Tom Jolly

Tom Jolly is a board game inventor.
Career.
Tom Jolly's games include "Wiz-War", "Drakon", "Cavetroll", "Light Speed", "Camelot", "Cargo", and he co-designed "DiskWars" and "Vortex/Maelstrom". Additional games he has designed include "Gootmu", "Knots", "WayWord", and "Got It!". The publisher of Wiz-War, Chessex, printed the fourth through the 7th editions of Wiz-War.The seventh edition, came out in 1997. The eighth edition was released by publisher Fantasy Flight Games in 2012. The first expansion set, Malefic Curses, came out in January 2014.
After Fantasy Flight Games published Jolly's "DiskWars" game in 1998, it was mashed up with Alderac Entertainment Group's Rokugan setting to produce "DiskWars: Legend of the Five Rings" (2000), and with Pinnacle Entertainment Group's "Deadlands" to produce "Doom Town Rang Wars" (2000). In January 2014, Diskwars was yet again revived in the form of Warhammer:Diskwars, combining Diskwars mechanics with the Warhammer fantasy world.
Tom Jolly has also written several short SF and Fantasy stories published by a variety of on-line and paper magazines. He has also designed over 40 puzzles, produced by a number of companies and woodcrafters around the world.
Jolly lives in California with his wife, having retired from his career as a electrical engineer.