F. Wesley Schneider Explained

F. Wesley Schneider
Birth Place:United States
Occupation:Game designer, author
Language:English
Nationality:American
Citizenship:United States
Genre:Fantasy, horror
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F. Wesley Schneider is an American game designer and author known for his work on Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). He was the co-lead designer on the D&D 5th Edition adventure anthology Journeys through the Radiant Citadel (2022), which was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing,[1] the 2023 Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming,[2] and 2023 ENNIE Awards for Best Adventure and Best Product.[3]

Career

Schneider joined Paizo Inc. as an assistant editor on Dragon magazine in 2003. With James Jacobs he was one of the architects of the Pathfinder Adventure Path series.[4] He has written numerous adventures and sourcebooks such as Seven Days to the Grave, Book of the Damned: Princes of Darkness, Rule of Fear and others. He was promoted to editor-in-chief in 2012.

Schneider is the author of Pathfinder Tales: Bloodbound and the novella Guilty Blood. His other fiction has appeared in Pathfinder Adventure Path and Eclipse Phase: After the Fall.[5]

In May 2016, Schneider was announced as a Gen Con Industry Insider Featured Presenter.[6]

In July 2016, it was announced that Schneider would be working with Stranger Comics to produce a Vampire Hunter D supplement for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.[7] In May 2017, Schneider left his role as editor-in-chief at Paizo Inc[8] and ran his own company for two years.

He later became employed by Wizards of the Coast, first as a developer for Dungeons & Dragons,[9] and then as a senior game designer for Dungeons & Dragons.[10] From 2019 to 2022, Schneider was a writer on several Unearthed Arcana playtest releases for the 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons. He was a designer and editor on the supplemental sourcebook Tasha's Cauldron of Everything (2020),[11] and an editor on the supplemental sourcebook Fizban's Treasury of Dragons (2021)[12] and the campaign setting sourcebook (2021).[13]

Schneider was the co-lead designer, with James Wyatt, on the campaign setting sourcebook Mythic Odysseys of Theros (2020).[14] He was then the lead designer on the campaign setting sourcebook Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (2021).[15] [16]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ajit George, a writer on Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, pitched a new project idea to Schneider and Jeremy Crawford, D&D's Lead Rules Designer. This project became the adventure anthology Journeys through the Radiant Citadel (2022), with George and Schneider as the book's co-lead designers.[17] [18]

Journeys through the Radiant Citadel (2022) was the first official "anthology of D&D adventures to be written entirely by Black and brown authors" published by Wizards of the Coast.[19] [20] Schneider's work on Journeys through the Radiant Citadel was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing in March 2023, the 2023 Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming, and 2023 ENNIE Awards for Best Adventure and Best Product.

In 2022, Schneider was the lead designer on the adventure module (2022).[21] [22]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Farrell . Rebecca Gomez . March 7, 2023 . SFWA Names the 58th Nebula Award Finalists . March 8, 2023 . . en-US . Press release.
  2. Web site: 2023 . The 2023 Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming . 2023-06-21 . The Diana Jones Award . en-US.
  3. Web site: 2023 . 2023 Nominations . 2023-07-11 . ENNIE Awards . en-US.
  4. Web site: A Question of What's Cool: A Conversation with Wesley Schneider. Kobold Press.
  5. Web site: Interview: F. Wesley Schneider (Pathfinder Tales: Bloodbound). Beneath the Underground. 2016-07-21. 2016-08-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20160807175347/http://beneaththeunderground.com/interview-f-wesley-schneider-pathfinder-tales-bloodbound/. dead.
  6. Web site: Industry Insider Featured Presenters for 2016. Gen Con. 2016-07-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20160731044041/http://www.gencon.com/experience/industryinsiderfeaturedpresenters. 2016-07-31. dead.
  7. Web site: Vampire Hunter D: Message from Mars . Kickstarter.
  8. Web site: Schneider . F. Wesley . May 18, 2017 . Wes's Last Words . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201111195347/https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5ljtw?Wess-Last-Words . November 11, 2020 . Paizo Blog.
  9. Web site: Dungeons & Dragons. WesSchneider.com.
  10. Web site: March 22, 2022 . The Next D&D Adventure Book is a Vibrant, Personal Multicultural Anthology . March 22, 2022 . Gizmodo . en-us.
  11. Web site: Tasha's Cauldron of Everything . https://web.archive.org/web/20220527153202/https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tashas-cauldron-everything . dead . May 27, 2022 . 2022-12-28 . D&D Official Dungeons & Dragons.
  12. Web site: Fizban's Treasury of Dragons . https://web.archive.org/web/20210716131808/https://dnd.wizards.com/products/treasury-dragons . dead . July 16, 2021 . 2022-12-28 . D&D Official Dungeons & Dragons.
  13. Web site: Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos . https://web.archive.org/web/20210717181548/https://dnd.wizards.com/products/strixhaven-curriculum-chaos . dead . July 17, 2021 . 2022-12-28 . D&D Official Dungeons & Dragons.
  14. Web site: Baird . Scott . 2020-07-28 . James Wyatt & F. Wesley Schneider Interview . 2020-09-28 . ScreenRant . en-US.
  15. Web site: Hall . Charlie . 2021-05-03 . D&D's new Ravenloft book swaps outdated tropes for a high-fantasy approach . 2021-05-04 . Polygon . en.
  16. Web site: 2021-02-25 . Is D&D's Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft Safe For Kids . 2021-04-06 . ScreenRant . en-US.
  17. Web site: March 22, 2022 . Dungeons & Dragons Explores New Worlds With Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel Anthology . March 22, 2022 . . en.
  18. Web site: 2022-03-22 . Dungeons & Dragons Reveals Journeys Through The Radiant Citadel, The First Official Adventure Collection With An All-POC Writing Team . 2022-03-23 . TheGamer . en-US.
  19. Web site: Hall . Charlie . 2022-03-22 . Dungeons & Dragons’ next anthology is written entirely by Black and brown authors . 2024-09-25 . Polygon . en-US.
  20. Web site: Culver . Jordan . July 20, 2022 . 'Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel': 16 writers, all people of color, shape new Dungeons & Dragons book . July 20, 2022 . . After working on other projects, George met with D&D senior designer F. Wesley Schneider. George, also the Chief Operating Officer of the nonprofit Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project, was given the chance to work on another D&D product, he said, and during that time, he thought about what would eventually become 'Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel.'.
  21. Web site: November 7, 2022 . Dungeons & Dragons Heads Back to Dragonlance With New Campaign and Board Game Tie-In . 2022-12-28 . ComicBook.com . en.
  22. Web site: Hall . Charlie . 2022-11-07 . Which version of the new D&D Dragonlance campaign should you buy? . 2022-12-28 . Polygon . en-US.

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