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Rob Donoghue

Rob Donoghue
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer

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.[1]: 421  Hicks and Donoghue developed FATE after talking about their problems with FUDGE, and they released FATE on the internet through Evil Hat.[1]: 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.[1]: 421  Donoghue wrote the game Spirit of the Century (2006), with Leonard Balsera.[1]: 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.[1]: 425  Donoghue and Hicks were two of the nine designers who wrote The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game.[1]: 425  Donoghue co-designed Leverage: The Roleplaying Game (2011) with other writers including Cam Banks and Clark Valentine for Margaret Weis Productions.[1]: 354 

His Dungeons & Dragons design work includes Dungeon Master's Guide 2 (2009) and Adventurer's Vault 2 (2009).

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
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