Richard Baker - full name L. Richard Baker III - is an American author and game designer, for the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting.

Career

Rich originally lived on the Jersey shore, before graduating from from Virginia Tech. He served as a deck officer on board the USS Tortuga and qualified as a Surface Warfare Officer before becoming a game designer. Since joining TSR in 1991, Rich has worked on most of TSR's product lines at one point or another. In 1995 he won an Origins award for Best New Role-Playing Supplement, for the Birthright game setting.

Rich lived in New Jersey, Virginia, Rhode Island, Virginia again, Louisiana, Virginia a third time, and Wisconsin, but now lives in Kent, Washington, with his wife Kim, two daughters, and cats. He's a fan of Golden Age SF and the Philadelphia Phillies.

Rich is at the forefront of Wizards of the Coast's current range of Realms and core Third Edition D&D accessory books, and author of several novels set in and below Faerûn. He also answers questions about the Forgotten Realms at the Wizards website's forums - see the below external links.

Bibliography

Forgotten Realms Accessory Books/Adventure Modules

• Unapproachable East (2003)
• Player's Guide to Faerûn (2004)

Creative Director of:

• Magic of Faerûn (2001)
• Lords of Darkness (2001)
• Races of Faerûn (2003)

Developer of:

• Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (2001)
• Lords of Darkness (2001)
• Races of Faerûn (2003)
• Underdark (2003)

Other Dungeons & Dragons Accessory Books/Adventure Modules

• Spells & Magic
• The Falcon and the Wolf (Birthright) (1996)
• Planescape Monstrous Compendium II (Planescape) (1999)
• Forge of Fury (2000)
• Complete Arcane (Due November 2004)

Novels

• The Adventures
  • The Shadow Stone (1998)

• Double Diamond Triangle Saga
  • Easy Betrayals (1998)

• The Cities
  • The City of Ravens (2000)

• (R.A. Salvatore's) War of the Spider Queen
  • Condemnation (2003)

• The Last Mythal
  • Forsaken House (2004)
  • Farthest Reach (Due July 2005)
  • Final Gate (Due 2006)

External links

• RPG United Bio of Richard Baker
• Wizards.com interview
• The old 'Ask Richard Baker' thread at wizards.com forums
• The old 'Ask the Core Rules and Supplement Authors' thread at wizards.com forums
• The new 'Ask the Core Rules and Supplement Authors' thread at wizards.com forums