Keith Baker (game designer)

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Keith Baker
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Born (1969-07-07) July 7, 1969 (age 54)
Occupation writer
Genre role-playing games, fantasy

Keith Baker (born July 7, 1969) is a game designer and fantasy novel author.

Career

In 2002, Keith Baker was a freelancer best known for his thematic work at Atlas Games.[1]:291 His Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting of Eberron was chosen as the winner among the 11,000 submissions to the Wizards of the Coast Fantasy Setting Search in 2002.[1]:291[2] Baker produced the Eberron Campaign Setting (2004) alongside James Wyatt and Bill Slavicsek, the first of many background books focused on the setting.[1]:294 In addition to working with Wizards of the Coast on Eberron material, he has also contributed material for Goodman Games, Paizo Publishing and Green Ronin Games[3] He lives in Portland, Oregon. He has a tattoo of the Greater Mark of Making on his right arm.[4] Prior to working in the role-playing game industry, he worked in the video game industry with Magnet Interactive Studios and a Colorado company, VR1.[5]

Baker has won an Origins Award twice, first in 2004 for Best Roleplaying Game Supplement as part of the team for the Eberron campaign setting,[6] then alone in 2005 for Traditional Card Game of the Year for Gloom, published by Atlas Games.[7]

Selected role-playing game credits

Eberron

Accessories

Adventures

Other

Eberron fiction credits

The Dreaming Dark trilogy

Thorn of Breland trilogy

Short stories

  • "Death at Whitehearth," in Tales of the Last War (April 2006, ISBN 0-7869-3986-9)
  • "Principles of Fire," in Dragons: Worlds Afire (June 2006, ISBN 0-7869-4166-9)
  • "Shadows of Stormreach," online serial story.

Other fiction credits

Short stories

Comic books

  • Eberron: Eye of the Wolf (Artist: Chris Lie, June 2006)

Trivia

He appears in a cameo in the comic book The Order of the Stick: Start of Darkness by Rich Burlew.

References

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  2. Wizards of the Coast Announcement GamingReport.com. Retrieved on August 28, 2008.
  3. Keith Baker's resume, including his work for these companies.
  4. [1] Retrieved on April 12, 2009.
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