James Wyatt

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Writer of Dungeons & Dragons sourcebooks and novels, Magic: The Gathering art books and short stories, sermons, poems, and more. Priest in the Episcopal church. #wotcstaff, opinions are my own. Profile photo by @KP11Studios. He/him.

D&D Talks—Setting Is Story: Making D&D’s Worlds Your Own. An old picture of Wes Schneider and a less-old picture of James Wyatt with our names below, superimposed over the D&D ampersand. D&D Tower, Gen Con 2026 Friday, July 31, 11:00 AM PT, 2:00 PM ET Get Tickets Today Live streamed at YouTube.com/dndwizards
James (a gray-haired white guy with glasses and a goatee) wears a stole with dragons in rainbow colors, a clerical collar, and a T-shirt in trans flag colors saying “You will have to go through me.” The background is green leaves and blue sky.
A screenshot of an email formatted like a poem: This is just to say I have taken the lilacs that were in front of the altar and which you were probably saving for Thursday Forgive me they were beautiful and in my wife’s colors and I’ll bring them back on Thursday. (With apologies to William Carlos Williams)
Pencil drawings on the outside of a file folder depicting droids—three variations on R2-D2 (all of them with rectangular heads) and one similar to C-3PO, labeled C3DE. These were all drawn by a 9-year-old and look like it.
One panel of a comic-style school assignment. The instructions (not fully visible) say, “You are being interviewed on national network TV. Answer the interviewer’s questions as honestly as you can.” In this panel, the interviewer asks, “What do you like to do most?” The handwritten answer I put in is “Play Dungeons & Dragons.”
A 12-year-old James’ illustration of a winged biped with a dragon’s head and tail. The figure is colored with magic marker—light green, with yellow for the membranes of the wings and the shorts the figure wears. It wields a mace in its right hand and a triangular shield in its left. Below the figure is the school project title: “Future Center” and a cursive signature: “James Wyatt ‘80” The drawing is on the outside of a file folder.
James (a gray-haired white man with glasses and a goatee) wearing a red stole and chasuble raises one hand, palm out in blessing, at the end of the Diocese of Olympia’s ordination service today.
A set of seven polyhedral dice with a sort of stained-glass look: etched frames on each face and colorful glitter inside. Gorgeous!
Two “PC Combat Cards” with the character named Omin Dran (half-elf cleric) and Jim Darkmagic (human wizard), with handwritten notations of their hit points and various conditions.
A 9 on the d20 plus a 4 on the d4.
A d20 and a d4, both showing 1s.
A cluttered bookshelf. Clearly visible are two red Books of Common Prayer, and near them, face up, is a copy of "Storm Dragon," by James Wyatt. Who is me. Other books, less clearly visible, include "A Guide to Pronouncing Biblical Names," a very worn-looking Bible, "The World's Greatest Collection of Church Jokes," and "The Vestry Handbook."
A picture of James’s (large) feet, clad in black and red argyle socks.
James wearing a black shirt with a clerical collar underneath a black jacket bearing the 50th anniversary D&D logo.
James in white robe and blue deacon’s stole standing in a pulpit preaching.
James—a gray-haired white guy wearing a white robe and a red deacon’s stole, holding a Bible—stands in the front of St. Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle, newly ordained as an Episcopal deacon.
A photo of my Apple Watch on my wrist, with a blue gradient face, next to my similarly blue shirt.
A large piece of newsprint with these words written in colored marker: Inquiry/Data Collection & Feedback. “One of the most powerful interventions you can ever make in an organization is getting the organization in touch with its own data!”
A portrait of James—middle-aged white guy with beard and glasses—wearing a clerical collar and double-breasted suit jacket.
An adorable cartoon showing me—an old white guy, hugging a stringed instrument, with the words “I have a thing about hurdy gurdies” on banners around the image.
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Cut-paper minis of gnoll-like creatures and one bat-like monsters standing on a TV screen showing grass and dirt paths.
A cut-paper mini of a FLUFFY! al-mi’raj, which looks like a rabbit with a unicorn horn. Totally adorable!
Facebook memory: on this day 13 years ago Try as I might, I can't help but hear the lyrics to the Usher song as, "the DJ god is falling in love again." I keep imagining some Gaimanesque Apollo or Orpheus working as a DJ in sleazy clubs...
Four cards in a row: Fates (reversed), Tree (reversed); Tower (reversed); Corpse
A pumpkin carved to look like the 😘 face blowing a kiss emoji.
A sign from a museum in York, England: AD 1180-1200 (Medieval) Limestone statues St. Mary's Abbey, York From left to right, the statues represent: Moses YORYM : 1998.28 Unknown Apostle YORYM : 2001.1125 St. James YORYM : 1993.321 St. John the Evangelist YORYM: 2008.200 These larger than life statues were placed above the west entrance to the abbey church at St. Mary's to awe and inspire visitors. Beautifully crafted and painted in a rich palette of colours, they are the finest surviving example of eleventh century sculpture in the country. The statues were discovered by Reverend Charles Wellbeloved in 1827. They had been unceremoniously laid face down in the ground as foundation stones when the church was later rebuilt.
A set of chocolate dice (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20) in their packaging. The label says “60% Cacao Chocolate Dice Set.” Each die is in its own little foil cup.
A big stack of D&D books! Dungeon Master 4e for Dummies, Player’s Guide to Faerûn, Monsters of Faerûn, City of the Spider Queen, Legacy of the Crystal Shard, Sharn City of Towers, The Forge of War, Player’s Guide to Eberron, Eberron Campaign Setting (3e), Eberron Campaign Guide (4e), Pyramid of Shadows, Fiend Folio, Magic of Incarnum, Madness at Gardmore Abbey, Dungeon Master’s Kit, Manual of the Planes (4e), Monster Manual (4e), DMG (4e), PH (4e), Book of Exalted Deeds, PH2 (4e), Oriental Adventures, Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, Deities and Demigods, Heroes of Horror, PH Races: Dragonborn, and a couple more whose titles are not visible.
Drawn paper minis of zombies and a skeleton archer on a glowing blue grid (a TV on its back) showing a forest clearing.
The cover of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition sourcebook, “The Complete Priest’s Handbook,” by TSR, Inc.
Two dozen carrot cupcakes in the oven!