Lucien Soulban

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Lucien Soulban
Born
Saudi Arabia
NationalitySaudi Arabian
Occupation(s) Game designer, writer

Lucien Moussa Shukri Soulban [1] is a Saudi Arabian game designer and writer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Personal life

Lucien Soulban was born in Saudi Arabia, where he lived for 12 years before attending school in Texas. He later moved to Montreal. [1]

Career

Lucien Soulban wrote game material for White Wolf, Dream Pod 9, and other companies before being hired by Guardians of Order in 2000, and began work on Heaven & Earth (2001). [2] : 336  Soulban also developed Guardians of Order's superhero role-playing game Silver Age Sentinels (2002). [2] : 337  He subsequently went to White Wolf Games where he wrote the Orpheus role playing game [3] and a tie-in novel for Vampire: The Requiem . He also wrote a Warhammer 40000 novel, Desert Raiders. [4]

Soulban was a guest at Otakuthon in 2007, [5] and 2008. [6] [7]

His D&D work includes the game supplement Children of the Night: The Created (1999), and Dragonlance novels such as The Alien Sea (2006) and Renegade Wizards (2009).

He has written the script for the games: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas , Far Cry 3 , Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon , Far Cry 4 .[ citation needed ] and Watch Dogs 2 .[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Lucien Soulban".
  2. 1 2 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN   978-1-907702-58-7.
  3. ↑ "» Interview with Lucien Soulban".
  4. ↑ https://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/desert-raiders-ebook.html
  5. ↑ "Otakuthon 2007 Information". AnimeCons.ca. Retrieved 6 June 2008.
  6. ↑ "Otakuthon 2008 Information". AnimeCons.ca. Retrieved 23 August 2008.
  7. ↑ "Otakuthon Editions Information". TekNews.net. Retrieved 3 November 2008.


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