Russ Morrissey


Russ Morrissey, also known as Morrus, is a British reporter, game designer, podcaster, author and owner of EN World. Morrissey, founded the ENnie Awards in 2001, which he ran until 2018. He also founded the book publisher EN Publishing, and the tabletop gaming news website EN World, both of which he runs currently.

Career

EN World and EN Publishing

Morrissey wrote his first tabletop RPG at the age of 14 in 1984. He founded d20reviews.com in 1999, which was renamed EN World, also known as Morrus' Unofficial Tabletop RPG News in 2001, a tabletop RPG news website and community. Also in 2001, Morrissey founded the publishing company EN Publishing and has gone on to publish over 300 books under the brand.
In 2014 under EN Publishing, Morrissey wrote and published the W.O.I.N. Roleplaying Game System.
In 2014, he was a judge on the Paizo design competition RPG Superstar.
In February of 2017 Morrissey announced that he would be creating the new officially licensed Judge Dredd roleplaying game. This was later crowdfunded on Kickstarter in late 2018 and successfully funded with over 2000 backers. The Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD roleplaying game was released immediately after the Kickstarter campaign and uses the W.O.I.N. system developed by Morrissey several years earlier.

The ENnies

Morrissey founded the Gen Con EN World RPG Awards in 2001, which he ran until 2018. The ENnies were created as an annual fan-based award for tabletop role-playing game products, and since 2002 were hosted at Gen Con in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The Perturbed Dragon & Battle of the Bards

In 2012, Morrissey and his brother Darren Morrissey co-wrote a six-part animated cartoon series called The Perturbed Dragon. This comedy series played on the tropes and cliches of tabletop gaming, and culminated in a music competition called Battle of the Bards.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk

In 2018 Morrissey launched a tabletop news and sketch comedy podcast called Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk, which has run for over 100 episodes. The show is presented by Morrissey and his co-host Peter Coffey, and features weekly guests and topics. Morrus' Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk is currently funded through Patreon. The podcast has include guests such as Keith Baker, Robert Marinner-Dodds, Owen K.C. Stephens, Dominic McDowall-Thomas, Chris Spivey, Monte Cook, and Ryan Dancey.

Media Mentions

Russ Morrissey has appeared on the following podcasts, radio shows, videos, and articles.