Chris Avellone is a freelance video game writer and narrative designer. He has worked on FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS as the senior designer as well as FALLOUT 2 & 3. He worked on all ICEWIND DALE titles, on STAR WARD: KNIGHTSOF THE OLD REPUBLIC II and NEVERWITNER NIGHTS 2 and on the action role-playing game ALPHA PROTOCOL, to name a few. He was a lead designer at Interplay Entertainment until he left to co-found Obsidian Entertainment in 2003 where he was creative director / CCO until May 2015.