Scott Jennings

Scott Jennings has been playing roleplaying games since 1976, when at the age of ten, during a game that had just come out called Dungeons & Dragons, he lost his first character, a 1st-level wizard, to a balrog. He’s been complaining about poor game balance ever since. More recently, he has been involved in the massively multiplayer gaming world in various capacities. In 1999, he posted tales of his various frustrations and amusements with “Ultima Online” on a web site, which he named the “Rantings of Lum the Mad” after his character. Over the next three years, as the number of people who played MMORPGs grew, the combination of humor and commentary on Scott’s website proved popular, both with the players and the creators of these games, including Richard “Lord British” Garriott, whom Scott first met during an Ultima Online player gathering. Over ten years later, he’s still working behind the scenes of online games, in both programming and design. He can’t think of a more fulfilling career than to tinker at the machinery that makes worlds tick.

Trivia

 * Lum was the first dev known to publicly kill another dev.