Dragon Talk: #371 - Rob Daviau and Wes Schneider

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

A 20-year industry veteran, Rob Daviau has worked on over 80 published games. For 14 years, Rob was at Hasbro Games, where he worked on Risk 2210 AD, Axis & Allies Pacific, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Star Wars Epic Duels, Heroscape, Clue DVD, Clue Harry Potter, Risk Star Wars, Risk Lord of the Rings, and many more. He was editor of Trivial Pursuit for 8 years and ran the editorial department for 1. F. Wesley Schneider joined the Dungeons & Dragons team in 2019 after nearly two decades of creating games, writing stories, and designing books—usually creepy ones.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dragon Talk!
0:08.0	Dragon Talk!
0:09.0	Very excited to start off this episode of the official Dungeons and Dragons
0:18.4	podcast I am Greg Tito and that is Shelley Masadob. Yay Greg and Shelley and Shelley. Yeah, Greg and Shelley.
0:24.0	Yeah, exciting times abound.
0:28.0	Sure do.
0:30.0	Sure do.
0:31.0	We.
0:32.0	Getting ready for the release of Dragon Land Shadow of the Dragon Queen out there and we are
0:38.8	excited to have two amazing folks. West Snyder, the lead designer, project lead, and Rob Davio, who, along with Stephen Baker,
0:50.0	designer of a little game you might have heard of called Hero Quest and Rob Davio who made
0:55.3	legacy games a thing with Risk Legacy at our parent company Hasbro, but has gone on to do
1:01.6	amazing other things including Betraylet House on the hill and legacy and legacy and
1:09.5	Betrayal at Mystery Mansion the trail at mystery, as well as the Dark Tower, which I love playing when I was a kid.
1:16.0	Yes.
1:17.0	Restoring that with his game company.
1:18.0	So two amazing folks talking all about working together and being game designers and being inside their brains.
1:24.0	It's going to be great because getting inside the brain of game designers is quite fascinating.
1:30.0	Can be scary at times, but really fascinating and it's very safe I promise
1:35.0	I'm what was that sitcom in the 80s called Herman's head?
1:39.0	You remember that? Yes! I had that moment of like going inside like Rob's head and just seeing all of like the parts, the sports
1:48.3	fandoms, the little chits, all of the legacy things that you've ripped up and thrown away over the time is actually still in his brain.
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