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| Born | July 7, 1969 |
| Occupation | writer |
| Genres | role-playing games, fantasy |
Keith Baker is a freelance writer of Dungeons & Dragons material and is most well known for his setting, Eberron, which won the Wizards of the Coast Fantasy Setting Search. Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A literary genre is a category of literary composition Genres may be determined by Literary technique, tone, Content, or even (as in the case of fiction A role-playing game ( RPG; often roleplaying game) is a Game in which the participants assume the roles of Fictional characters. Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a Fantasy Role-playing game (RPG originally designed by Eberron is a Campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons Role-playing game, set in a period after a vast destructive war on the continent of Wizards of the Coast (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of Games primarily based on Fantasy and In addition to working with Wizards of the Coast on Eberron material, he has also contributed material for Atlas Games, Goodman Games, and Green Ronin Games. Atlas Games is a company which publishes Role-playing games Board games and Card games Its current president is John Nephew. Goodman Games is an American publisher of Games, primarily based on Fantasy and Science fiction themes He lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife Ellen. Boulder is a Home Rule Municipality that is the County seat and most populous city of Boulder County, Colorado, in the United States He has a tattoo of the Greater Mark of Making on his right arm. Dragonmarked houses are organizations set in the Eberron Campaign Setting of the Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Role-Playing Game Prior to working in the role-playing game industry, he worked in the video game industry. A role-playing game ( RPG; often roleplaying game) is a Game in which the participants assume the roles of Fictional characters. A video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. [1]
Baker has won the Origins Award twice, first in 2004 for Best Roleplaying Game Supplement as part of the team for the Eberron Campaign Setting, then alone in 2005 for Traditional Card Game of the Year for Gloom, by Atlas Games. The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry The following are the winners of the 31st annual Origins Award, held in 2005: Best of Class Awards Vanguard Awards All Wound Up The following are the winners of the 32nd annual Origins Award, held in 2006 Hall of Fame inductees Aaron Allston Jolly R
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Selected Game Credits
Eberron
Accessories
- Eberron Campaign Setting, w/ Bill Slavicsek and James Wyatt (June 2004, ISBN 0-7869-3276-7)
- Sharn: City of Towers, w/ James Wyatt (November 2004, ISBN 0-7869-3434-4)
- Races of Eberron, w/ Jesse Decker, Matthew Sernett, and Gwendolyn F. M. Kestrel (April 2005, ISBN 0-7869-3658-4)
- Player's Guide to Eberron, w/ James Wyatt, Luke Johnson, and Stan! (January 2006, ISBN 0-7869-3912-5)
- Secrets of Xen'drik, w/ Jason Buhlman and Amber Scott (July 2006, ISBN 0-7869-3916-8)
- Dragonmarked, w/ Michelle Lyons and C. A. Suleiman (November 2006, ISBN 0-7869-3933-8)
- Secrets of Sarlona, w/ Scott Fitzgerald Gray, Glenn McDonald, and Chris Sims (February 2007, ISBN 0-7869-4037-9)
- Dragons of Eberron w/ Scott Fitzgerald Gray, Nicolas Logue, and Amber Scott (October 2007, ISBN 978-0-7869-4154-4)
- City of Stormreach w/ Nicolas Logue, James "Grim"' Desborough, and C. A. Suleiman (February 2008, ISBN 978-0-7869-4803-1)
Adventures
- Shadows of the Last War (July 2004, ISBN 0-7869-3276-7). The Adventures are a Rock band formed in Belfast in the 1980s and moved to London where they had hits in the UK Singles Chart during
Other Game Credits
- The Complete Guide to Wererats (March 2003, ISBN 978-0-9712-7678-9)
- The Complete Guide to Beholders, w/ Thomas Denmark and Michael Ericksen (June 2003, ISBN 978-0-9726-2418-3)
- The Complete Guide to Doppelgangers (February 2007, ISBN 978-0-9712-7677-2)
- The Creatures of Freeport, w/ Graeme Davis (May 2004, ISBN 978-1-9324-4219-9)
- Crime & Punishment: The Player's Sourcebook of the Law (March 2003, ISBN 1-58978-039-6)
- The Ebon Mirror, a D20 System adventure (January 2002, ISBN 1-58978-010-8)
- Friends of the Dragon, w/ Will Hindmarch (2004, ISBN 1-58978-054-X)
Eberron Fiction Credits
The Dreaming Dark Trilogy
- The City of Towers (Keith Baker, February 2005, ISBN 0-7869-3584-7)
- The Shattered Land (Keith Baker, February 2006, ISBN 0-7869-3821-8)
- The Gates of Night (Keith Baker, November 2006, ISBN 0-7869-4013-1)
Short Stories
- Death at Whitehearth, in Tales of the Last War (April 2006, ISBN 0-7869-3986-9)
- Principles of Fire, in Dragons: Worlds Afire (June 2006, ISBN 0-7869-4166-9)
- Shadows of Stormreach, online serial story. The short story is a literary genre of Fictional Prose Narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such
Comic Books
- Eberron: Eye of the Wolf (Artist: Chris Lie, June 2006)
Interviews with Keith Baker
- Fantasy Setting Search Closes in on Finalists, Wizards of the Coast, December 2002. A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative
- Interview with Keith Baker, GameSpy, August 20, 2004.
- An Interview with Keith Baker, Jhonen Olain's Eberron Journal, undated.
- Interview with Keith Baker, Dungeons and Dragons Vault at IGN.com, undated.
- Interview with Keith Baker and James Wyatt (AUDIO), Fist Full of Comics and Games, August 26, 2007.
References
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