Eric L. Boyd

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BornEric L. Boyd
OccupationGame designer
Nationality United States
Genre Role-playing games

Eric L. Boyd is a software engineer who also writes material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

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Career

Eric L. Boyd has written articles and books for the Greyhawk setting, and has co-authored a number of Forgotten Realms campaign supplements. Some of his works include Demihuman Deities , (1998), Faiths and Pantheons (2002) with Erik Mona, and Serpent Kingdoms (2004) with Ed Greenwood and Darrin Drader. He also contributed to the Forgotten Realms Player's Guide for D&D 4th Edition. He first contributed to the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting in June 2008.

Boyd used to run a campaign set in the Forgotten Realms, specifically a play by email set in Waterdeep, City of Splendors, revolving around the Waterdhavian nobility called "Hidden Splendors". [1] However, Hidden Splendors is currently on hiatus. [2] More recently he has started up the "Six Swords" campaign set in the Sembian city of Yhaunn. [3]

Trenton Webb of British RPG magazine Arcane, declared that "Julia Martin and Eric L. Boyd deserve medals for what they've achieved with Faiths & Avatars . They probably also deserve professional psychiatric help for even attemption to codify and clarify the twisted theology of Abeir-Toril. The resultant work is exhaustive. It's also exhausting." [4]

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References

  1. Eric L. Boyd. "Hidden Splendors" . Retrieved 2008-04-20.
  2. Eric L. Boyd. "Hobbies" . Retrieved 2008-04-20.
  3. Eric L. Boyd. "Six Swords" . Retrieved 2008-04-20.
  4. Webb, Trenton (June 1996). "Games Reviews". Arcane. Future Publishing (7): 64–65.