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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CharlesRyan" data-source="post: 4315585" data-attributes="member: 5265">Close, but not quite. Designers write the content, including both mechanics and fluff. Developers work with the mechanics to hone them and make sure they work with all the mechanics done by the other designers (which are often designed at the same time or so recently that not everyone is aware of all of them).It appears that in 4E, the design team was split into a mechanical side and a story side.So in answer to the OP's question:Rob Heinsoo was the lead designer, in charge of the mechanics. A lot of people (probably everyone on the R&D design team) also did design.James Wyatt was the story lead. Again, he had a lot of help.Andy Collins is WotC R&D's development manager. He's listed first among the developers in the credits. If follows that he was therefore the lead developer, but I don't know that for a fact.In the credits, all three of them are listed as the "4E design team," so you could basically say they're the guys that wrote the game. But, again, they had a whole lotta help.Finally, Mike is credited as a developer, and also as part of the "4E Final Development Strike Team." So it sounds like he had a really instrumental role in making sure the game came together mechanically.</blockquote>