Eric Dodds

Eric Dodds is a former employee who previously served as Game Director for Hearthstone.

Ben Brode was promoted to Dodds' previous title of Game Director in late 2016. Dodds subsequently moved to another project within the company in the form of a StarCraft first-person shooter game. The project was cancelled in May of 2019, after which Dodds left Blizzard alongside Dustin Browder and Jason Chayes.

Dodds is featured in the credits card of the same name.

Official
''As Blizzard Entertainment's lead designer for Hearthstone™: Heroes of Warcraft™, Eric Dodds oversees all aspects of gameplay, including card design, gameplay balance, game modes, and the user interface.

''Dodds joined Blizzard Entertainment in 1997, and during his lengthy tenure with the company has served in key roles on numerous games. His first role was working on StarCraft® and Diablo® in quality assurance. Dodds then went on to serve as a level designer on StarCraft: Brood War® and Warcraft® II: Battle.net® Edition as well as on the strike team for Diablo II and the Lord of Destruction® expansion. He then joined the newly formed World of Warcraft® team and spent eight years serving as a systems designer. More recently he worked on the design of Diablo III before joining the Hearthstone team.

''Dodds is a board gaming enthusiast who is always up for a game of Galaxy Trucker or Liar’s Dice.

Trivia

 * Dodds is paid tribute to in World of Warcraft by the NPC "", found in Duskwood. He was also the inspiration for the intentionally mismatching "" items - "Ed[ward the] Odd" being rather close to E. Dodds.

Card art

 * The art used for Dodds' credits card was created by Zoltan Boros and depicts Dodds' tribute character.
 * The same art is used for the game's debug cards.