Jeremy Crawford

Jeremy Crawford is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. He was the Lead Rules Designer for the 4th Edition of Wizards of the Coast's tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, and one of the Lead Designers of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.

Green Ronin Publishing (2005–2007)
Jeremy Crawford co-designed and edited the Blue Rose (2005) role-playing game along with Steve Kenson for Green Ronin Publishing. Blue Rose won the 2005 ENnie Awards for "Best Rules" and "Best d20 Game". Crawford is credited on the updated edition of Blue Rose (2017) as it carried forward parts of the setting design from the original edition. He also worked on the second edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and Mutants & Masterminds.

Wizards of the Coast (2007–present)
He was hired by Wizards of the Coast in 2007 as a game designer for their flagship Dungeons & Dragons product, and has worked there since then. His Dungeons & Dragons design credits include Player's Handbook 2 (2009), Dungeon Master's Kit (2010), and Heroes of the Fallen Lands (2010).

He was the rules manager for the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Development on a new edition started in 2011 and Crawford became the Co-Lead Designer, along with Mike Mearls, of the 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Crawford also became the lead rules developer and managing editor of the edition. Under Crawford and Mearls, there became a concerted effort to boost inclusiveness both in the game and in the development of the game. The 5th Edition version of the game credits women as contributors to its design more than any previous one: about 26 percent are female, as opposed to 20 percent in 4th Edition and 12 percent in 3rd Edition. The Mary Sue reported that under this new direction, 40% of Dungeons & Dragons players in 2018 are women which is an increase "from 2012, when women made up 20–25% of players". He is credited as one of the authors of the Player's Handbook for the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons, along with several other books in the edition. He also wrote the monthly "Sage Advice" newsletter. He is lead designer on the upcoming 2024 Revised 5th Edition Player's Handbook.

In 2024, Crawford won the Gayming Icon Award for his Dungeons & Dragons game design.

Personal life
Crawford is openly gay, and married his husband Phillip Lienau in 2014.