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"Mystics, Miracles, and Meditations"
DRAGON Magazine #236, December 1996, pp. 26-29.
Character kits and proficiencies for Mystics in TSR's Masque of
the Red Death (1890s Gothic horror) setting.
"Mysterious Cities"
DRAGON Magazine #240, October 1997, pp. 28-36.
History and "Forbidden Lore" of several cities of the 1890s, for
use with the Masque of the Red Death setting.
"Gothic Earth Villains"
DRAGON Magazine Annual #2, December 1997, pp. 112-118.
Gothic horror villains for use with Masque of the Red Death.
"Fantastic Phantasms"
DRAGON Magazine Annual #2, December 1997, pp. 10-14.
New illusion/phantasm spells for AD&D wizards.
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"The Sunken Shadow"
DUNGEON Adventures #66, January 1998, pp. 18-35.
An adventure involving a journey by ship and a dive to a coral
reef, haunted all the way by a were-eel.
"Miracles of Flight"
DRAGON Magazine #244, February 1998, pp. 76-82 (co-author).
New magical items for the AD&D game, all involving flight. Of
the 20 items described, I created 14, as well as writing the introductory
material for the article.
"Falls Run"
DUNGEON Adventures #67, March/April 1998, pp. 52-67.
An adventure for the Masque of the Red Death setting, involving
a ghost and a train derailment in West Virginia.
"Seeds of Evil"
DRAGON Magazine #249, July 1998, pp. 26-36.
Activity of the Red Death through history, combining the Masque
of the Red Death setting with TSR's Historical Reference books.
This article was cited in Bastion
of Faith, by Bruce Cordell.
"Heroes of the Sea"
DRAGON Magazine #250, August 1998, pp. 26-35.
Player character races for aquatic campaigns.
"The Maze of the Morkoth"
DUNGEON Adventures #70, September/October 1998, pp. 16-29.
An undersea adventure featuring aquatic characters created using
"Heroes of the Sea."
"With a Twist"
DRAGON Magazine #253, November 1998.
Ways to make races and cultures unique, and to define the relationship
between dominant and minority cultures in a fantasy world.
"The Beast Within"
RPGA Ravenloft retail play adventure, December 1998.
A horror adventure involving a werewolf and his scapegoats.
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"Haunting Melodies"
DRAGON Magazine #256, February 1999.
Thirteen spells of musical mystery.
"No One Can Hear You Scream"
DRAGON Magazine #258, April 1999.
Guidelines and examples for the use of horror in TSR's Alternity
science-fiction roleplaying game.
"Deepening Shadows"
RPGA Ravenloft retail play adventure, May 1999.
A horror adventure involving a mysterious shadow golem.
"Half-Pint Heroes"
DRAGON Magazine #262, August 1999.
Vertically challenged humanoids as player character races.
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"From Dungeons to Drivespace"
DRAGON Magazine #262, August 1999.
Guidelines and examples for converting AD&D monsters to the Alternity
game.
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"Heaven's Trump: Celestial Messengers and Divine Intervention"
DRAGON Magazine #263, September 1999.
Celestials as tools for the DM in adventure and campaign construction.
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"Van Richten's Legacy: The Cult of Simon Audaire"
DRAGON Magazine #264, October 1999.
The men in the Renier family tree are no better than the women.
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"Serfs"
in Horrors of the Z'bri, a Tribe 8 sourcebook,
October 1999.
Adding depth and detail to the once-human worshiper-slaves of
the demonic Z'bri.
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"Feathered Friends and Foes"
DRAGON Magazine #266, December 1999.
Four new shapechanging races related to the swanmay.
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"Deepstrike"
DUNGEON Adventures #78, January/February 2000.
An Alternity adventure featuring action and espionage in the Star*Drive
campaign setting.
Check out this awesome
full-color map!
"Alternative Underdarks"
DRAGON Magazine #267, January 2000.
Departing from the typical subterranean world.
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"Animal Companions"
DRAGON Magazine #269, March 2000.
Intelligent animals as character companions.
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"When Worlds Collide"
DRAGON Magazine #270, April 2000
Suggestions for moving a role-playing campaign from world to world
while maintaining campaign continuity.
"The Hidden Faces of Evil"
DRAGON Magazine #270, April 2000
Fiends as tempters, corrupters, and possessing spirits.
"Alternity: TOP SECRET"
DRAGON Magazine #271, May 2000
Careers, skills, and equipment for espionage in the Alternity
game.
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"Diminutive Dragons"
DRAGON Magazine #272, June 2000
Four new species of dragonet: crow's nest, geyser, mole, and pavilion
dragons.
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this article online.
"The Door to Darkness"
DUNGEON Adventures #81, July/August 2000
Dreadful apparitions terrorize guests at the Sleeping Dragon Inn.
An AD&D adventure for levels 1-9. Includes a poster map!
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cooler.)
Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook
Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide
Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual
Credited under "Other Wizards of the Coast RPG R&D Contributors,"
with the entire department, for input during the last stages of
the design process.
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"Unusual Suspects: Rangers, Paladins, and Barbarians"
DRAGON Magazine #275, September 2000
Exploring unusual combinations of race and class.
"Vs. Zombies"
DRAGON Magazine #276, October 2000
Strategy and tactics for fighting these undead, straight from
Fik's mouth. (Fik hates fighting zombies.)
Into the Dragon's Lair
by Steve Miller and Sean Reynolds, Wizards of the Coast, November
2000
Credited for "Additional Design and Development," for
helping to hammer out some character stats. I don't think any
of my monsters ended up in this book after all.
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"Unusual Suspects 2: Bards, Sorcerers, and Wizards"
DRAGON Magazine #277, November 2000
More unusual combinations of race and class.
"Class Combos"
DRAGON Magazine Annual #5, November 2000
Looking at multiclass combinations as if they were standard classes.
Also discusses "cheesy multiclasses" like taking a level
of rogue for the skill points or a level of fighter for the hit
points and bonus feat.
"Class Combos 2: Dwarves"
DRAGON Magazine #278, December 2000
Multiclass combinations especially for dwarves, including the
fighter/cleric/dwarven defender ("temple defender")!
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"Unusual Suspects 3: Monks and Druids"
DRAGON Magazine #279, January 2001
Continued explorations of unusual race and class combinations.
"Vs. Fiends"
DRAGON Magazine #279, January 2001
Strategy and tactics for fighting evil outsiders.
Wizards of the Coast, January 2001.
A 32-page adventure highlighting a city setting and a story-based
structure.
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Sword
and Fist: A Builder's Guide to Fighters and Monks
by Jason Carl and others, Wizards of the Coast, January 2001
I wrote about 5000 words of this book, including a combat example
(dueling), a section on monstrous fighters and monks, and the
Tribal Protector prestige class.
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"Vs. Sorcerers"
DRAGON Magazine #280, February 2001
Strategy and tactics for fighting sorcerers, including diagrams
of how to minimize the impact of a fireball.
Wizards of the Coast, February 2001.
Co-authored with Rob Heinsoo. A 96-page book with over a hundred
monsters aimed at all D&D players, particularly those who
use the Forgotten Realms campaign setting.
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Character Closeup: Juz'la
On www.wizards.com, February 2001.
This NPC spotlights a new monster template I wrote for Monsters
of Faerûn: the yuan-ti tainted one.
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it online.
Wizards of the Coast, May 2001.
Co-authored with Rich Redman. Another 96-page book, in the style
of Sword & Fist.
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"Champions of Virtue"
DRAGON Magazine #283, May 2001
Four deity-specific prestige classes: the Shining Blade of Heironeous,
the Radiant Servant of Pelor, the Fleet Runner of Ehlonna, and
the Mighty Contender of Kord.
"Playing the Priestly Part"
DRAGON Magazine #283, May 2001
Guidelines for making player and nonplayer priests more exciting.
by Sean Reynolds, Wizards of the Coast, May 2001.
Credited for "Additional Monster Design" for my work
in converting monsters that appear in this adventure.
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by Sean Reynolds, Ed Greenwood, Skip Williams, and Rob Heinsoo,
Wizards of the Coast, May 2001.
Credited for "Additional Design" for my work in converting
or creating monsters that appear in the final chapter of the book.
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Perilous Gateways: The Winding Serpent
Web feature at http://www.wizards.com, July 2001.
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by Sean Reynolds and Angel Leigh McCoy, Wizards of the Coast,
August 2001.
Credited for "Additional Design" for my writeup of mage
fairs in Faerûn.
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by Jeff Grubb, Bruce R. Cordell, and David Noonan, Wizards of
the Coast, September 2001.
Credited for "Additional Design" for my writeup of the
Spirit World, an alternative outer plane (drawn from Oriental
Adventures).
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Children of the Night: Demons
Compiled and published by the Kargatane, August 2001.
My contribution, "The Straw God," was the first to be
featured on the Kargatane website as a preview of the new Ravenloft
book.
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of the Night: Demons
Wizards of the Coast, September 2001.
A 256-page hardcover book featuring rules for playing D&D
in Asian-themed settings.
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"Oriental Adventures Class Combos"
DRAGON Magazine #289, November 2001.
Multiclass combinations for OA campaigns
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 Deities
and Demigods
Wizards of the Coast, April 2002.
Co-authored with Rich Redman and Skip Williams.
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Epic Level Handbook
Wizards of the Coast, July 2002.
Credited for additional design; I contributed about 20 pages
of this truly epic book (mostly in the monster section).
Read about it on wizards.com: Epic
Level Handbook FAQ
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"The Storm Lord's Keep"
DUNGEON Adventures #93, July/August 2002.
An epic-level (21st) adventure with a storm giant blackguard,
half-dragon rocs, a storm of vengeance, a castle in
a thunderhead, lots of cloud giants, and a divine secret.
 City of the Spider Queen
Wizards of the Coast, September 2002.
A super-adventure set in the Forgotten Realms.
Read about it on wizards.com: In
the Works
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"Hellish Fangs on Abyssal Wings"
DRAGON Magazine #300, October 2002.
Some fiendish dragons I wrote for (but cut out of) the Fiend Folio. They
will show up later in 2003. But it's hard to beat Sam Wood's art for this article,
illustrating the howling, pyroclastic, rust, Styx, and Tarterian dragons.
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"Monstrous Magic"
DRAGON Magazine #304, February 2003.
Spells (and psionic powers) specially designed for monster characters.
Arms & Equipment Guide
Wizards of the Coast, March 2003.
Lots of cool gear for your D&D character. I wrote 32 pages of
it, filling in gaps left by the other designers. I compiled some
existing magic items from previously-published adventures, wrote
new magic items, cursed items, intelligent items, and artifacts.
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 Fiend
Folio
Wizards of the Coast, April 2003.
Not the Monster Manual III, and not a collection of stupid monsters
put together by British people. No, it's a monster book with a
fiendish slant: not just evil outsiders, but other types of creatures
from the lower planes, just plain nasty monsters, prestige classes
for fiends, and more. Look carefully at my Mahasarpa
Campaign Journal: Anathema. Blackstone Gigant. Mmmmmm...
I don't know why I'm the only author listed for this. I was the
lead designer and lead developer, but these folks shouldn't be
consigned to oblivion: Eric Cagle, Jesse Decker, Matt Sernett,
Chris Thomasson, James Jacobs, and Erik Mona. They all did a fabulous
job.
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Revised Player's Handbook
Revised Dungeon Master's Guide
Revised Monster Manual
Wizards of the Coast, July 2003.
I don't have a significant design credit on any of these, but
I did a lot of work reviewing them.
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Manual.
"Incursion: A World Under Siege"
"Knights of the Lich-Queen"
DRAGON Magazine #309 and Polyhedron#59, July
2003.
The DRAGON article features a campaign arc that will
let you introduce a githyanki invasion to your home campaign,
whatever world it's set in. The Polyarticle is all about
playing githyanki characters, and includes a mini-campaign setting,
the world of Pharagos, as a bare-bones setting for the githyanki
invasion.
Dragonlance Campaign Setting
Wizards of the Coast, August 2003.
I was the lead developer for this book, which was written by Margaret
Weis and her colleagues at Sovereign Press. I put a whole lot
of effort into this book to make sure that the rules both work
well within the d20 System and are true to the Dragonlance world.
It's going to be a pretty awesome book, and by far the best campaign
setting treatment that Dragonlance has ever received.
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Miniatures Handbook
Wizards of the Coast, October 2003.
I didn't get a credit in this book, but I did some work on the
monsters—developing raw stats into fleshed-out critters
with names and such.
 Draconomicon
Wizards of the Coast, November 2003.
All about dragons! I coauthored this book with Skip Williams and
Andy Collins, in about equal parts—talk about good company!
My parts included playing dragon PCs, dragon prestige classes,
spells and magic items, and some material about dragons in combat.
It seems like the book is taking forever to come out—I finished
my work on it just over a year ago. But it will be worth the wait.
And the art is awesome.
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 Book
of Exalted Deeds
Wizards of the Coast, November 2003.
The good twin of last year's Book of Vile Darkness, this
book takes a good hard look at what it means to be a good guy
in the D&D world. Why is it a mature product? Primarily because
its mission was to look at morality in the D&D world from
a mature perspective. A lot of players don't want to think about
things like what to do with the orc babies. Few sorcerers would
try to convert a slaad lord to good, but Veshann
tried.
Whatever you thought of Book of Vile Darkness, don't judge
this one until you've seen what's inside. You might think of it
as the player's companion to a vile campaign, or as a guide to
the straight and narrow in a world of greed and violence. If you
use it, your campaign will be different. I hope it will be better.
Maybe you might even be better. Isn't this all about being a
hero?
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"Kara-Tur: Ancestor Feats and Martial Arts Styles"
DRAGON Magazine #315, January 2004.
One of the most consistent complaints I've received about Oriental
Adventures was a decision far beyond my control: making Rokugan
the default campaign setting rather than Kara-Tur. Well, this
article is a small step toward correcting that. I've always told
people that if they own the old Kara-Tur material (or buy it as
an electronic download from SV
Games) they can use the new OA rules with it pretty seamlessly.
But here are some rules to make it easier. Each nation of Kara-Tur
is treated as a human clan with its own ancestor feats, and the
martial arts styles from the Kara-Tur material are written up
in the same manner as the styles in OA.
"Masque of the Red Death: The Light in the Darkness"
DRAGON Magazine #315, January 2004.
Returning to my first love, I was thrilled to be able to do a
Masque update for this issue of DRAGON. I wrote
up prestige classes for two of the qabals described in A Guide
to Gothic Earth, La Lumière and the Fellowship of
the Crimson Dawn. Only the Luminaire fit in the magazine, but
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Player's Guide to Faerûn
Wizards of the Coast, March 2004.
This is the long-awaited 3.5 update for the Forgotten Realms,
but it's so much more than that. If that had been all this book
was, I would not have volunteered to write half the book as a
freelance project. The reason I leapt at the chance was all the
other stuff we crammed in this book.
Stuff like a DMG-style entry for every plane in the convoluted
cosmology of Faerûn, revised and expanded to address the
questions and concerns that the new cosmology has sparked over
the last three years. Like a chapter on using the Epic Level
Handbook in an FR game, and another chapter on vile and exalted
material (not mature content). Material on using psionics in FR.
Cool new prestige classes as well as revised versions of old ones.
The revised stuff is cool too, and in many cases much needed.
See, the reason that material is in a book like this and not in
a free update like we did for books like Deities & Demigods,
Manual of the Planes, Monster Manual II, and the Epic Level Handbook,
is that we really went back over the older material and revised
it. The 3.5
Accessory Update was based on the assumption that all those
books just needed some tweaking to make them compatible with the
revised rules. This book goes back over existing FR material and
subjects it to the same scrutiny that the Player's Handbook went
through. Broken spells are fixed, regional feats are attractive
again, prestige classes are cleaned up.
There's a lot of great material in this book.
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"Oriental Adventures 3.5"
DRAGON Magazine #318, April 2004.
The single most common question in my email in box these days
is, "When are we going to see a 3.5 update for Oriental
Adventures?" My answer has often been, "Well, I'm
thinking about doing it for DRAGON..." Now it's
done, it's turned in, and it's slated for the April issue. Look
for cuts from the article around the web, too... I ran really
long on this one.
Eberron Campaign Setting
Wizards of the Coast, June 2004.
Of all the projects I've worked on since I started work at Wizards
of the Coast nearly four years ago, this is my favorite.
My involvement started pretty early on. I volunteered to work
on it when we did our annual, "Hey, which of these projects
do you want to work on next year?" thing, and so I got involved
in meetings when the setting search was down to three entries.
Once folks with more authority than me picked Keith's entry, I
was in a lot of meetings with Bill Slavicsek and Chris Perkins
from the RPG group, Peter Archer and Mark Sehestedt from the book
department, and Keith himself to hammer out the shape of this
new world, using Keith's proposal as a starting point. It was
a fantastic collaboration—there's nothing quite like that
experience of sitting in a room with five brilliant people bouncing
ideas around, which is probably the single best thing about working
at Wizards.
My design work on the book consisted of most of the rules material—races,
classes, feats, spells, and some of the prestige classes and monsters.
My writing has been through a lot of development since I turned
it over in May, but I'm still quite proud of my work that's in
this book. In many ways, the development process was a continuation
of the great collaboration that started the process, with the
development team frequently bouncing their ideas off me to make
sure they weren't taking things too far away from the original
intent.
The biggest payoff so far has been sitting behind a mirrored
window watching Chris Perkins run an adventure for a focus group
of local RPGA members (who have been sworn to secrecy)—and
seeing how excited these grognards got about the setting. Give
it a look when it comes out—I think you'll be pleasantly
surprised.
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