BEST TABLETOP GAME DESIGNERS OF ALL TIME
BEST TABLETOP GAME DESIGNERS OF ALL TIME
(20/41: 1985) ANDERS BLIXT
— The Dreamsmith
Score: 20 points (1985) | Invention: 4 | Architecture: 6 | Mastery: 7 | Adjustments: +3
Drakar och Demoner Expert: The d20 That Defined a Nation
Drakar och Demoner Expert, published in 1985 and co-designed by Blixt and Lars-Åke Thor, was a comprehensive redesign. It was a genuine regional innovation that shaped how an entire nation experienced role-playing. The d20 skill system in Expert was significant but did not travel beyond Sweden. Expert Nova is a descendant of that work, showing Blixt’s capacity to refine systems over decades. At age sixty, returning to design after a transition away from tech-writing, Blixt distilled four decades into an intentionally lightweight and modular classic Swedish tradition.
