F. Wesley Schneider

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F. Wesley Schneider
Born United States
OccupationGame designer, author
LanguageEnglish
Nationality American
CitizenshipUnited States
GenreFantasy, horror

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]

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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. [9]

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. [a] He was a designer and editor on the supplemental sourcebook Tasha's Cauldron of Everything (2020), [25] and an editor on the supplemental sourcebook Fizban's Treasury of Dragons (2021) [26] and the campaign setting sourcebook Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos (2021). [27]

Schneider was the co-lead designer, with James Wyatt, on the campaign setting sourcebook Mythic Odysseys of Theros (2020). [28] He was then the lead designer on the campaign setting sourcebook Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (2021). [29] [30]

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. [10] [31] [32]

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. [33] [34] Schneider's work on Journeys through the Radiant Citadel was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing in March 2023, [1] the 2023 Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming, [2] and 2023 ENNIE Awards for Best Adventure and Best Product. [3]

In 2022, Schneider was the lead designer on the adventure module Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen (2022). [35] [36]

Notes

  1. ↑ These titles include: Barbarian and Monk (2019), [11] Sorcerer and Warlock (2019), [12] Bard and Paladin (2019), [13] Cleric, Druid, and Wizard (2019), [14] Fighter, Ranger, and Rogue (2019), [15] Class Feature Variants (2019), [16] Fighter, Rogue, Wizard (2019), [17] Subclasses, Part 1 (2020), [18] Subclasses, Part 2 (2020), [19] Subclasses, Part 3 (2020), [20] Psionic Options Revisited (2020), [21] Gothic Lineages (2021), [22] Heroes of Krynn (2022), [23] and Heroes of Krynn Revisited (2022). [24]

References

  1. 1 2 Farrell, Rebecca Gomez (March 7, 2023). "SFWA Names the 58th Nebula Award Finalists". Nebula Award (Press release). Retrieved March 8, 2023.
  2. 1 2 "The 2023 Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming". The Diana Jones Award. 2023. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
  3. 1 2 "2023 Nominations". ENNIE Awards. 2023. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
  4. ↑ "A Question of What's Cool: A Conversation with Wesley Schneider". Kobold Press.
  5. ↑ "Interview: F. Wesley Schneider (Pathfinder Tales: Bloodbound)". Beneath the Underground. Archived from the original on 2016-08-07. Retrieved 2016-07-21.
  6. ↑ "Industry Insider Featured Presenters for 2016". Gen Con. Archived from the original on 2016-07-31. Retrieved 2016-07-21.
  7. ↑ "Vampire Hunter D: Message from Mars". Kickstarter.
  8. ↑ Schneider, F. Wesley (May 18, 2017). "Wes's Last Words". Paizo Blog. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020.
  9. 1 2 "Dungeons & Dragons". WesSchneider.com.
  10. 1 2 "The Next D&D Adventure Book is a Vibrant, Personal Multicultural Anthology". Gizmodo. March 22, 2022. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  11. ↑ "Barbarian and Monk". Wizards of the Coast . Archived from the original on August 15, 2019. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
  12. ↑ "Sorcerer and Warlock". Wizards of the Coast . Archived from the original on September 5, 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  13. ↑ "Bard and Paladin". Wizards of the Coast . Archived from the original on October 5, 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  14. ↑ "Cleric, Druid, and Wizard". Wizards of the Coast . Archived from the original on October 3, 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  15. ↑ "Fighter, Ranger, and Rogue". Wizards of the Coast . Archived from the original on October 21, 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
  16. ↑ "Class Feature Variants". Wizards of the Coast . Archived from the original on November 5, 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
  17. ↑ "Unearthed Arcana: Fighter, Rogue, and Wizard". Wizards of the Coast . Archived from the original on November 30, 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  18. ↑ "Subclasses, Part 1". Wizards of the Coast . Archived from the original on February 6, 2020. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  19. ↑ "Subclasses, Part 2". Wizards of the Coast . Archived from the original on February 6, 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  20. ↑ "Subclasses, Part 3". Wizards of the Coast . Archived from the original on February 24, 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  21. ↑ "Unearthed Arcana 2020: Psionic Options Revisited". Wizards of the Coast . Archived from the original on April 22, 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  22. ↑ "Gothic Lineages". Wizards of the Coast . Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  23. ↑ "2022: Heroes of Krynn" (PDF).
  24. ↑ "2022: Heroes of Krynn Revisited" (PDF).
  25. ↑ "Tasha's Cauldron of Everything". D&D Official | Dungeons & Dragons. Archived from the original on May 27, 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  26. ↑ "Fizban's Treasury of Dragons". D&D Official | Dungeons & Dragons. Archived from the original on July 16, 2021. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  27. ↑ "Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos". D&D Official | Dungeons & Dragons. Archived from the original on July 17, 2021. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  28. ↑ Baird, Scott (2020-07-28). "James Wyatt & F. Wesley Schneider Interview". ScreenRant. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  29. ↑ Hall, Charlie (2021-05-03). "D&D's new Ravenloft book swaps outdated tropes for a high-fantasy approach". Polygon. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  30. ↑ "Is D&D's Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft Safe For Kids". ScreenRant. 2021-02-25. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
  31. ↑ "Dungeons & Dragons Explores New Worlds With Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel Anthology". ComicBook.com . March 22, 2022. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  32. ↑ "Dungeons & Dragons Reveals Journeys Through The Radiant Citadel, The First Official Adventure Collection With An All-POC Writing Team". TheGamer. 2022-03-22. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  33. ↑ Hall, Charlie (2022-03-22). "Dungeons & Dragons' next anthology is written entirely by Black and brown authors". Polygon. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
  34. ↑ Culver, Jordan (July 20, 2022). "'Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel': 16 writers, all people of color, shape new Dungeons & Dragons book". USA Today . Retrieved 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.'
  35. ↑ "Dungeons & Dragons Heads Back to Dragonlance With New Campaign and Board Game Tie-In". ComicBook.com. November 7, 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  36. ↑ Hall, Charlie (2022-11-07). "Which version of the new D&D Dragonlance campaign should you buy?". Polygon. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
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