According to the current head of Shroud of the Avatar:
"Richard is still involved in SotA. He's never really worked on SotA except for the story stuff. So what he did for Episode 1 is same stuff he's doing here. He also does push, sometimes wacky, but usually good ideas on the project and he continues to do that stuff as well, but he is primarily a story guy."
https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/fr...