F. Wesley Schneider | |
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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 the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and for 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]
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.[2] 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.[3]
In May 2016, Schneider was announced as a Gen Con Industry Insider Featured Presenter.[4]
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.[5] In May 2017, Schneider left his role as editor-in-chief at Paizo Inc[6] and ran his own company for two years.[7]
He later became employed by Wizards of the Coast first as a developer for Dungeons & Dragons,[7] and then as a senior game designer for Dungeons & Dragons.[8] 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),[23] and an editor on the supplemental sourcebook Fizban's Treasury of Dragons (2021)[24] and the campaign setting sourcebook Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos (2021).[25]
Schneider was the co-lead designer, with James Wyatt, on the campaign setting sourcebook Mythic Odysseys of Theros (2020).[26] He was then the lead designer on the campaign setting sourcebook Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (2021).[27][28] Ajit George, a writer on Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, pitched a new project idea to Jeremy Crawford, D&D's Lead Rules Designer, and Schneider during the COVID-19 pandemic. This project became the adventure anthology Journeys through the Radiant Citadel (2022) with George and Schneider as the book's co-lead designers.[8][29][30] His work on Journeys through the Radiant Citadel was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing in March 2023.[1] Schneider was next the lead designer on the adventure module Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen (2022).[31][32]