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Chris S. Sims (born 1971) is an American editor, writer and game designer. As a game designer, Sims is best known for his online and print works for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game published by Wizards of the Coast and Starfinder role-playing game by Paizo.
Personal life[]
Chris S. Sims was born in October 1971 in Virginia, USA.[1]
Career[]
Game design[]
Sims started out working for small d20 companies in 2003, then worked as a freelance editor for Roleplaying Games R&D at Wizards of the Coast. Wizards later hired him as the Duel Masters editor in 2005. From there, Sims became an associate editor in RPG R&D at Wizards, so some of Chris S. Sims' work for Wizards of the Coast is labeled as Wizards RPG Team, consisting of Sims, David Noonan and Robert J. Schwalb.[2]
He later became a writer and story designer,[3][4][5][6] and his design credits include the Secrets of Sarlona (2007) supplement for the Eberron campaign setting, the Rules Compendium (2007), the fourth edition Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide[7] (2008), the adventure Demon Queen's Enclave[8] (2008), and other story projects.[9][10][11]
Sims also worked on the 4th edition Monster Manual. His book Monster Manual 2, co-written with Rob Heinsoo, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller in 2009.[12][13] He is co-author of the Book of Templates.[14]
He worked as an editor on the 5th edition of D&D,[15] which became a New York Times Bestseller.[16][17]
He worked for Wizards until 2015.[18]
Sims produced material for Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, State of Decay 2, and other gaming systems.[19]
In 2017 he was hired as a game and story designer at Paizo.[20] He designed and wrote the first adventure for the Starfinder franchise: The Diaspora Strain.[21]
Sims is a frequent guest at cons and events in the gaming community[22][23][24] and a regular contributor in gaming magazines like 'Critical Hits'.
Sims' work is subject of critical analysis in gaming research.[25][26]
Consultant[]
Sims has worked as a language consultant for filmmaker and artist Johannes Grenzfurthner (Glossary of Broken Dreams).[27][28]
Art[]
Sims created works of interactive fiction.[29]
Sims was awarded an art residency at Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria in autumn 2017.[30] He created an interactive roleplaying perfomance for the Vienna Art Week.[31]
Bibliography[]
- Rules Compendium (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying)
- Monster Manual 2: A 4th Edition D&D Core Rulebook (D&D Supplement)
- An Adventurer's Guide to Eberron (D&D Retrospective)
- Seekers of the Ashen Crown: A 4th Edition D&D Adventure for Eberron
- Demon Queen's Enclave: Adventure P2 for 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons (D&D Adventure)
- Book of Templates Deluxe Edition
Awards[]
Chris S. Sims won many awards for his game design work, for example the 5th edition of D&D.[32][33]
References[]
- ↑ Personal information
- ↑ Wizards RPG Team, publication list on AbeBooks
- ↑ Career overview, 2017
- ↑ Official D&D Livestream: "Against the Slave Lords with R&D, Part 2"
- ↑ Schmidt, Peter: Gaming Space: Creativity, Collaboration, Design: FU Berlin, 2012. p. 51ff.
- ↑ Official D&D Livestream: "The Lich-Queen's Beloved Part 4"
- ↑ Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide
- ↑ Demon Queen's Enclave
- ↑ D&D, "Scourge Sword Coast", 2014
- ↑ Chris Sims at Encounters Series, D&D
- ↑ Crits for Brains, review of "Tales from the Yawning Portal" by Chris Sims
- ↑ (May 29, 2009). "Wall Street Journal Best-Sellers", Connecticut Post.
- ↑ The Tome Show: Making Monsters Sizzle (October 14, 2016)
- ↑ Book of Templates, review on rpg.net
- ↑ Conversions to 5th Edition D&D, Chris Sims
- ↑ NY Times Bestellers, October 2014
- ↑ Neatorama: "Weird D&D Questions", Chris Sims
- ↑ EnWorld RPG News, WOTC layoffs
- ↑ Museumsquartier/Quartier21 AiR programme, Chris S. Sims
- ↑ Starfinder AP Interview with Paizo's Jason Keeley and Chris Sims
- ↑ Paizo - Starfinder Adventure Path: The Diaspora Strain
- ↑ "Don't Split" with guest Chris Sims
- ↑ D&D Extra Life 2015: Session 10 with Chris Sims
- ↑ D&D Extra Life 2015: Session 6 with Chris Sims
- ↑ Williams, D.: Understanding Tabletop Games. Montreal: Concordia, 2011. p. 32ff.
- ↑
- ↑ Zebrabutter: "Der Film Glossary of Broken Dreams oder: Im Schlachthaus Zum Goldenen Kalb"; April 25, 2018
- ↑ Glossary of Broken Dreams, project page
- ↑ Triskele, interactive fiction by Chris Sims
- ↑ Museumsquartier/Quartier21 AiR programme, Chris S. Sims
- ↑ Trummel, Cosima: Fantasy Games Deconstructed: University Vienna, 2018. p. 12.
- ↑ 2016 Golden Geek Awards
- ↑ 2016 Origins Awards
<ref> tag with name "default" defined in <references> has group attribute "" which does not appear in prior text.External links[]
- Sims' publication portfolio on Amazon
- Sim's biography on RPG Geek
- Chris Sims :: Pen & Paper RPG Database
- Interview with Chris Sims on ComicsAlliance
- DMS Guild list of Chris Sim's publications
- Playing Warforged (by Chris Sims), in: Dragon (Issue 364, June 2008)
- Mike Shea interviews Chris Sims on 'Critical Hits' about Encounter Design