Professional History
Dale A. Donovan, sometimes credited as Dale Donovan, is a game designer specialized in role-playing games. He started his career in 1989 working for TSR, Inc.'s Dragon magazine as an assistant editor and continued contributing to Dragon until 2005 (at which point Dragon had been acquired by Wizards of the Coast). He worked as a freelance for other gaming companies, including Fast Forward Entertainment, Green Ronin Publishing, Guardians of Order, Sword & Sorcery Studios, Valar Project, and White Wolf.[1] He was interviewed in Dragon #210 (1994). Donovan has continued working after that, co-autoring Warriors & Warlocks for Green Ronin's game "Mutants & Masterminds" as recently as 2009.[2]
While working for TSR, Inc., Donovan contributed to several products of the Marvel Super Heroes Role-Playing Game, including the design development of Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe #8 (1992) and writing several articles for Dragon, either solo or co-authoring them with Steven E. Schend.