Jack Herman
| Jack Herman | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Jack Herman is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career
In the late 1970s, Jack Herman and Jeff Dee co-created Villains and Vigilantes, the first complete superhero role-playing game.[1] The game was published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1979.[2]:73 Dee and Herman convinced Scott Bizar to produce a second edition, which was published in 1982.[2]:75
When Bizar began publishing a number of original PDFs for Villains and Vigilantes for three through his website in 2010, Dee and Herman contended that they had contracted with FGU Inc., not Bizar, and that this means that Bizar no longer had the rights to publish V&V; the two sent Bizar a cease-and-desist letter in June 2010, instructing him that he was no longer allowed to sell their games, and then Dee and Herman published version 2.1 of Villains & Vigilantes (2010) under their new Monkey House Games brand.[2]:77 Dee and Herman founded Monkey House Games to recover Villains and Vigilantes, and their company is a partner of Cubicle 7.[2]:430 As of early 2011, Bizar had refused a license that would give him the right to continue publishing Villains & Vigilantes material and had also refused arbitration with Dee and Herman, although Dee and Herman say it's required by their contract.[2]:77