Joshua Eric Sawyer (born October 18, 1975), more commonly known and credited as Josh Sawyer, J.E. Sawyer, or JSawyer, is an American video game designer, known for his contributions to role-playing video games. Sawyer's work as a designer began with the Icewind Dale series in the early 2000s; he was later a project director on games like Fallout: New Vegas (2010), as well as Pillars of Eternity (2015) and its sequel, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire (2018). Sawyer was also the game director and narrative director of Pentiment (2022), an adventure role-playing game. Since 2005, he has been employed by Obsidian Entertainment, where he holds the position of studio design director.