Amanda Hamon Kunz
American game designer
Amanda Hamon Kunz is an American game designer known for her work on the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and other d20 role-playing game products.
Career
Journalist and freelance writer
During her time in high school, Kunz joined some friends' long-running Dungeons & Dragons campaign. In 2006, while Kunz was enrolled at Eastern Michigan University, she began to play some of White Wolf Press's modern-day horror roleplaying games. She decided to attend Gencon, and Kunz was impressed by how easy it was for attendees to chat with the authors and designers of the games she enjoyed playing. After graduation, Kunz became a journalist and reported on health, science, and government issues for several different newspapers and organizations.
She was still enjoying role-playing games, and in 2011, she decided she would like to become an editor in the games industry. She returned to Gencon, this time to develop contacts with games companies, one of them being Wolfgang Baur of Kobold Press. In addition to her journalism work, she began to write freelance articles for several companies, including Hammerdog Games, Kobold Press, Legendary Games, Mechanical Muse, and Paizo Publishing. Between 2012 and 2015, she wrote or contributed to 19 Paizo articles and sourcebooks.
Kobold Press
In 2012, Wolfgang Baur hired her as an editor for Kobold Press.
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