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Lawrence schick6/5/2023 ![]() RPGs combined my interest in storytelling with my interest in games, and we put a lot of time and design effort into D&D when we should have been going to class at Kent State University. LAWRENCE SCHICK – I started in the early days as a player of original or “white box” D&D, co-creating a fantasy campaign world with my friend Tom Moldvay in northeast Ohio in the U.S.A. Let´s start this way: did you ever liked RPGs or how did you first become involved in it? Schick, thank you for your life’s work on behalf of the world of classic games and role playing games. Recognized as “lead loremaster” in the world of RPGs he has vast experience in rich and multicultural universes and agreed to share a bit of his wisdom with Sidequest readers. He now works in Ireland at Larian Studios as a Narrative Design Expert on Baldur’s Gate 3. If you’ve played any of that old systems, table tops board games Dungeon & Dragons or modern games as Elder Scrolls and Kingdoms of Amalur, then you had a lot of fun immersed in one of the complex and astonishing stories he designed. We´re talking about Sir Lawrence Schick, brilliant writer and author of an extensive list of background books for several of his historical computer games and close to 200 in-game books around The Elder Scrolls universe. In 2007 Schick returned to role-playing games as one of the early designers on what would become “Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning”. He then put his extensive experience with online games to service at ZeniMax Online Studios where he served as Loremaster on The Elder Scrolls Online MMO RPG. Kingdoms of Amalur and Elder Scrolls Online for modern consoles? Yes! The list of his works are endless and touched the born of internet as a responsible for America Online Games Channel and executive producer at Magnet Interactive Studios for the development of CD-ROM titles. Do and Venture for consoles, also Sword of The Samurai for IBM PC and even the classic Icebreaker for the 3DO Multimedia System. In the early 80´s he started working as a game designer and project manager for video and computer game companies, a period that included high-profile positions at Coleco and MicroProse.ĭid you play Smurf: Rescue in Atari 2600? Tarzan or Dukes of Hazzard in your ColecoVision? Airborne Ranger in your C-64 computer? Yes all are his original masterwork. He began his career as writer at a company named TSR Hobbies in late 70´s and got involved in the development and early popularity of the role-playing game named Dungeons & Dragons that become a bestselling worldwide. ![]()
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