Skaff Elias
| Skaff Elias | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Skaff Elias is a game designer.
Career
Skaff Elias was at Wizards of the Coast working on Magic: The Gathering since the early days of the company.[1]:287 He was one of the designers for various Magic sets, including Arabian Nights (December 1993),[2] Antiquities (March 1994),[3] Legends (June 1994),[3] Fallen Empires (November 1994),[4] and Ice Age (June 1995),[4] Mark Rosewater also credits Skaff Elias with the invention of the Magic Pro Tour.[5]
Elias did the main design work for the Chainmail miniatures game.[1]:289 Elias and Richard Garfield designed an MMORPG based on Dungeons & Dragons, which was never published because Hasbro folded up the D&D computer rights into Hasbro Interactive and then sold them to Infogrames, leaving Wizards with no rights to publish D&D computer games.[1]:289
He co-authored the D&D manual Miniatures Handbook (2003).
Elias and Garfield also worked on Mind Twist, a free-to-play strategy game from Mind Control Software.[6]
References
- 1 2 3 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702- 58-7.
- ↑ Elias, Skaff (9 August 2002). "Better Late Than Never". Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
- 1 2 Elias, Skaff (8 March 2002). "Legendary Difficulties". Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- 1 2 Rosewater, Mark (9 February 2009). "Whatever Happened to Barry's Land?". Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ↑ Rosewater, Mark (26 July 2004). "On Tour, Part 1". Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved 11 January 2008.
- ↑ Richard Garfield and Skaff Elias join forces with Mind Control Software on ground-breaking Online strategy game