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Biography
Skaff Elias is a game designer.
Career
Skaff Elias was at Wizards of the Coast working on Magic: The Gathering since the early days of the company. He was one of the designers for various Magic sets, including Arabian Nights (December 1993), Antiquities (March 1994), Legends (June 1994), Fallen Empires (November 1994), and Ice Age (June 1995), Mark Rosewater also credits Skaff Elias with the invention of the 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 (2003).
Elias and Garfield also worked on Mind Twist, a free-to-play strategy game from Mind Control Software.