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.
Biography[]
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]
Media mentions[]
Wolfgang has appeared in the following newspaper and magazine articles, websites and podcasts.
Podcasts[]
- Atomic Array:[9] Wolfgang appeared on these episodes: 009[10] (Kobold Quarterly 007), 015[11] (Kobold Quarterly 008), and 021[12] (Kobold Quarterly 009).
- Open Design:[13] Co-host with Ed Healy and Rone Barton. The official podcast for Wolfgang's publishing company.
- RPG Countdown:[14] Wolfgang appeared on these episodes: 22 April 2009[15] (Kobold Quarterly 009), 6 November 2009[16] (Kobold Quarterly 011).
References[]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Kenson, Stephen (November 1999). "ProFiles: Wolfgang Baur". Dragon. Renton, Washington: Wizards of the Coast (#265): 28.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto module").
- ↑ Baur, Wolfgang (2007). Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Green Ronin Publishing, 172–175.
- ↑ Appelcline, Shannon (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '00s. Evil Hat Productions.
- ↑ "Grand Old Master of gaming recognized: Ed Greenwood". Colborne Chronicle. 2008-06-12. p. 8.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto module").
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing.
- ↑ Diana Jones Award 2008. (August 2008).
- ↑ Alliterates.com.
- ↑ RPGsuperstar. Paizo.
- ↑ Atomic Array. Atomic Array on Facebook.
- ↑ Kobold Quarterly 007 (Atomic Array 009). Retrieved 07 November 2008.
- ↑ Kobold Quarterly 008 (Atomic Array 015). Retrieved 30 January 2009.
- ↑ Kobold Quarterly 009 (Atomic Array 021). Retrieved 24 April 2009.
- ↑ Open Design Podcast. Open Design on Facebook.
- ↑ RPG Countdown. RPG Countdown on Facebook.
- ↑ RPG Countdown (22 April 2009). Retrieved 22 April 2009.
- ↑ RPG Countdown (06 November 2009). Retrieved 06 November 2009.
External links[]
- Kobold Press
- Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters archiveurl and archivedate must be both specified or both omitted. Wolfgang Baur at The Pen and Paper Database.
- Interviews and Q&As
- Podcast at The Tome Show
- Bradford Ferguson (June 4, 2008). 4th Edition D&D. 4ereviews.com.
- Pulp Gamer, Inside Track
- Writing for Pay
- Ollamh Lorekeeper, Part 1
- Ollamh Lorekeeper, Part 2
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