Christopher Perkins (born February 29, 1968)[1] is a Canadian American[2] game designer and editor who is known for his work on Wizards of the Coast's Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, currently as the senior story designer.[3]
Career[]
Under the pen name "Christopher Zarathustra", Perkins got his career start in 1988 writing the adventure "Wards of Witching Ways" for Dungeon magazine #11.[4][5] He later officially joined Wizards of the Coast in 1997 as the editor of Dungeon magazine.[6][7][8] A few years later, he was promoted to editor-in-chief of Wizards periodicals.[9]
Perkins later became the senior producer for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, leading the team of designers, developers, and editors who produce Dungeons & Dragons products.[6][8] Perkins was the story manager for Dungeons & Dragons in 2007 before the release of the game's fourth edition.[10] Perkins was working on the Star Wars Saga Edition while Dungeons & Dragons fourth edition was being developed, and ideas flowed freely back and forth between Perkins and the fourth edition team.[11] He was also on the SCRAMJET team, led by Richard Baker, and including James Wyatt, Matthew Sernett, Ed Stark, Michele Carter, and Stacy Longstreet; this team updated the setting and cosmology of Dungeons & Dragons as the fourth edition was being developed.[11] Perkins was the Lead Story Designer of the Ravenloft fifth edition reboot Curse of Strahd, released in 2016.[5][12][13]
Perkins wrote a blog, "The Dungeon Master Experience", on the Wizards of the Coast website for over two years, where he shared tricks and advice about the challenge of "dungeon mastering" a campaign through the lens of his homebrew world, Iomandra.[14] However, in the penultimate posting of March 2013, he announced the following posting would be the last "at least for a while", whereupon the blog became inactive.[15]
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Perkins at the Penny Arcade Expo in 2008, second from the left
He was also the longtime Dungeon Master for the Acquisitions Incorporated Dungeons & Dragons games at the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX), until PAX Unplugged 2018.[5][16][17][18]
Livestreams[]
From 2016 to 2019, Perkins was the Dungeon Master in the Twitch livestream Dice, Camera, Action, which was a live play-through of Dungeons & Dragons' latest story lines.[5][18][19][5][20] He has also guest starred twice on the Dungeons & Dragons-based show, Critical Role.[18][21]
Personal life[]
In his free time, Perkins runs a Dungeons & Dragons campaign set in his homegrown world of Iomandra.[6]
References[]
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- ↑ Happy Birthday to Dungeon Master Chris Perkins. (29 February 2016).
- ↑ Perkins, Christoper (4 June 2016). I was born in Canada....
- ↑ Brodeur, Nicole (2018-05-04). Behind the scenes of the making of Dungeons & Dragons (in en-US).
- ↑ Baichtal, John (5 March 2008). Chris Perkins Answers D&D 4E Questions. Condé Nast. Retrieved on 13 March 2019.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Kenreck, Todd (30 May 2017). D&D's Chris Perkins Talks About His Stories, Legacy and Anxiety.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Christopher Perkins - D&D Creative Manager. Wizards of the Coast. (12 September 2009). Retrieved on 18 April 2013.
- ↑ Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters archiveurl and archivedate must be both specified or both omitted. Christopher Perkins :: Pen & Paper RPG Database.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chris Perkins.
- ↑ The Magic Touch. (2000). Archived from the original on May 3, 2014. Retrieved on April 19, 2013.
- ↑ Villoria (September 10, 2007). Dungeons & Dragons: The 4th Edition Interview. IGN Entertainment. Retrieved on April 18, 2013.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Appelcline, Shannon (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing.
- ↑ Chris Perkins and Tracy Hickman on Curse of Strahd. (21 January 2016).
- ↑ Whalen, Andrew (2018-12-03). ‘D&D’ roleplayers can alter reality with Worldbuilders boons from Critical Role, Patrick Rothfuss (in en).
- ↑ Article Archive. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2014-10-12. Retrieved on 2015-10-22.
- ↑ Perkins, Chris (2013-03-14). Until the Next Encounter. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on February 18, 2015. Retrieved on 2015-10-22.
- ↑ Gabe (2011-08-01). Acquisitions Inc.. Retrieved on 2015-10-22.
- ↑ Haeck, James (2018-12-03). Chris Perkins Steps Down from Acquisitions Inc.; Jeremy Crawford Named Successor. Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved on 2018-12-03.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Hoffer, Christian (1 February 2019). Chris Perkins Makes Hilarious Surprise Appearance on 'Critical Role' (in en).
- ↑ Dice, Camera, Action. (17 February 2016).
- ↑ Dungeons & Dragons on Twitter. (3 December 2019).
- ↑ Critical Role: Episode 55 - Umbrasyl. (2016-06-06). Retrieved on 2016-06-15.