Daniel Mersey

Designer Writer

Wargames designer and writer behind Osprey's Rampant family: Lion Rampant, Dragon Rampant and Xenos Rampant. Also The Men Who Would Be Kings, The Pikeman's Lament and Rebels and Patriots.

Daniel Mersey wrote Lion Rampant, the medieval wargame from Osprey Games, and the games that grew out of it: Dragon Rampant for fantasy and Xenos Rampant for sci-fi. His other Osprey rulebooks include Dux Bellorum, The Men Who Would Be Kings, The Pikeman’s Lament, Bugles to the West, and Rebels and Patriots (with Michael Leck).

He’s been writing books, gaming articles and rulesets since the 1990s. Lion Rampant and Dragon Rampant were both Origins Award nominees, Lion Rampant: Second Edition won the 2023 Origins Award for Best Miniatures Game, and Rebels and Patriots won a UK Games Expo Judges’ Award. In 2021 he was appointed the University of Edinburgh’s first Games Designer in Residence.

Games

The Second Edition cover: a horned warrior swinging a warhammer clashes with a green orc as a huge red dragon breathes fire behind them and an orc horde surges forward

Dragon Rampant

Daniel Mersey's fantasy battle game from Osprey, the fantasy sibling of Lion Rampant. Field a warband of a handful of units from whatever fantasy miniatures you own, with magic, monsters and a campaign system in the Second Edition.

Army · Mini-agnostic · $25

The Second Edition cover: a knight in a red surcoat with a white rampant lion rears his horse under a matching banner, while a crossbowman and men-at-arms fight around him in front of a burning tower

Lion Rampant

Daniel Mersey's medieval wargame from Osprey. Lead a warband of about six units through raids, escorts and ambushes, anywhere from the Fall of Rome to the Hundred Years' War. Winner of the 2023 Origins Award for Best Miniatures Game.

Army · Mini-agnostic · $21