Editing Richard Garfield (section)

===Wizards of the Coast===
''Magic: The Gathering'' launched in 1993. Playtesters began independently developing [[expansion pack]]s, which were then passed to Garfield for his final edit.<ref name="elias 02" /> In June 1994, Garfield left academia to join Wizards of the Coast as a full-time game designer.<ref name="vasel 05" /> Garfield managed the hit game wisely, balancing player experience with business needs and allowing other designers to contribute creatively to the game.<ref name = "Varney"/> With his direction, Wizards established a robust tournament system for ''Magic'', something that was new to hobby gaming.<ref name = "Varney"/>

Wizards finally released Garfield's ''RoboRally'' in 1994.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|292}} Wizards published Garfield's ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]''-based CCG ''Jyhad'' in 1994, but changed the name to ''[[Vampire: The Eternal Struggle]]'' in 1995 to avoid offense to Muslims.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|219, 279}} ''[[Netrunner]]'' (1996) was Garfield's CCG based on ''[[Cyberpunk 2020]]'', where he included an element that made it an asymmetrical game, so that the two players each had entirely different cards, abilities, and goals.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|211, 281}} Wizards published the ''[[BattleTech Collectible Card Game]]'' in 1996, based on a design by Garfield.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|126}} Peter Adkison was developing a ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' MMORPG based on a design from Garfield and [[Skaff Elias]], but left Wizards in December 2000 after Hasbro sold the ''D&D'' computer rights and cancelled the project.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|290}}

In 1999, Garfield was inducted into the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame alongside ''Magic''.<ref name="Hall of Fame"/> He was a primary play tester for the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' 3rd edition bookset, released by Wizards in 2000. He eventually left Wizards to become an independent game designer.<ref name="vasel 05" />