Rob Donoghue is a

game designer Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in ...

who has worked primarily on

role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...

s. Together with

Fred Hicks Fred Hicks is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Fred Hicks discovered the ''Fudge'' role-playing game system while online and used it for his games based on Roger Zelazny's ''The Chronicles of Amber''. Hick ...

he created the '' Fate system'' and has been designer or lead designer of numerous award-winning role playing games. He was a lead designer of the role-playing games '' Spirit of the Century'' and a designer of '' The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game'', and has also worked closely with

Cam Banks Cam Banks is a game designer known for his work on the Cortex System line of roleplaying games as lead designer for ''Marvel Heroic Roleplaying'', and the ''Big Damn Heroes Handbook'' supplement to the ''Serenity Role Playing Game'', among othe ...

on the

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games, a lead designer for '' Leverage: The Roleplaying Game'', and as a designer for ''

Marvel Heroic Roleplaying ''Marvel Heroic Roleplaying'' (abbreviated as ''MHR'' or ''MHRP'') is the fourth role-playing game set in the Marvel Universe published by Margaret Weis Productions under license from Marvel Comics (after '' Marvel Super Heroes RPG'', ''Marvel Sup ...

''. He has also contributed to ''

Dungeons & Dragons ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (T ...

'' 4th edition publications.

Career

Rob Donoghue was a friend of

, and was among the people in 1999 working with Hicks running Live-action role-playing events at AmberCon NorthWest. Hicks and Donoghue developed ''

FATE Destiny, sometimes referred to as fate (from Latin ''fatum'' "decree, prediction, destiny, fate"), is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. Fate Although ofte ...

'' after talking about their problems with ''

FUDGE Fudge is a type of confection that is made by mixing sugar, butter and milk, heating it to the soft-ball stage at , and then beating the mixture while it cools so that it acquires a smooth, creamy consistency. In texture, this crystalline can ...

'', and they released ''FATE'' to the internet through

Evil Hat Evil Hat Productions is a company that produces role-playing games and other tabletop games. Chief among them is the free indie RPG, ''Fate'', which has won numerous awards. History Fred Hicks had been working with Lydia Leong, Rob Donogh ...

. Donoghue and Hicks released the first edition of ''FATE'' through

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in January 2003, and then produced a second edition that they published in August 2003. Donoghue wrote the game '' Spirit of the Century'' (2006), with Leonard Balsera. Hicks and Donoghue form the company One Bad Egg in 2008 with Chris Hanrahan and Justin D. Jacobson to publish PDFs for ''

'' 4th edition. Donoghue and Hicks were two of the nine authors who were ultimately writing for '' The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game''. Donoghue co-designed '' Leverage: The Roleplaying Game'' (2011) with

, Clark Valentine, and others for

Margaret Weis Productions Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd. is a games publisher located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, United States and founded in 2004 after Margaret Weis and Don Perrin, the two founders of Sovereign Press, divorced. Games Margaret Weis Productions is ...

. His ''Dungeons & Dragons'' design work includes ''

Dungeon Master's Guide 2 ''Dungeon Master's Guide 2'' is a supplement to the 4th edition of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game. Contents ''Dungeon Master's Guide 2'' gives expansions for the Dungeon Master to add to a campaign. The ''Dungeon Master's Guide 2 ...

'' (2009) and '' Adventurer's Vault 2'' (2009).

References

External links

Rob Donoghue blog
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