Canon:Richard Baker
L. Richard Baker III, better known as Rich Baker, is a game designer who has worked on many campaign settings. He is also a member of the team developing D&D4.
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Career
Rich originally lived on the Jersey shore, before graduating from Virginia Tech. He served as a deck officer on board the USS Tortuga and qualified as a Surface Warfare Officer before becoming a game designer. Since joining TSR in 1991, Rich has worked on most of TSR's product lines at one point or another. In 1995 he won an Origins Award for Best New Role-Playing Supplement, for the Birthright campaign setting.
Rich lived in New Jersey, Virginia, Rhode Island, Virginia again, Louisiana, Virginia a third time, and Wisconsin, but now lives in Auburn, Washington, with his wife Kim, two daughters, and cats. He's a fan of Golden Age SF and the Philadelphia Phillies.
Rich is at the forefront of Wizards of the Coast's current range of Forgotten Realms and core Third Edition D&D accessory books, and author of several novels set in and below Faerûn. He also answers questions about the Forgotten Realms at the Wizards website's forums - see the below external links.
He is also at the forefront of designing the series "Axis and Allies: War at Sea", a game of tactical World War II naval battles.
Bibliography
His works include, but are not limited to:
- Generic D&D:
- Spells & Magic
- Forge of Fury (2000)
- Fiend Folio (2003)
- Ghostwalk (2003)
- Savage Species (2003)
- Complete Warrior (2003)
- Frostburn: Mastering the Perils of Ice and Snow (lead developer, 2004)
- Complete Arcane (2004)
- Complete Divine (2004)
- Complete Adventurer (2005)
- Lords of Madness: The Book of Aberrations (2005)
- Stormwrack (2005)
- Maelstrom (2005)
- Red Hand of Doom (2006)
- Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords (2006)
- Birthright
- Planescape
- Forgotten Realms
- Unapproachable East (2003)
- Player's Guide to Faerûn (2004)
- Creative Director of:
- Magic of Faerûn (2001)
- Lords of Darkness (2001)
- Faiths and Pantheons (2002)
- City of the Spider Queen (2002)
- Races of Faerûn (2003)
- Developer of:
- Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (2001)
- Lords of Darkness (2001)
- City of the Spider Queen (2002)
- Races of Faerûn (2003)
- Unapproachable East (2003)
- Underdark (2003)
- Lost Empires of Faerûn (2005)
- Champions of Ruin (2005)
Books
| Publication | System | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Birthright Campaign Setting | Dungeons and Dragons 2e | TSR |
| Complete Arcane | Dungeons and Dragons 3.5e | Wizards of the Coast |
| Lords of Madness | Dungeons and Dragons 3.5e | Wizards of the Coast |
| Manual of the Planes | Dungeons and Dragons 4e | Wizards of the Coast |
| Player's Guide to Faerûn | Dungeons and Dragons 3.5e | Wizards of the Coast |
| Princes of the Apocalypse | Dungeons and Dragons 5e | Wizards of the Coast |
| Red Hand of Doom | Dungeons and Dragons 3.5e | Wizards of the Coast |
| Stormwrack | Dungeons and Dragons 3.5e | Wizards of the Coast |
| Tome of Battle | Dungeons and Dragons 3.5e | Wizards of the Coast |
| Unapproachable East | Dungeons and Dragons 3e | Wizards of the Coast |
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