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Chris Avellone
Avellone in 2009
Born	United States
Known for	Writing and designing role-playing video games

Chris Avellone (/\u02c8\u00e6v\u0259lo\u028an/) is an American video game designer and comic book writer. He is known for his significant roles on a large number of video games, primarily role-playing video games, praised for their writing across his three-decade career.\n

Avellone joined Interplay in 1995 and was one of the designers of Fallout 2 (1998) and the lead designer of Planescape: Torment (1999), the latter of which has been regarded as \"one of the best-written and most imaginative video games ever created\".^[1] After departing Interplay in 2003, he became one of the co-founders and the chief creative officer of Obsidian Entertainment, where he was the lead designer of Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (2004) and a senior designer on Fallout: New Vegas (2010). From 2012 on, he was involved with some of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter, becoming known as a \"human stretch goal\".^[2]\n

Avellone departed Obsidian in 2015 and has since worked as a freelancer for various companies on games such as Prey (2017), Divinity: Original Sin II (2017), Pathfinder: Kingmaker (2018), Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019) and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (2021).\n

In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time^[3] and by Gamasutra as one of the top 20 game writers.^[4] In 2017, he was named by GamesTM as one of the then 50 most influential people in gaming.^[5]\n

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Year\n	Title\n	Role(s)\n
1996\n	Conquest of the New World	Designer\n
1997\n	Star Trek: Starfleet Academy	Additional mission design\n
1998\n	Descent to Undermountain	Lead creative designer level design \n
Fallout 2	Designer\n
1999\n	Planescape: Torment	Lead designer lead writer \n
2000\n	Icewind Dale	Designer\n
2001\n	Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter	Designer\n
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance	Senior designer\n
2002\n	Icewind Dale II	Designer\n
2004\n	Champions of Norrath	Level designer script doctor \n
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II	Lead designer lead writer \n
2006\n	Neverwinter Nights 2	Senior designer\n
2007\n	Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer	Senior designer\n
2010\n	Alpha Protocol	Lead designer lead writer \n
Fallout: New Vegas	Senior designer^[161]^[149] project lead on most of the DLC \n
2014\n	FTL: Advanced Edition	Writer\n
Wasteland 2	Area designer\n
2015\n	Pillars of Eternity	Writer\n
2016\n	Tyranny	Original world and story design\n
2017\n	Torment: Tides of Numenera	Writer\n
Prey	Writer\n
Divinity: Original Sin II	Additional narrative designer\n
2018\n	Into the Breach	Writer\n
Pathfinder: Kingmaker	Narrative designer^[285]\n
Omensight	Writer^[286]\n
2019\n	Degrees of Separation	Writer\n
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order	Writer\n
2021\n	Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous	Narrative designer\n
2022\n	Weird West	Additional design\n
2024\n	Alaloth: Champions of the Four Kingdoms	Creative consultant writer \n
TBA\n	Burden of Command	Advisor^[287]\n

v t e Black Isle Studios
Baldur's Gate	\n Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II \n Baldur's Gate III: The Black Hound (canceled) \n
Fallout series	\n Fallout \n Fallout 2 \n Van Buren (canceled) \n
Icewind Dale series	\n Icewind Dale\n Heart of Winter \n Icewind Dale II \n
Other games	\n Planescape: Torment \n Torn (canceled) \n
People	\n Feargus Urquhart \n Jason D. Anderson \n Chris Avellone \n Leonard Boyarsky \n Josh Sawyer \n

v t e Torment games
Entries	\n Planescape: Torment \n Torment: Tides of Numenera \n
Settings	\n Planescape\n Faction \n Sigil \n Numenera \n
Companies	\n Interplay Entertainment \n Black Isle Studios \n inXile Entertainment \n
People	\n Chris Avellone \n David \"Zeb\" Cook \n Monte Cook \n Brian Fargo \n Colin McComb \n

v t e Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
\n Star Wars \n
Video games	\n Knights of the Old Republic (2003) \n Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (2004) \n The Old Republic (2011\u2013present)\n Rise of the Hutt Cartel (2013) \n
Characters	\n HK-47 \n Kreia \n
Comics	\n Knights of the Old Republic (2006\u20132010) \n The Old Republic (2010\u20132011) \n
Novels	\n The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance (2010) \n The Old Republic: Revan (2011) \n The Old Republic: Annihilation (2012) \n
Related	\n Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes (2015) \n The Sith Lords Restored Content Modification \n The High Republic\n The Acolyte \n
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v t e Prey
\n Human Head Studios \n 2K Games \n Bethesda Softworks \n
Video games	\n Prey (2006) \n Prey 2 \n Prey Invasion \n
People	\n Gary Whitta \n Chris Rhinehart \n
Related	\n Cherokee culture \n Prey (2017) \n

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Early life

Career

1993-2003: Tabletop games and Interplay

Early projects, Fallout 2 and Planescape: Torment

Icewind Dale series, Van Buren and collaborations with Snowblind

2003-2015: Chief creative officer at Obsidian Entertainment

Founding of Obsidian, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II and Neverwinter Nights 2

Alpha Protocol and Fallout: New Vegas

Forays into crowdfunding and final projects at Obsidian

2015-present: Freelance writing and design

Misconduct accusations and retraction

Works

Video games

Comics

Star Wars

Fallout

Prose fiction

Tabletop role-playing game modules

References

Sources

External links

Chris Avellone

Chris Avellone

Talk channels

Chris Avellone's Talks