Skaff Elias
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Skaff Elias is a game designer.
Career
Skaff Elias started working on Magic: The Gathering at Wizards of the Coast when the company was still fairly new.{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}{{rp|287}} He was one of the designers for various Magic sets, including Arabian Nights (December 1993),{{cite web | url=http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/rb32 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113184341/http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/rb32 | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 13, 2009 | title = Better Late Than Never | last=Elias | first=Skaff | publisher = Wizards of the Coast | date = 9 August 2002 | accessdate = 2009-10-16}} Antiquities (March 1994),{{cite web | title = Legendary Difficulties | last = Elias | first = Skaff | date = 8 March 2002 | accessdate = 26 February 2011 | publisher = Wizards of the Coast | url = http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/rb10| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090114023937/http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/rb10| url-status = dead| archive-date = January 14, 2009}} Legends (June 1994), Fallen Empires (November 1994), and Ice Age (June 1995),{{cite web | title = Whatever Happened to Barry's Land? | last = Rosewater | first = Mark | authorlink = Mark Rosewater | date = 9 February 2009 | accessdate = 26 February 2011 | publisher = Wizards of the Coast | url = http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/25| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090213064712/http://wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/25| url-status = dead| archive-date = February 13, 2009}} Mark Rosewater also credits Skaff Elias with the invention of the Magic Pro Tour.{{cite web | first = Mark | last = Rosewater | title = On Tour, Part 1 | publisher = Wizards of the Coast | date = 26 July 2004 | accessdate = 11 January 2008 | url = http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr134| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081019011507/http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr134| url-status = dead| archive-date = October 19, 2008}}
Elias was responsible for the design work on the Chainmail miniatures game.{{rp|289}} Elias and Richard Garfield designed an MMORPG based on Dungeons & Dragons, which was never published because Hasbro sold the D&D computer game rights to Infogrames.{{rp|290}}
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.{{Cite web|url=http://mind-control.com/news.php?articleID=39|title=NameBright - Domain Expired|website=mind-control.com}}
In 2022, Nerdlab Games published Mindbug, a dueling card game designed by Elias, Garfield, Christian Kudahl, and Marvin Hegen.{{cn|date=October 2022}}
References
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External links
- {{cite web|url=http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=9449 |archive-date=March 19, 2005 |title=Skaff Elias :: Pen & Paper RPG Database|url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050319193233/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=9449}}
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Category:American game designers
Category:Dungeons & Dragons game designers