Lead Designer: Christopher Perkins
Lead Rules Developer: Jeremy Crawford
Stat Block Development: Chris Sims, Rodney Thompson, Peter Lee
Story Development: Mike Mearls, Robert J. Schwalb, Matt Sernett, Steve Townshend, James Wyatt
Editing: Scott Fitzgerald Gray
Managing Editor: Jeremy Crawford
Producer: Greg Bilsland
Art Director: Kate Irwin
Additional Art Direction: Dan Gelon, Jon
Schindehette, Mari Kolkowsky, Melissa Rapier, Shauna Narciso
Graphic Designers: Bree Heiss, Emi Tanji, Barry Craig
Cover Illustrator: Raymond Swanland
Interior Illustrators: Tom Babbey, Daren Bader, John-Paul Balmet, Mark Behm, Eric Belisle, Michael Berube, Zoltan Boros, Christopher Bradley, Aleksi Briclot, Filip Burburan, Christopher Burdett, Sam Burley, Mike Burns, Wesley Burt, Milivoj ′Ceran, Jedd Chevrier, Conceptopolis, Adam Danger Cook, Julie Dillon, Dave Dorman, Jesper Ejsing, Emrah Elmasli, Wayne England, Mike Faille, Toma Feizo Gas, Emily Fiegenschuh, Tomas Giorello, E.M. Gist, Lars Grant-West, E.W. Hekaton, jD, Jon Hodgson, Ralph Horsley, Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon, Lake Hurwitz, Tyler Jacobson, Vance Kovacs, Daniel Landerman, Lindsey Look, Daniel Ljunggren, Raphael Lübke, Titus Lunter, Slawomir Maniak, Andrew Mar, Brynn Metheney, Christopher Moeller, Mark Molnar, Marco Nelor, Jim Nelson, Mark A. Nelson, Hector Ortiz, Ryan Pancoast, Adam Paquette, Jim Pavelec, Kate Pfeilschiefter, Steve Prescott, Vincent Proce, Darrell Riche, Ned Rogers, Scott Roller, Jasper Sandner, Mike Sass, Marc Sasso, Ilya Shkipin, Carmen Sinek, Craig J Spearing, Annie Stegg, Zack Stella, Matt Stewart, Raymond Swanland, Justin Sweet, Anne Stokes, Matias Tapia, Cory Trego-Erdner, Autumn Rain Turkel, Cyril Van Der Haegen, David Vargo, Franz Vohwinkel, Richard Whitters, Sam Wood, Ben Wootten, Kieran Yanner, Min Yum, Mark Zug
Additional Contributors: Neil Shinkle, Kim Graham, John Hay
Project
Management: Neil Shinkle, Kim Graham, John Hay
Production Services: Cynda Callaway, Brian Dumas, Jefferson Dunlap, David Gershman, Matt Knannlein, Anita Williams
Brand and Marketing: Nathan Stewart, Liz Schuh, Chris Lindsay, Shelly Mazzanoble, Hilary Ross, Laura Tommervik, Kim Lundstrom, Trevor Kidd
Based on the original
game created by:E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, with Brian Blume, Rob Kuntz, James Ward, and Don Kaye
Drawing from
further development by: J. Eric Holmes, Tom Moldvay, Frank Mentzer, Aaron Allston, Harold Johnson, David "Zeb" Cook, Ed Greenwood, Keith Baker, Tracy Hickman, Margaret Weis, Douglas Niles, Jeff Grubb, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Richard Baker, Peter Adkison, Bill Slavicsek, Andy Collins, and Rob Heinsoo
Playtesting provided
by: over 175,000 fans of D&D. Thank you!
Additional feedback provided by: Robert Alaniz, Anthony Caroselli, Josh Dillard, Curt Duval, Sam E. Simpson Jr., Adam Hennebeck, Sterling Hershey, Paul Hughes, Doug Irwin, Ken J. Breese, Yan Lacharité, Tom Lommel, Jonathan Longstaff, Rory Madden, Matt Maranda, Paul Melamed, Mike Mihalas, David Milman, Daren Mitchell, Claudio Pozas, John Proudfoot, Karl Resch, M. Sean Molley, Sam Sherry, Pieter Sleijpen, David "Oak" Stark, Vincent Venturella, Fredrick Wheeler, Arthur Wright