Elliott Wu (The El)

I’ve been a game designer / developer even before I knew the term existed. I created my first game when I was about 8. It was a maze board game I drew up entirely with pencil on several sheets of notebook paper and far more rules than it deserved.

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In addition to a game enthusiast, I also work with the startup community as a business consultant and as an operation manager for a small telecom startup. Naturally, I spend a lot of time looking at indie game startups and studying the gaming industry from the perspective of a business analyst (With an accompanying blog that talks about raising money in the startup space for game development).

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I was trained as an IT/IS engineer at NYU, and focused mostly on project management through the years, culminating in an MBA from INSEAD with a specialization in Entrepreneurship and Finance and… you know what, that’s not all that interesting. If you cared about all of that, here’s my character sheet:

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Elliott Wu (3.5E style, because I’m old school like that)

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Lawful Neutral Human

Level 4 Project Manager / Level 1 Business Consultant / Level 2 Startup Operations Specialist

 

STR: 10, CON: 9, DEX: 9, INT: 13, WIS: 11, CHA: 10

 

 

Skills:

Knowledge (Comp Sci): 1, Knowledge (Business): 6, Knowledge (Game Development): 2, Knowledge (Information Systems): 3, Knowledge (Startups): 5, Knowledge (Finance): 2, Knowledge (Project Management): 6, Knowledge (Martial Lore): 1, Listen: 2, Oratory: 2, Excel Monkey 2

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Feats:

Skill Focus (Knowledge Business), Improved Snark, Baldness of Power

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Abilities:

Captain Obvious: Elliott has the ability to make observation so blindingly obvious its stupidity can stun all sentient (int 2+) beings within hearing distance for 1d4+1 rounds, will save DC 14 to avoid effect.

 

Clumsy: All magical items used by Elliott has a 20% of malfunctioning / misfiring