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 Schick interviewed in 2016 | |
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| Occupation | Game designer, writer, |
| Alma mater | Kent State University |
Lawrence Schick is a game designer [2] and writer [1] associated with role-playing games.
Lawrence Schick | |
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| Schick interviewed in 2016 | |
| Born | United States |
| Pen name |
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| Occupation | Game designer, writer, |
| Alma mater | Kent State University |
Lawrence Schick is a game designer [2] and writer [1] associated with role-playing games.
Schick attended Kent State University in Ohio. [3]
Schick, as the head of design and development at TSR, brought aboard Tom Moldvay and David Cook and many other new employees as TSR continued to grow in the early 1980s. [4] : 11 Schick created White Plume Mountain in 1979, an adventure module for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, published by TSR in 1979; the adventure was incorporated into the Greyhawk setting after the publication of the World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1980). [4] : 24 White Plume Mountain was ranked the 9th greatest Dungeons & Dragons adventure of all time by Dungeon magazine in 2004; one judge, commenting on the ingenuity required to complete the adventure, described it as "the puzzle dungeon to end all puzzle dungeons." [5]
In 1981, he contributed to Chaosium's multi-system box set Thieves' World based on Robert Lynn Asprin's anthology series of the same title. [6] The following year, he coauthored the TSR science fiction RPG Star Frontiers with David "Zeb" Cook. [7]
Schick wrote the book Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games, which was published in 1991. [8]
Schick has written many other games during his career. Schick is a former executive with America Online. [2] In May 2009, Schick joined ZeniMax Online Studios as the lead content designer for The Elder Scrolls Online .[ citation needed ] In 2010, he was promoted to lead writer,[ citation needed ] and he became lead loremaster in 2011.[ citation needed ] He left ZeniMax Online in 2019. [9] He has also been working on writing a mobile game for WarDucks in Dublin, Ireland. [10] Since 2021, he has worked at Larian Studios' Dublin office as a Principal Narrative Designer for role playing video game Baldur's Gate 3 . [11] [12] Schick and the other Baldur's Gate 3 writers won the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing. [13]
Mystara is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role playing game. It was the default setting for the "Basic" version of the game throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Most adventures published for the "Basic" edition of D&D take place in "The Known World", a central continent that includes a varied patchwork of both human and non-human realms. The human realms are based on various real-world historical cultures. In addition, unlike other D&D settings, Mystara had ascended immortal beings instead of gods.
The Keep on the Borderlands is a Dungeons & Dragons adventure module by Gary Gygax, first printed in December 1979. In it, player characters are based at a keep and investigate a nearby series of caves that are filled with a variety of monsters. It was designed to be used with the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, and was included in the 1979–1982 editions of the Basic Set. It was designed for people new to Dungeons & Dragons.
White Plume Mountain is an adventure module for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, written by Lawrence Schick and published by TSR in 1979. The 16-page adventure bears the code "S2". The adventure is a dungeon crawl where the players' characters are hired to retrieve three "notorious" magical weapons, each possessing its own intelligence. The adventure contains art by Erol Otus, and a cover by Jeff Dee. A sequel, Return to White Plume Mountain, was published in 1999, and an updated version conforming to v3.5 rules was released online in 2005. The original was again updated for the 5th edition in 2017 as the fourth part of Tales from the Yawning Portal.
Return to the Keep on the Borderlands is a 1999 adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It is a sequel to the original The Keep on the Borderlands module (B2) from 1979. Both modules were published by TSR, Inc.
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