Tom Chilton

Who is Tom Chilton?

Tom "Kalgan" Chilton is a lead game designer for Blizzard Entertainment, and is currently the Game Director for the MMORPG World of Warcraft. He has been referred to as "Blizzard's PvP guru." Chilton, along with Rob Pardo and Jeffrey Kaplan, were the three Lead Designers for World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade; he was one of six Game Designers.

Chilton was on the developer panels at BlizzCon 2005 in October 2005 and BlizzCon 2007 in August 2007. At BlizzCon 2005, he was on the developer panels for discussions about character classes, dungeon creation, raids, and battlegrounds. At BlizzCon 2007, he was on the developer panels for discussions about classes, PvP, user interface and mods, and professions and items. He also appeared on panels during BlizzCon 2009, BlizzCon 2011, and BlizzCon 2013.

He previously worked for Origin Systems and was Lead Designer for Ultima Online: Age of Shadows.

Chilton attended the University of Arizona, and is a fan of the webcomic PvP.