Vincent Baker

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Vincent Baker is the designer of the Indie role-playing games Dogs in the Vineyard, kill puppies for satan, Mechaton and others. His publishing imprint is called Lumpley Games. He currently resides in Greenfield, Massachusetts. He is the father of three children and is the husband of Meguey Baker, also a roleplaying game designer.

Baker and Emily Care Boss are attributed as formulating the Lumpley Principle (a.k.a. Baker-Care Principle) which states "System (including but not limited to 'the rules') is defined as the means by which the group agrees to imagined events during play." Further development of the Lumpley Principle described player contributions as being assigned credibility by the other players in the game.

Baker maintains a blog-style design journal called anyway.

[edit] Roleplaying bibliography

• kill puppies for satan
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Mechaton
• The Abductinators
• Matchmaker
• Poison'd (Ashcan)
• In a Wicked Age

[edit] External links

• Lumpley Games Home Page
• Lumpley Games Forum on The Forge
• anyway.