Rob Donoghue
{{Short description|American role-playing game designer}}
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Rob Donoghue is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Together with Fred Hicks he created the Fate system and has been designer or lead designer of numerous award-winning role playing games. He was a lead designer of the role-playing games Spirit of the Century and a designer of The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game, and has also worked closely with Cam Banks on the Cortex Plus games, a lead designer for Leverage: The Roleplaying Game, and as a designer for Marvel Heroic Roleplaying. He has also contributed to Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition publications.
Career
Rob Donoghue was a friend of Fred Hicks, and was among the people in 1999 working with Hicks running Live-action role-playing events at AmberCon NorthWest.{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}{{rp|421}} Hicks and Donoghue developed FATE after talking about their problems with FUDGE, and they released FATE on the internet through Evil Hat.{{rp|421}} Donoghue and Hicks released the first edition of FATE through Yahoo! Groups in January 2003, and then produced a second edition that they published in August 2003.{{rp|421}} Donoghue wrote the game Spirit of the Century (2006), with Leonard Balsera.{{rp|424}} Hicks and Donoghue formed the company One Bad Egg in 2008 with Chris Hanrahan and Justin D. Jacobson to publish PDFs for Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition.{{rp|425}} Donoghue and Hicks were two of the nine designers who wrote The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game.{{rp|425}} Donoghue co-designed Leverage: The Roleplaying Game (2011) with other writers including Cam Banks and Clark Valentine for Margaret Weis Productions.{{rp|354}}
His Dungeons & Dragons design work includes Dungeon Master's Guide 2 (2009) and Adventurer's Vault 2 (2009).
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External links
- [http://walkingmind.evilhat.com/ Rob Donoghue blog]
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Category:Dungeons & Dragons game designers