Lawrence Schick | |
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| Occupation | Game designer, writer, |
| Alma mater | Kent State University |
Lawrence Schick is an American game designer[2] and writer[1] associated with tabletop role-playing games and video games.
Schick attendedKent State University in Ohio.[3]
Schick, as the head of design and development atTSR, brought aboardTom Moldvay andDavid Cook and many other new employees as TSR continued to grow in the early 1980s.[4]: 11 Schick createdWhite Plume Mountain in 1979, anadventure module for theAdvanced Dungeons & Dragonsfantasyrole-playing game, published byTSR in 1979; the adventure was incorporated into theGreyhawk setting after the publication of theWorld of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1980).[4]: 24 White Plume Mountain was ranked the 9th greatestDungeons & Dragons adventure of all time byDungeon 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 toChaosium's multi-system box setThieves' World based onRobert Lynn Asprin's anthology series of the same title.[6] The following year, he coauthored the TSR science fiction RPGStar Frontiers withDavid "Zeb" Cook.[7]
Schick wrote the bookHeroic 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 withAmerica Online.[2] In May 2009, Schick joinedZeniMax Online Studios as the lead content designer forThe 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 atLarian Studios' Dublin office as a Principal Narrative Designer for role playing video gameBaldur's Gate 3.[11][12] Schick and the otherBaldur's Gate 3 writers won theNebula Award for Best Game Writing.[13]
Under the pseudonym Lawrence Ellsworth, Schick began translatingThe Red Sphinx, Alexander Dumas’s late-career sequel toThe Three Musketeers. He continued his work withThe Three Musketeers itself, published in February 2018, before deciding to provide modern English-language translations for the full trilogy of The d'Artagnan Romances as well as the two novels of The Count of Moret in nine volumes. As of 2025 all of the following volumes have been published:[14]
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