Clinton R. Nixon is a designer and publisher of indie role-playing games.
He is the designer and publisher of The Shadow of Yesterday, Donjon,Paladin, and others.
He co-administered the Forge with Ron Edwards, after they resurrected the site in early 2001 at indie-rpgs.com, and over the next six years they made the site successful. Nixon is a proponent of independent publishing in general and independent game publishing in particular.
Nixon has worked in software development, including programming for startup companies such as Lulu and directing a team of developers for the web consulting firm Viget. He started his own web development company in 2011.