F. Wesley Schneider
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F. Wesley Schneider | |
|---|---|
| Born | United States |
| Occupation | Game designer, author |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Genre | Fantasy, 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]
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]
