Joshua A.C. Newman

Joshua A.C. Newman is an American role-playing game designer.

Career

Newman is the designer of the Indie role-playing games Under the Bed (2005), Shock: Social Science Fiction (2006), Beowulf (2008), Shock: Human Contact (2010), and The Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze (2016).

In 2012, Joshua A.C. Newman worked with Vincent Baker on a new version of the Mechaton rules as Mobile Frame Zero 001: Rapid Attack (2012), and Newman was able to use this for a successful Kickstarter. Rapid Attack was followed by Mobile Frame Zero 002: Intercept Orbit, a carrier-based spaceship battle game in the same universe.

Roleplaying bibliography

• Under the Bed
• Shock: Social Science Fiction
• Shock: Human Contact
• Beowulf

Newman has also contributed to the book design of several other indie roleplaying games.

• Dogs in the Vineyard
• The Mountain Witch
• Bliss Stage
• Misspent Youth