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James Wyatt (''ca.'' 1968/1969〔) is a game designer and a former United Methodist minister. He works for Wizards of the Coast, where he has designed several award-winning supplements and adventures for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') roleplaying game. He is the author of several sci-fi and fantasy novels, including a few Forgotten Realms books, and the 4th edition ''Dungeon Master's Guide''. ==Biography== Wyatt grew up in Ithaca, NY where he attended Ithaca High School, graduating in 1986.〔(The Bulletin: Ithaca High School 20th Reunion 1986/2006 ). July 1, 2006. Pg. 29. (Archive copy ) at Scribd.〕 He had been playing role-playing games since the late 1970s, beginning with the first ''Basic D&D'' set: "I remember pretending to be a wizard in my backyard before I picked up the basic set... I used the monster statistics in the D&D books to give us wizards something to fight in our primitive backyard live-action roleplaying game." After high-school he attended Oberlin in Ohio as a religion major and graduated in 1990.〔〔 He went on to receive a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, in 1993.〔〔 He married his wife, Amy, soon after.〔 In 1994 Wyatt began his working career as the minister of two small United Methodist churches in southeastern Ohio.〔〔 While working as a minister Wyatt began writing in his spare time for ''Dragon'' magazine, starting with material for TSR's ''Masque of the Red Death'' setting. By 1996, Wyatt decided to change his career path: "While I was in the ministry, I started submitting adventures to ''Dungeon'' magazine... I found that my D&D work was a source of freedom and energy when ministry was more life-draining for me. When I started getting adventures and articles accepted, it was so exciting that it became clear that D&D would never again be just a hobby for me."〔 The same year he moved to Wisconsin in hopes of getting a full-time job at TSR, which did not immediately work out, but he kept writing material as a freelance author.〔 Wyatt produced work for roleplaying games such as West End's ''Hercules and Xena'', although he felt that "D&D has always been my one true love in the gaming world... despite junior high flings with other game systems."〔 He continued to have material published in ''Dragon'' and ''Dungeon''. In 1998 he moved to Berkley California, and in 2000 to the Seattle/Tacoma area of Washington state.〔 Wizards of the Coast ultimately hired him in January 2000 to work on the ''D&D'' game full-time; his first assignment was ''Monstrous Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn'', of which he wrote two-thirds.〔 His other early works for Wizards of the Coast included ''The Speaker in Dreams'' (a core adventure on the original Adventure Path, following ''The Sunless Citadel'' and ''The Forge of Fury''), ''Defenders of the Faith'', the monsters chapter in the ''Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting'', and numerous articles in ''Dragon'' and ''Dungeon''.〔 Wyatt wrote ''Oriental Adventures'' (2001), a setting book that Wizards had in process for over a year, and which offered new rules for Oriental realms, some of them specific to the world of Rokugan. He wrote ''City of the Spider Queen'' and co-authored numerous roleplaying game products, including ''Magic of Incarnum'', ''Sharn: City of Towers'', ''Draconomicon, The Book of Dragons'', and ''Book of Exalted Deeds''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James Wyatt )〕 Eberron was introduced with the ''Eberron Campaign Setting'' (2004), produced by Keith Baker alongside Wyatt and Bill Slavicsek.〔 Early in 2005, Slavicsek organized a team to work on some early designs for a fourth edition of ''D&D'', which was headed up by Rob Heinsoo and also contained Collins and Wyatt; Heinsoo, Collins, and Wyatt formed the core fourth-edition team.〔 Wyatt was on the SCRAMJET team, led by Richard Baker, and including Matt Sernett, Ed Stark, Michele Carter, Stacy Longstreet, and Chris Perkins; this team updated the setting and cosmology of ''D&D'' as the fourth edition was being developed.〔 He wrote the ''D&D'' novels ''In the Claws of the Tiger'' (2006), ''Storm Dragon'' (2007), ''Dragon Forge'' (2008), ''Dragon War'' (2009), and ''Oath of Vigilance'' (2011). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Wyatt (game designer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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