Rob Heinsoo
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.
Career
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 Wizards of the Coast, Heinsoo was involved in a number of Dungeons & Dragons game products. He helped is the designer of Three-Dragon Ante, a unique card game. Other Forgotten Realms works include the sourcebook Monsters of Faerûn. He served as lead designer for the Fourth Edition of the core rules. The Player's Handbook for this edition was nominated for an Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Game in 2009.[4] His teammates referred to his role on the 4th Edition team as the "mad genius."[5] He also helped write the third edition Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, which reached the top 50 of the non-fiction bestsellers in Canada in 2002[6] and won an Origins Award for best roleplaying supplement of 2001.[7] His book Monster Manual 2, co-written with Chris Sims, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller in 2009.[8]
While at Wizards of the Coast, he also led and contributed to various miniatures gaming projects. Subsequent to the release of the Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures Game, he took over as lead designer on that project.[9] He was also one of three designers of Dreamblade, for which he was nominated for an Origins Award in 2007.[10]
Rob Heinsoo also contributes to Alarums and Excursions.
Tabletop roleplaying games
- 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
- Creatures of Faerun (2000) (Co-Designer)
- Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (2001) (Co- Author)
4th Edition D&D
- 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
- 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
- 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
- King of Dragon Pass (1999) (Lead Q&A, Additional Design, Manual)
References
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