Paul Czege

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Paul Czege
Occupation Writer, game designer
Genres Role-playing games

Paul Czege is a designer of tabletop role-playing games and with My Life With Master wrote one of only four role-playing games to win the Diana Jones award.[1] He is also the originator of the Czege Principle that states "when one person is the author of both the character's adversity and its resolution, play isn't fun."[2]

Biography

Game design

Paul Czege was a member of The Forge, and later became an indie publisher.[3]:407 Paul Czege is one of the more influential game designers who started developing games at The Forge[4] and is considered simultaneously one of the most prolific and one of the least prolific designers from that movement as he released nine games over a period of six years, but only fully published My Life With Master, releasing the rest for free.[5] Czege's My Life with Master (2004) won the fourth Diana Jones Aware at GenCon in 2004.[3]:408

Games

  • The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
  • Nicotine Girls
  • My Life with Master
  • The Valedictorian’s Death
  • Bacchanal
  • Specimen for the Resurrection
  • Acts of Evil (released incomplete)
  • The Niche Engine
  • Honeydew
  • Thy Vernal Chieftains.

References

  1. ↑ 2004 Winner - Diana Jones Award
  2. ↑ Lumpley Games discussion
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7. 
  4. ↑ InterNosCon 2011 Guest of Honour profile
  5. ↑ Small Press, Big Game #6: Paul Czege - RPG.net column
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