Keith Baker (game designer)
| Keith Baker | |
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| Born | July 7, 1969 |
| Occupation | writer, game designer |
| 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
- Eberron Campaign Setting, w/ Bill Slavicsek and James Wyatt (June 2004, ISBN 0-7869-3276-7)
- Sharn: City of Towers, w/ James Wyatt (November 2004, ISBN 0-7869-3434-4)
- Races of Eberron, w/ Jesse Decker, Matthew Sernett, and Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel (April 2005, ISBN 0-7869-3658-4)
- Player's Guide to Eberron, w/ James Wyatt, Luke Johnson, and Stan! (January 2006, ISBN 0-7869-3912-5)
- Secrets of Xen'drik, w/ Jason Buhlman and Amber Scott (July 2006, ISBN 0-7869-3916-8)
- Dragonmarked, w/ Michelle Lyons and C.A. Suleiman (November 2006, ISBN 0-7869-3933-8)
- Secrets of Sarlona, w/ Scott Fitzgerald Gray, Glenn McDonald, and Chris Sims (February 2007, ISBN 0-7869-4037-9)
- Dragons of Eberron w/ Scott Fitzgerald Gray, Nicolas Logue, and Amber Scott (October 2007, ISBN 978-0-7869-4154-4)
- City of Stormreach w/ Nicolas Logue, James "Grim" Desborough, and C.A. Suleiman (February 2008, ISBN 978-0-7869-4803-1)
- Eberron Campaign Guide, w/ James Wyatt (July 2009, ISBN 978-0-7869-5099-7)
Adventures
- Shadows of the Last War (July 2004, ISBN 0-7869-3276-7).[8]
- Khyber's Harvest (June 2009, Free adventure released for Free RPG Day 2009)
Other
- The Complete Guide to Wererats (March 2003, ISBN 978-0-9712767-8-9)
- The Complete Guide to Beholders, w/ Thomas Denmark and Michael Ericksen (June 2003, ISBN 978-0-9726241-8-3)
- The Complete Guide to Doppelgangers (February 2007, ISBN 978-0-9712767-7-2)
- The Creatures of Freeport, w/ Graeme Davis (May 2004, ISBN 978-1-932442-19-9)
- Crime & Punishment: The Player's Sourcebook of the Law (March 2003, ISBN 1-58978-039-6)
- The Ebon Mirror, a D20 System adventure (January 2002, ISBN 1-58978-010-8)
- Friends of the Dragon, w/ Will Hindmarch (2004, ISBN 1-58978-054-X)
Eberron fiction credits
The Dreaming Dark trilogy
- The City of Towers (Keith Baker, February 2005, ISBN 0-7869-3584-7)
- The Shattered Land (Keith Baker, February 2006, ISBN 0-7869-3821-8)
- The Gates of Night (Keith Baker, November 2006, ISBN 0-7869-4013-1)
Thorn of Breland trilogy
- The Queen of Stone (Keith Baker, November 2008, ISBN 978-0-7869-5009-6)
- Son of Khyber (Keith Baker, November 2009, ISBN 978-0-7869-5234-2)
- The Fading Dream (Keith Baker, October 2010, ISBN 978-0-7869-5624-1)
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
- "...And Weave The Spider's Web" - Foreshadows: The Ghosts of Zero (February 2012, ISBN 978-1-4675-1060-8)
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
- 1 2 3 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast Announcement GamingReport.com. Retrieved on August 28, 2008.
- ↑ Keith Baker's resume, including his work for these companies.
- ↑ Retrieved on April 12, 2009.
- ↑ Baker, Keith. "Resume". BossyTheCow.com/hdwt. Retrieved 2007-03-21.
- ↑ "Origins Winners of 2004". Archived from the original on November 20, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
- ↑ "Origins Winners of 2005". Archived from the original on November 20, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
- ↑ "Keith Baker". Archived from the original on Feb 24, 2009.
External links
- Bossy The Cow- Keith Baker's homepage
- Keith Baker at BoardGameGeek
- G2V Podcast interview with Keith Baker
- Pen & Paper listing for Keith Baker
- Interview with Keith Baker, GameSpy, August 20, 2004.
- Interview with Keith Baker, IGN.com - archived on wayback machine
- Keith Baker at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database