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Paul Czege is a designer of tabletop
role-playing games
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal ac ...
. His ''
My Life With Master
''My Life with Master'' is an independently published role-playing game written by Paul Czege and published by Half Meme Press (it was first released at the 2003 Gen Con gaming convention).
''My Life with Master'' is a game about role-playing th ...
'' was the third role-playing game to win the
Diana Jones award
The Diana Jones Award is an annual award for "excellence in Role-playing game, gaming". The original award was made from a burned book encased in lucite. The award is unusual in two ways: first, it is not an award for a specific class of thing, b ...
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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."
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Biography
Game design
Czege was a member of The Forge and later became a publisher of indie role-playing game
An indie role-playing game is a role-playing game published outside traditional, "mainstream" means. Varying definitions require that commercial, design, or conceptual elements of the game stay under the control of the creator, or that the game ...
s. He is one of the more influential game designers who started developing games at The Forge[InterNosCon 2011 Guest of Honour profile](_blank)
/ref> 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.["Small Press, Big Game #6: Paul Czege"](_blank)
RPG.net
RPGnet is a role-playing game website. It includes sections on wargames, tabletop games and video games, as well as columns on gaming topics.
RPGnet was founded in 1996 by Emma and Sandy Antunes, Shawn Althouse ( etrigan) and Brian David Phillip ...
column
Games
* ''The World, the Flesh, and the Devil''
* ''Nicotine Girls''
* ''My Life with Master
''My Life with Master'' is an independently published role-playing game written by Paul Czege and published by Half Meme Press (it was first released at the 2003 Gen Con gaming convention).
''My Life with Master'' is a game about role-playing th ...
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* ''The Valedictorian’s Death''
* ''Bacchanal''
* ''Specimen for the Resurrection''
* ''Acts of Evil'' (released incomplete)
* ''The Niche Engine''
* ''Honeydew''
* ''Thy Vernal Chieftains''
* ''The Clay that Woke''
References
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American game designers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Role-playing game designers
Indie role-playing game designers
Year of birth missing (living people)