Keith Baker (game designer)

Keith Baker (born July 7, 1969) is a game designer and fantasy novel author.

Career

In 2002, Keith Baker was a freelancer best known for his thematic work at Atlas Games.^[1]^: 291 His Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting of Eberron was chosen as the winner among the 11,000 submissions to the Wizards of the Coast Fantasy Setting Search in 2002.^[1]^: 291^[2] Baker produced the Eberron Campaign Setting (2004) alongside James Wyatt and Bill Slavicsek, the first of many background books focused on the setting.^[1]^: 294 In addition to working with Wizards of the Coast on Eberron material, he has also contributed material for Goodman Games, Paizo Publishing and Green Ronin Games^[3] He lives in Portland, Oregon. He has a tattoo of the Greater Mark of Making on his right arm.^[4] Prior to working in the role-playing game industry, he worked in the video game industry with Magnet Interactive Studios and a Colorado company, VR1.^[5]

Baker has won an Origins Award twice, first in 2004 for Best Roleplaying Game Supplement as part of the team for the Eberron campaign setting,^[6] then alone in 2005 for Traditional Card Game of the Year for Gloom, published by Atlas Games.^[7]

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)
Eberron Campaign Guide, w/ James Wyatt (July 2009, ISBN 978-0-7869-5099-7)

The Complete Guide to Wererats (March 2003, ISBN 978-0-9712767-8-9)
The Complete Guide to Beholders, w/ Thomas Denmark and Michael Ericksen (June 2003, ISBN 978-0-9726241-8-3)
The Complete Guide to Doppelgangers (February 2007, ISBN 978-0-9712767-7-2)
The Creatures of Freeport, w/ Graeme Davis (May 2004, ISBN 978-1-932442-19-9)
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)

"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.

"...And Weave The Spider's Web" - Foreshadows: The Ghosts of Zero (February 2012, ISBN 978-1-4675-1060-8)

He appears in a cameo in the comic book The Order of the Stick: Start of Darkness by Rich Burlew.

^ ^a ^b ^c Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
^ Wizards of the Coast Announcement GamingReport.com. Retrieved on August 28, 2008.
^ Keith Baker's resume, including his work for these companies.
^ [1] Retrieved on April 12, 2009.
^ Baker, Keith. "Resume". BossyTheCow.com/hdwt. Retrieved 2007-03-21.
^ "Origins Winners of 2004". Archived from the original on November 20, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-17. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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^ "Keith Baker". Archived from the original on Feb 24, 2009.