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Rob Heinsoo
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Rob Heinsoo is an American tabletop game designer. He has been designing and contributing to professional roleplaying games, card games, and board games since 1994.[1] He has also designed and contributed to miniatures games and a computer game.
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Career[edit]
Heinsoo began playing Dungeons & Dragons in 1974 at age 10, using the original edition.[2] His interest in games informed his interest in science fiction and fantasy, and vice versa.[3]
With Wikipedia:Wizards of the Coast, Heinsoo was involved in a number of Wikipedia:Dungeons & Dragons game products, and he served as lead designer for the Fourth Edition of the core rules. His teammates referred to his role on the 4th Edition team as the "mad genius."[4] He also helped write the Wikipedia:Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, which reached the top 50 of the non-fiction bestsellers in Canada in 2002[5] and won an Wikipedia:Origins Award for best roleplaying supplement of 2001.[6] His book Monster Manual 2, co-written with Chris Sims, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller in 2009.[7]
Rob Heinsoo also contributes to Alarums and Excursions.
Tabletop roleplaying games[edit]
- Nexus: the Infinite City (1994) (Lead Editor, Writer)
- Back for Seconds (1996) (Co-Editor)
- Marked for Death (1996) (Co-Editor)
- Feng Shui: Hong Kong Action Movie Roleplay (1996) (Co-Editor)
3rd Edition D&D[edit]
- Creatures of Faerun (2000) (Co-Designer)
- Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (2001) (Co- Author)
4th Edition D&D[edit]
- Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition (2008) (Lead Designer)
- Player’s Handbook (2008) (Lead Designer)
- D&D Essentials: Rules Compendium (2010) (Lead Designer)
- The Plane Above (August 2010) (Lead Designer)
- Underdark (2010) (Lead Designer)
- Primal Power (September 2009) (Designer)
- Adventurer’s Vault 2 (2009) (Lead Designer)
- Monster Manual 2 (2009) (Lead Designer)
- Divine Power (2009) (Lead Designer)
- Forgotten Realm’s Player’s Guide (2008) (Lead Designer)
- Martial Power (2008) Lead Designer)
Card games and board games[edit]
- Surviving On the Edge (1995) (Co-Author)
- Shadowfist (1995) (Lead Playtester, Editor)
- Netherworld (1996) (Developer, Additional Design)
- Shadowfist Player’s Guide (1996) (Author)
- Flashpoint (1997) (Co-designer, Art Direction)
- Legend of the Five Rings Gold Edition (2000) (Story Lead)
- Football Champions (2001-2004) (Designer, seven sets)
- Three-Dragon Ante (2005) (Designer)
- Inn-Fighting (2007) (Designer)
- Castle Ravenloft (2010) (Additional Design)
- Three-Dragon Ante: Emperor’s Gambit (2010) (Designer)
Miniatures games[edit]
- Chainmail (2002) (Co-Designer)
- Sets 1-4 (2002-2003) (Co-Designer, Developer)
- D&D Miniatures Sets 1-9, Harbinger, Dragoneye, Archfiends, Giants of Legend, Aberrations, Deathknell, Angelfire, Underdark, Wardrums (2003 – 2006) (Designer)
- Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures (2003) (Lead Designer)
- Dreamblade (2006) (Co-designer)
Computer games[edit]
- King of Dragon Pass (1999) (Lead Q&A, Additional Design, Manual)
References[edit]
- ↑ "Rob Heinsoo" game credits on Pen & Paper.
- ↑ Interview, Guys Lit Wire.
- ↑ Interview, Guys Lit Wire.
- ↑ "Rob’s definitely the mad genius of the group, particularly when it comes to mechanical design." Kobold Quarterly, Summer 2008, page 32.
- ↑ (September 2002). "Bestsellers Lists", Books in Canada 31 (6): 11.
- ↑ 2001 Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design
- ↑ (May 29, 2009). "Wall Street Journal Best-Sellers", Wikipedia:Connecticut Post.
