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James Wyatt, born around 1968, is an American game designer who works for Wizards of the Coast. He is best known for designing the fourth-edition Dungeon Master's Guide for Dungeons and Dragons and for co-designing the Eberron Campaign Setting with Keith Baker and Bill Slavicsek. Before his design career, he worked as a United Methodist minister.
Wyatt's D&D credits include the fourth-edition Dungeon Master's Guide, the Eberron Campaign Setting (2004), Oriental Adventures (2001), City of the Spider Queen, and the Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica (2018). He also co-authored Magic of Incarnum, Sharn: City of Towers, Draconomicon, and Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (2021).
Wyatt won an ENnie Award in 2002 for Oriental Adventures and Origins Awards in 2003 for City of the Spider Queen and in 2005 for the Eberron Campaign Setting. He co-authored both award-winning books with other designers.
Plane Shift is a series of free PDF releases Wyatt created between 2016 and 2018 that adapt Magic: The Gathering settings for Dungeons and Dragons. Six articles were published, covering Amonkhet, Dominaria, Innistrad, Ixalan, Kaladesh, and Zendikar. The series was not considered official material for organized play.
Wizards of the Coast hired James Wyatt in January 2000. His first assignment was Monstrous Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn, for which he wrote two-thirds of the book.
Yes. Wyatt began his career in 1994 as the minister of two small United Methodist churches in southeastern Ohio. He left ministry in 1996 to pursue game design full-time. He was later ordained as a Priest in the Episcopal Church on the 14th of June 2025, serving as Vicar of Faith Episcopal Poulsbo.