Skaff Elias


Skaff Elias is a game designer.

Career

Skaff Elias was at Wizards of the Coast working on since the early days of the company. He was one of the designers for various Magic sets, including Arabian Nights |Arabian Nights, Antiquities |Antiquities, Legends |Legends, Fallen Empires |Fallen Empires, and Ice Age |Ice Age, Mark Rosewater also credits Skaff Elias with the invention of the Pro Tour |Magic Pro Tour.
Elias did the main design work for the Chainmail miniatures game. Elias and Richard Garfield designed an MMORPG based on Dungeons & Dragons, which was never published because Hasbro folded up the D&D computer rights into Hasbro Interactive and then sold them to Infogrames, leaving Wizards with no rights to publish D&D computer games.
He co-authored the D&D manual Miniatures Handbook.
Elias and Garfield also worked on Mind Twist, a free-to-play strategy game from Mind Control Software.