Wolfgang Baur

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Wolfgang Baur (born 1968)[1] is an American game designer, best known for his work with Dragon magazine. He designs role-playing games and also is known for his work at Wizards of the Coast.

Biography

Wolfgang Baur was born in a suburb of Chicago, and later attended the University of Illinois and then Cornell University for graduate studies in biochemistry and molecular biology to pursue an academic career in research.[2] When he ran out of funding in 1991, Baur took a temporary job as assistant editor to Barbara Young at Dungeon magazine: "By the time my scholarship was reinstated, I didn't want to go back... I'd been writing for Dungeon Adventures and Iron Crown, but this was an opportunity to work in a field I loved."[2]

Baur was involved in many projects at TSR as either designer or editor, including Dungeon and Dragon magazines, the Planescape (Planes of Law, Planes of Chaos), Al-Qadim (Secrets of the Lamp, Assassin Mountain), and Birthright settings (Warlock of the Stonecrowns), editing the Star*Drive setting, Dataware', and Doom of Daggerdale.[2] Baur also worked for ICE on books such as Treasures of Middle-earth.[2] Baur also worked on the Dark•Matter setting for the Alternity science fiction role-playing game.[2]

Currently, he is the "Kobold-in-chief" for Open Design LLC, and editor-in-chief of its quarterly periodical Kobold Quarterly.[3] He won the eighth annual Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming in 2008.[4] Kobold Quarterly and Open Design won five ENnie Awards in 2009.

Baur maintains several RPG and writing related interests beyond his magazine. For instance, he is a member of the Alliterates (a group of local and national authors),[5] and serves as a judge for the RPG Superstar competitions, as part of a three-judge panel of respected figures from the field.[6]

Media mentions

Wolfgang has appeared in the following newspaper and magazine articles, websites and podcasts.

Podcasts

  • Atomic Array:[7] Wolfgang appeared on these episodes: 009[8] (Kobold Quarterly 007), 015[9] (Kobold Quarterly 008), and 021[10] (Kobold Quarterly 009).
  • Open Design:[11] Co-host with Ed Healy and Rone Barton. The official podcast for Wolfgang's publishing company.
  • RPG Countdown:[12] Wolfgang appeared on these episodes: 22 April 2009[13] (Kobold Quarterly 009), 6 November 2009[14] (Kobold Quarterly 011).

References

  1. ↑ Steven Kenson (November 1999). Dragon Magazine (265). 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Kenson, Stephen (November 1999). "ProFiles: Wolfgang Baur". Dragon (Renton, Washington: Wizards of the Coast) (#265): 28. 
  3. ↑ "Grand Old Master of gaming recognized: Ed Greenwood". Colborne Chronicle. 2008-06-12. p. 8. 
  4. ↑ "http://www.dianajonesaward.org/08winner.html". August 2008. 
  5. ↑ "http://alliterates.com/". 
  6. ↑ "RPGsuperstar". Paizo. 
  7. ↑ Atomic Array. Atomic Array on Facebook.
  8. ↑ Kobold Quarterly 007 (Atomic Array 009). Retrieved 07 November 2008.
  9. ↑ Kobold Quarterly 008 (Atomic Array 015). Retrieved 30 January 2009.
  10. ↑ Kobold Quarterly 009 (Atomic Array 021). Retrieved 24 April 2009.
  11. ↑ Open Design Podcast. Open Design on Facebook.
  12. ↑ RPG Countdown. RPG Countdown on Facebook.
  13. ↑ RPG Countdown (22 April 2009). Retrieved 22 April 2009.
  14. ↑ RPG Countdown (06 November 2009). Retrieved 06 November 2009.

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