Alex Fennell
| Alex Fennell | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Alexander Fennell is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career
Alex Fennell was a Captain in the British army.[1]:394 When he was on his way out of the army in late 2000, and was considering his next career, Fennell met Matthew Sprange in a pub in Swindon, England, who suggested starting a game company.[1]:394 Fennell was unconvinced and instead joined a 3G (third generation) mobile communication company.[1]:394 After six months of working in mobile communications, Fennell was interested in taking on a more creative job, and when Sprange contacted him about forming the game company Mongoose Publishing to publish adventures under Wizards of the Coast's d20 license, Fennell joined him.[1]:394 Thanks to good sales on their first product, The Slayer's Guide to Hobgoblins (2001), Fennell gave up his day job and became Mongoose's first employee with Sprange joining him a month later.[1]:394 Fennell used his saved army wages to make sure the company could pay to publish a book a month, even before they started getting payments back from distributors.[1]:394 Fennell left Mongoose in 2009.[1]:402