Croc (game designer)

Croc
Croc in 2015
Croc in 2015
BornChristophe Réaux
(1965-12-16) December 16, 1965 (age 58)
France
OccupationGame designer
NationalityFrench
GenreRole-playing games
Years active1986–present

Christophe Réaux (born December 16, 1965, France)[1] largely and mainly known by the pseudonym Croc, is a French games designer, specialized in role-playing games (RPG) although he also has designed at least both a board game (L'Âge des dieux, Age of Gods[2]) and a miniatures game (Hell Dorado[3]). He is considered in his own country as a role-playing games pioneer and one of the most important designers in the ambit of such games.[4] Croc's games are edited by Siroz (a homophone of the French word cirrhose, meaning "cirrhosis"), now called Asmodée éditions, French for Asmodeus. Croc met the founders of Siroz (Nicolas Théry, Éric Bouchaud and Laurent Tremmel) in the "20 Naturel" RPG club of Vélizy (near Versailles) in the mid-1980s at secondary school (high school).

One of his games, In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas[5] (1989), led to the less controversial English-language game, In Nomine.

  1. ^ "Croc's birthdate as stated by himself in his own personal page on Copains d'avant, a French social network website". Copainsdavant.linternaute.com. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  2. ^ Age of Gods, official title in English, as mentioned in the specialized website Boardgamegeek.com
  3. ^ Hell Dorado, official title both in French and English editions, as mentioned in the specialized website Boardgamegeek.com
  4. ^ "Croc interview ("Entretien avec Croc")". Scifi-universe.com web magazine (in French). December 23, 2006. (on the upcoming release of Croc's miniatures game Hell Dorado)
  5. ^ Caïra, Olivier (2007). Jeux de rôle: les forges de la fiction (in French). CNRS. pp. 16–18. ISBN 978-2-271-06497-4. Retrieved 25 April 2011.