Rob Donoghue

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Rob Donoghue
Nationality American
Occupation Game 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.

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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).

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