Richard Baker (game designer)

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Richard Baker (full name L. Richard Baker III) is an American author and a game designer who has worked on many Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings.

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[edit] Career

Rich originally lived on the Jersey shore, before graduating from Virginia Tech. He served as a deck officer on board the USS Tortuga and qualified as a Surface Warfare Officer before becoming a game designer. Since joining TSR in 1991, Rich has worked on most of TSR's product lines at one point or another. In 1995 he won an Origins Award for Best New Role-Playing Supplement, for the Birthright campaign setting.

Rich lived in New Jersey, Virginia, Rhode Island, Virginia again, Louisiana, Virginia a third time, and Wisconsin, but now lives in Kent, Washington, with his wife Kim, two daughters, and cats. He's a fan of Golden Age SF and the Philadelphia Phillies.

Rich is at the forefront of Wizards of the Coast's current range of Forgotten Realms and core Third Edition D&D accessory books, and author of several novels set in and below Faerûn. He also answers questions about the Forgotten Realms at the Wizards website's forums - see the below external links.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Forgotten Realms Accessory Books/Adventure Modules

Creative Director of:

  • Magic of Faerûn (2001)
  • Lords of Darkness (2001)
  • Races of Faerûn (2003)

Developer of:

[edit] Other Dungeons & Dragons Accessory Books/Adventure Modules

[edit] Novels

  • The Adventures
    • The Shadow Stone (1998)
  • Double Diamond Triangle Saga
    • Easy Betrayals (1998)
  • Star*Drive
    • Zero Point (1999)
  • The Last Mythal
    • Forsaken House (2004)
    • Farthest Reach (2005)
    • Final Gate (2006)

[edit] Boardgames

[edit] External links

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