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American game designer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wolfgang Baur (born 1968)[1] is an American game designer, best known for his work with Dragon magazine. He designs role-playing games and is known for his work at Wizards of the Coast. Baur is also the founder of Open Design LLC, later known as Kobold Press.
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Born | 1968 (age 55–56) Illinois, United States |
Occupation(s) | Game designer, writer |
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.[1] 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."[1]
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.[1] Baur also worked for ICE on books such as Treasures of Middle-earth.[1] Baur also worked on the Dark•Matter setting for the Alternity science fiction role-playing game.[1] His roleplaying game titles include Frostburn, Expedition to the Demonweb Pits, Book of Roguish Luck, Castle Shadowcrag, and Empire of the Ghouls.[2]
Baur was the "Kobold-in-chief" for Open Design LLC (which changed its name to Kobold Press in 2012[3]), and was editor-in-chief of its quarterly periodical Kobold Quarterly.[4] Open Design published Kobold Quarterly #1 (Summer 2007) before the final print issue of Dragon.[5]: 390 Baur stated on July 17, 2008, that the GSL was "absolutely terrible for Kobold Quarterly," as the periodical would be unable to publish material for both D&D third edition and fourth edition.[5]: 296 He won the eighth annual Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming in 2008.[6] Kobold Quarterly and Open Design won five ENnie Awards in 2009.
Baur is a member of the Alliterates (a group of local and national authors),[7] and serves as a judge for the RPG Superstar competitions, as part of a three-judge panel of respected figures from the field.[8]
Wolfgang has appeared in the following newspaper and magazine articles, websites and podcasts.
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