Skaff Elias

Skaff Elias
Nationality	American
Occupation	Game designer

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.[1]: 287  He was one of the designers for various Magic sets, including Arabian Nights (December 1993),[2] Antiquities (March 1994),[3] Legends (June 1994),[3] Fallen Empires (November 1994),[4] and Ice Age (June 1995),[4] Mark Rosewater also credits Skaff Elias with the invention of the Magic Pro Tour.[5]

Elias was responsible for the design work on the Chainmail miniatures game.[1]: 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.[1]: 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.[6]

In 2022, Nerdlab Games published Mindbug, a dueling card game designed by Elias, Garfield, Christian Kudahl, and Marvin Hegen.^[citation needed]

References

1. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
2. Elias, Skaff (9 August 2002). "Better Late Than Never". Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on January 13, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
3. Elias, Skaff (8 March 2002). "Legendary Difficulties". Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on January 14, 2009. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
4. Rosewater, Mark (9 February 2009). "Whatever Happened to Barry's Land?". Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on February 13, 2009. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
5. Rosewater, Mark (26 July 2004). "On Tour, Part 1". Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on October 19, 2008. Retrieved 11 January 2008.
6. http://mind-control.com/news.php?articleID=39 ^[bare URL]

External links

• "Skaff Elias :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on March 19, 2005.