelance in 1994, continuing to create content for Wizards of the Coast after its acquisition of TSR. He was principal architect of the Marvel Super Heroes game system in 1984, designed the Al-Qadim setting, and wrote the Manual of the Planes (1987) and the d20 Modern role-playing game. His novels include the Finder's Stone Trilogy co-authored with his wife Kate Novak -- Azure Bonds (1988), The Wyvern's Spur (1990), and Song of the Saurials (1991) -- as well as Lord Toede (1994), The Brothers' War (1998), The Last Guardian (2001), Liberty's Crusade (2001), and Ghosts of Ascalon (2010). His output spans over a dozen novels and 30 short stories across multiple fictional universes including Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms.

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Books

• Azure Bonds (1988) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Wyvern's Spur (1990) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Song of the Saurials (1991) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Lord Toede (1994) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• Masquerades (1995) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Cormyr: A Novel (1996) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Finder's Bane (1997) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Tymora's Luck (1997) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon

Aggregate across all universes

These are separate, unrelated universes; the totals below are plain sums of already-published per-universe facts, never a blended or averaged score across them. See each universe's own figures above.

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 57 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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