Jim Bambra (born 1956)[1] is a British designer and reviewer of fantasy roleplaying games (RPG), and a former company director.
[citation needed] In 1983, Bambra wrote "The Beginner’s Guide to Roleplaying Games" (with Paul Ruiz), published in Imagine magazine Issue 6 (Sept 1983),[3] explaining what an RPG is and accompanied by a comic strip, "The Adventures of Nic Novice".
[citation needed] In 1989, Bambra co-wrote the Fighting Fantasy gamebook Dead of Night for Puffins, a Penguin inprint, with Stephen Hand.
During the 1990s he was Head of Design at MicroProse, where he worked on projects including Fields of Glory, Grand Prix, Special Forces, various X-COM products, and Gunship.
[8] Between 2005 and 2009 he was also a board member of The Independent Games Developers Association Ltd.[9] Jim Bambra produced the following gamebooks and materials for roleplaying games, many in collaboration with other authors: Echoes of the Jedi: Episode IV of Star Wars: Dawn of Defiance was dedicated to "Jim Bambra and all the unsung authors of the early Star Wars Expanded Universe".