Rob Donoghue: Award-Winning RPG Designer

Rob Donoghue is a renowned American game designer known for his contributions to the role-playing game industry. He co-created the popular Fate system and has worked on numerous acclaimed titles, including Spirit of the Century, The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game, and Leverage: The Roleplaying Game. Donoghue has also collaborated on Dungeons & Dragons publications and has been a driving force in the evolution of modern tabletop gaming.

American role-playing game designer

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.

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

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