Mike Mearls

Michael Mearls is a writer and designer of fantasy role-playing games (RPGs) and related fiction.

He worked as a freelance writer and designer for various gaming publishers for several years before being hired in June 2005 as a designer by Wizards of the Coast. He was a Lead Developer for Dungeons & Dragons R&D[1] working on the new 4th Edition. During the period from 2000-up until his hiring at WotC, he was one of the most prolific freelance writers in the gaming industry. Mearls is an alumnus of Dartmouth College.[2] While at Dartmouth he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity, and suggested "Robot Zombies" as a solution to the campus dining services budget problem.[3]

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Notable credits

Dragon Magazine

Notes

  1. ^ Mike Mearls' blog - Wizards Community
  2. ^ TheDartmouth.com | Graduation List as of June 5, 1997
  3. ^ TheDartmouth.com | College Should Look Into Robot Workers, Cloning and Zombies
  4. ^ Crawford, Jeremy; Mearls, Mike; Wyatt, James. "Contents". Player's Handbook 2. Wizards of the Coast. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/9780786950164. Retrieved 2011-10-05. 

Dragon Magazine

  1. ^ Mearls, Mike. "Playtest: New Hybrid and Multiclass Options". Dragon Magazine #400. Wizards of the Coast. http://www.wizards.com/dnd/toc.aspx?x=dnd/4new/drtoc/400. Retrieved 5 October 2011. 

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