Rob Donoghue is a

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who has worked primarily on

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s. 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

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on the

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games, a lead designer for '' Leverage: The Roleplaying Game'', and as a designer for ''

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''. He has also contributed to ''

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'' 4th edition publications.

Career

Rob Donoghue was a friend of Fred Hicks, and was among the people in 1999 working with Hicks running

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events at AmberCon NorthWest. Hicks and Donoghue developed ''

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'' after talking about their problems with ''

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'', and they released ''FATE'' on the internet through Evil Hat. Donoghue and Hicks released the first edition of ''FATE'' through

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in January 2003, and then produced a second edition that they published in August 2003. Donoghue wrote the game '' Spirit of the Century'' (2006), with Leonard Balsera. Hicks and Donoghue formed the company One Bad Egg in 2008 with Chris Hanrahan and

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to publish PDFs for ''

'' 4th edition. Donoghue and Hicks were two of the nine designers who wrote '' The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game''. Donoghue co-designed '' Leverage: The Roleplaying Game'' (2011) with other writers including

and Clark Valentine for

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

References

External links

Rob Donoghue blog
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