Tracy Hickman - Revision history

http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Tracy_Hickman Tracy Hickman - Revision history 2026-05-08T03:04:50Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.0 http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tracy_Hickman&diff=509020&oldid=prev imported>Administrator: 10 revisions imported 2023-06-23T15:29:16Z

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imported>Administrator http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tracy_Hickman&diff=509008&oldid=prev 1d4chan>Zimriel at 04:28, 22 August 2021 2021-08-22T04:28:32Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:28, 22 August 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman's credits alongside his wife Laura include the I3-5 ''[[Desert of Desolation]]'' [pseudo-]series, Indian-influenced ''Rahasia'' which became one of the [[B7: Rahasia|best-received of the B series]], and ''[[Ravenloft]]''; with others especially Margaret Weis, ''[[Dragonlance]]''. He also wrote or co-wrote (often with Weis) many of the novelisations, as well as the ''Death Gate'' cycle and more... so much more.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman's credits alongside his wife Laura include the I3-5 ''[[Desert of Desolation]]'' [pseudo-]series, Indian-influenced ''Rahasia'' which became one of the [[B7: Rahasia|best-received of the B series]], and ''[[Ravenloft]]''; with others especially Margaret Weis, ''[[Dragonlance]]''. He also wrote or co-wrote (often with Weis) many of the novelisations, as well as the ''Death Gate'' cycle and more... so much more.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>That said, Hickman has his ups and downs. His early adventures, in the I3-5 line and in Dragonlance, tended to railroad the PCs. He also wasn't above using his modules to do ''da'wa'' on behalf of LDS dogma (those tablets in DL1 *cringe*); and he was consistently a colossal [[Fags_of_4chan|moralfag]]. To this end Hickman every now and again returns to comment on this hobby. He bashed [[Monte Cook]] for the ''[[Book of Vile Darkness]]'', claiming that it was giving air to the [[Satanic Panic]]. The complaint didn't go anywhere because [[derp|vile darkness is for ''bad guys'']].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>That said, Hickman has his ups and downs. His early adventures, in the I3-5 line and in Dragonlance, tended to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[railroading|</ins>railroad<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>the PCs. He also wasn't above using his modules to do ''da'wa'' on behalf of LDS dogma (those tablets in DL1 *cringe*); and he was consistently a colossal [[Fags_of_4chan|moralfag]]. To this end Hickman every now and again returns to comment on this hobby. He bashed [[Monte Cook]] for the ''[[Book of Vile Darkness]]'', claiming that it was giving air to the [[Satanic Panic]]. The complaint didn't go anywhere because [[derp|vile darkness is for ''bad guys'']].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman ''really'' dislikes "crossover" campaigns that cover multiple settings, and is on record as despising what ''Ravenloft'' has become because of this. Perhaps this paradox is nowhere better displayed than one of the most famous ''D&D'' villains of all time, the iconic [[Death Knight]] [[Lord Soth]], whom he created in ''Dragonlance'', hated when he came to ''Ravenloft'' to the point of having the death knight cameo in his novels almost specifically to fuck up continuity on that front, and ultimately killed off so no one could have him... but, you know, in a way that was still oddly consistent with Soth's character arc, so it could've hurt worse.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman ''really'' dislikes "crossover" campaigns that cover multiple settings, and is on record as despising what ''Ravenloft'' has become because of this. Perhaps this paradox is nowhere better displayed than one of the most famous ''D&D'' villains of all time, the iconic [[Death Knight]] [[Lord Soth]], whom he created in ''Dragonlance'', hated when he came to ''Ravenloft'' to the point of having the death knight cameo in his novels almost specifically to fuck up continuity on that front, and ultimately killed off so no one could have him... but, you know, in a way that was still oddly consistent with Soth's character arc, so it could've hurt worse.</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Zimriel http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tracy_Hickman&diff=509019&oldid=prev 1d4chan>Zimriel at 21:17, 26 June 2021 2021-06-26T21:17:33Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:17, 26 June 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman's credits alongside his wife Laura include the I3-5 ''[[Desert of Desolation]]'' [pseudo-]series, Indian-influenced ''Rahasia'' which became one of the [[B7: Rahasia|best-received of the B series]], and ''[[Ravenloft]]''; with others especially Margaret Weis, ''[[Dragonlance]]''. He also wrote or co-wrote (often with Weis) many of the novelisations, as well as the ''Death Gate'' cycle and more... so much more.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman's credits alongside his wife Laura include the I3-5 ''[[Desert of Desolation]]'' [pseudo-]series, Indian-influenced ''Rahasia'' which became one of the [[B7: Rahasia|best-received of the B series]], and ''[[Ravenloft]]''; with others especially Margaret Weis, ''[[Dragonlance]]''. He also wrote or co-wrote (often with Weis) many of the novelisations, as well as the ''Death Gate'' cycle and more... so much more.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>That said, Hickman has his ups and downs. His early adventures, in the I3-5 line and in Dragonlance, tended to railroad the PCs. He also wasn't above using his modules to do ''da'wa'' on behalf of LDS dogma (those tablets in DL1 *cringe*); and he was consistently a colossal [[moralfag]]. To this end Hickman every now and again returns to comment on this hobby. He bashed [[Monte Cook]] for the ''[[Book of Vile Darkness]]'', claiming that it was giving air to the [[Satanic Panic]]. The complaint didn't go anywhere because [[derp|vile darkness is for ''bad guys'']].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>That said, Hickman has his ups and downs. His early adventures, in the I3-5 line and in Dragonlance, tended to railroad the PCs. He also wasn't above using his modules to do ''da'wa'' on behalf of LDS dogma (those tablets in DL1 *cringe*); and he was consistently a colossal [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Fags_of_4chan|</ins>moralfag]]. To this end Hickman every now and again returns to comment on this hobby. He bashed [[Monte Cook]] for the ''[[Book of Vile Darkness]]'', claiming that it was giving air to the [[Satanic Panic]]. The complaint didn't go anywhere because [[derp|vile darkness is for ''bad guys'']].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman ''really'' dislikes "crossover" campaigns that cover multiple settings, and is on record as despising what ''Ravenloft'' has become because of this. Perhaps this paradox is nowhere better displayed than one of the most famous ''D&D'' villains of all time, the iconic [[Death Knight]] [[Lord Soth]], whom he created in ''Dragonlance'', hated when he came to ''Ravenloft'' to the point of having the death knight cameo in his novels almost specifically to fuck up continuity on that front, and ultimately killed off so no one could have him... but, you know, in a way that was still oddly consistent with Soth's character arc, so it could've hurt worse.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman ''really'' dislikes "crossover" campaigns that cover multiple settings, and is on record as despising what ''Ravenloft'' has become because of this. Perhaps this paradox is nowhere better displayed than one of the most famous ''D&D'' villains of all time, the iconic [[Death Knight]] [[Lord Soth]], whom he created in ''Dragonlance'', hated when he came to ''Ravenloft'' to the point of having the death knight cameo in his novels almost specifically to fuck up continuity on that front, and ultimately killed off so no one could have him... but, you know, in a way that was still oddly consistent with Soth's character arc, so it could've hurt worse.</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Zimriel http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tracy_Hickman&diff=509018&oldid=prev 1d4chan>Zimriel at 19:49, 14 December 2020 2020-12-14T19:49:51Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 19:49, 14 December 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''<strike>Sue</strike>Tracy Hickman''' is an author and sometime LDS missionary, and one of the major talents responsible for [[D&D]] as we know it. He is a great-grandchild of no less than that Danite, Wild Bill; who had turned around and totally blasted that Salt Lake caliph in his ''Brigham's Avenging Angel'' autobiography. Despite his gurly first name Tracy ain't exactly a little bitch himself.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''<strike>Sue</strike>Tracy <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Raye </ins>Hickman''' is an author and sometime LDS missionary, and one of the major talents responsible for [[D&D]] as we know it. He is a great-grandchild of no less than that Danite, Wild Bill; who had turned around and totally blasted that Salt Lake caliph in his ''Brigham's Avenging Angel'' autobiography. Despite his gurly first name Tracy ain't exactly a little bitch himself.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman did his missionising in Indonesia. His best work has infused Islamic, Indian, and - yes - Mormon themes to varying degrees of success. Mostly success.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman did his missionising in Indonesia. His best work has infused Islamic, Indian, and - yes - Mormon themes to varying degrees of success. Mostly success.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman's credits alongside his wife Laura include the I3-5 ''[[Desert of Desolation]]'' [pseudo-]series, Indian-influenced ''Rahasia'' which became one of the [[B7: Rahasia|best-received of the B series]], and ''[[Ravenloft]]''; with others especially Margaret Weis, ''[[Dragonlance]]''. He also wrote or co-wrote (often with Weis) many of the novelisations, as well as the ''Death Gate'' cycle and more... so much more.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman's credits alongside his wife Laura include the I3-5 ''[[Desert of Desolation]]'' [pseudo-]series, Indian-influenced ''Rahasia'' which became one of the [[B7: Rahasia|best-received of the B series]], and ''[[Ravenloft]]''; with others especially Margaret Weis, ''[[Dragonlance]]''. He also wrote or co-wrote (often with Weis) many of the novelisations, as well as the ''Death Gate'' cycle and more... so much more.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>That said, Hickman has his ups and downs. His early adventures, in the I3-5 line and in Dragonlance, tended to railroad the PCs. He also wasn't above using his modules to do ''da'wa'' on behalf of LDS dogma (those tablets in DL1 *cringe*); and he was consistently a colossal [[moralfag]]. To this end Hickman every now and again returns to comment on this hobby. He bashed [[Monte Cook]] for the ''[[Book of Vile Darkness]]'', claiming that it was giving air to the [[Satanic Panic]]. The complaint didn't go anywhere because <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">duhhh </del>vile darkness is for ''bad guys''.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>That said, Hickman has his ups and downs. His early adventures, in the I3-5 line and in Dragonlance, tended to railroad the PCs. He also wasn't above using his modules to do ''da'wa'' on behalf of LDS dogma (those tablets in DL1 *cringe*); and he was consistently a colossal [[moralfag]]. To this end Hickman every now and again returns to comment on this hobby. He bashed [[Monte Cook]] for the ''[[Book of Vile Darkness]]'', claiming that it was giving air to the [[Satanic Panic]]. The complaint didn't go anywhere because <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[derp|</ins>vile darkness is for ''bad guys''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman ''really'' dislikes "crossover" campaigns that cover multiple settings, and is on record as despising what ''Ravenloft'' has become because of this. Perhaps this paradox is nowhere better displayed than one of the most famous ''D&D'' villains of all time, the iconic [[Death Knight]] [[Lord Soth]], whom he created in ''Dragonlance'', hated when he came to ''Ravenloft'' to the point of having the death knight cameo in his novels almost specifically to fuck up continuity on that front, and ultimately killed off so no one could have him... but, you know, in a way that was still oddly consistent with Soth's character arc, so it could've hurt worse.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman ''really'' dislikes "crossover" campaigns that cover multiple settings, and is on record as despising what ''Ravenloft'' has become because of this. Perhaps this paradox is nowhere better displayed than one of the most famous ''D&D'' villains of all time, the iconic [[Death Knight]] [[Lord Soth]], whom he created in ''Dragonlance'', hated when he came to ''Ravenloft'' to the point of having the death knight cameo in his novels almost specifically to fuck up continuity on that front, and ultimately killed off so no one could have him... but, you know, in a way that was still oddly consistent with Soth's character arc, so it could've hurt worse.</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Zimriel http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tracy_Hickman&diff=509017&oldid=prev 1d4chan>Zimriel at 10:23, 11 December 2020 2020-12-11T10:23:47Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:23, 11 December 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman did his missionising in Indonesia. His best work has infused Islamic, Indian, and - yes - Mormon themes to varying degrees of success. Mostly success.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman did his missionising in Indonesia. His best work has infused Islamic, Indian, and - yes - Mormon themes to varying degrees of success. Mostly success.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman's credits alongside his wife Laura include the I3-5 ''[[Desert of Desolation]]'' series, Indian-influenced ''Rahasia'' which became one of the [[B7: Rahasia|best-received of the B series]], and ''[[Ravenloft]]''; with others especially Margaret Weis, ''[[Dragonlance]]''. He also wrote or co-wrote (often with Weis) many of the novelisations, as well as the ''Death Gate'' cycle and more... so much more.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman's credits alongside his wife Laura include the I3-5 ''[[Desert of Desolation]]'' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[pseudo-]</ins>series, Indian-influenced ''Rahasia'' which became one of the [[B7: Rahasia|best-received of the B series]], and ''[[Ravenloft]]''; with others especially Margaret Weis, ''[[Dragonlance]]''. He also wrote or co-wrote (often with Weis) many of the novelisations, as well as the ''Death Gate'' cycle and more... so much more.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>That said, Hickman has his ups and downs. His early adventures, in the I3-5 line and in Dragonlance, tended to railroad the PCs. He also wasn't above using his modules to do ''da'wa'' on behalf of LDS dogma (those tablets in DL1 *cringe*); and he was consistently a colossal [[moralfag]]. To this end Hickman every now and again returns to comment on this hobby. He bashed [[Monte Cook]] for the ''[[Book of Vile Darkness]]'', claiming that it was giving air to the [[Satanic Panic]]. The complaint didn't go anywhere because duhhh vile darkness is for ''bad guys''.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>That said, Hickman has his ups and downs. His early adventures, in the I3-5 line and in Dragonlance, tended to railroad the PCs. He also wasn't above using his modules to do ''da'wa'' on behalf of LDS dogma (those tablets in DL1 *cringe*); and he was consistently a colossal [[moralfag]]. To this end Hickman every now and again returns to comment on this hobby. He bashed [[Monte Cook]] for the ''[[Book of Vile Darkness]]'', claiming that it was giving air to the [[Satanic Panic]]. The complaint didn't go anywhere because duhhh vile darkness is for ''bad guys''.</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Zimriel http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tracy_Hickman&diff=509016&oldid=prev 1d4chan>Zimriel at 10:05, 11 December 2020 2020-12-11T10:05:20Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:05, 11 December 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman's credits alongside his wife Laura include the I3-5 ''[[Desert of Desolation]]'' series, Indian-influenced ''Rahasia'' which became one of the [[B7: Rahasia|best-received of the B series]], and ''[[Ravenloft]]''; with others especially Margaret Weis, ''[[Dragonlance]]''. He also wrote or co-wrote (often with Weis) many of the novelisations, as well as the ''Death Gate'' cycle and more... so much more.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman's credits alongside his wife Laura include the I3-5 ''[[Desert of Desolation]]'' series, Indian-influenced ''Rahasia'' which became one of the [[B7: Rahasia|best-received of the B series]], and ''[[Ravenloft]]''; with others especially Margaret Weis, ''[[Dragonlance]]''. He also wrote or co-wrote (often with Weis) many of the novelisations, as well as the ''Death Gate'' cycle and more... so much more.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>That said, Hickman has his ups and downs. His early adventures, in the I3-5 line and in Dragonlance, tended to railroad the PCs. He also wasn't above using his modules to do ''da'wa'' on behalf of LDS dogma (those tablets in DL1 *cringe*); and he was consistently a colossal [[moralfag]]. To this end Hickman every now and again returns to comment on this hobby. He bashed Monte Cook for the ''[[Book of Vile Darkness]]'', claiming that it was giving air to the [[Satanic Panic]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">moralfaggotry</del>. The complaint didn't go anywhere because duhhh vile darkness is for ''bad guys''.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>That said, Hickman has his ups and downs. His early adventures, in the I3-5 line and in Dragonlance, tended to railroad the PCs. He also wasn't above using his modules to do ''da'wa'' on behalf of LDS dogma (those tablets in DL1 *cringe*); and he was consistently a colossal [[moralfag]]. To this end Hickman every now and again returns to comment on this hobby. He bashed <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Monte Cook<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>for the ''[[Book of Vile Darkness]]'', claiming that it was giving air to the [[Satanic Panic]]. The complaint didn't go anywhere because duhhh vile darkness is for ''bad guys''.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman ''really'' dislikes "crossover" campaigns that cover multiple settings, and is on record as despising what ''Ravenloft'' has become because of this. Perhaps this paradox is nowhere better displayed than one of the most famous ''D&D'' villains of all time, the iconic [[Death Knight]] [[Lord Soth]], whom he created in ''Dragonlance'', hated when he came to ''Ravenloft'' to the point of having the death knight cameo in his novels almost specifically to fuck up continuity on that front, and ultimately killed off so no one could have him... but, you know, in a way that was still oddly consistent with Soth's character arc, so it could've hurt worse.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman ''really'' dislikes "crossover" campaigns that cover multiple settings, and is on record as despising what ''Ravenloft'' has become because of this. Perhaps this paradox is nowhere better displayed than one of the most famous ''D&D'' villains of all time, the iconic [[Death Knight]] [[Lord Soth]], whom he created in ''Dragonlance'', hated when he came to ''Ravenloft'' to the point of having the death knight cameo in his novels almost specifically to fuck up continuity on that front, and ultimately killed off so no one could have him... but, you know, in a way that was still oddly consistent with Soth's character arc, so it could've hurt worse.</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Zimriel http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tracy_Hickman&diff=509015&oldid=prev 1d4chan>Zimriel at 10:04, 11 December 2020 2020-12-11T10:04:22Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:04, 11 December 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman's credits alongside his wife Laura include the I3-5 ''[[Desert of Desolation]]'' series, Indian-influenced ''Rahasia'' which became one of the [[B7: Rahasia|best-received of the B series]], and ''[[Ravenloft]]''; with others especially Margaret Weis, ''[[Dragonlance]]''. He also wrote or co-wrote (often with Weis) many of the novelisations, as well as the ''Death Gate'' cycle and more... so much more.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman's credits alongside his wife Laura include the I3-5 ''[[Desert of Desolation]]'' series, Indian-influenced ''Rahasia'' which became one of the [[B7: Rahasia|best-received of the B series]], and ''[[Ravenloft]]''; with others especially Margaret Weis, ''[[Dragonlance]]''. He also wrote or co-wrote (often with Weis) many of the novelisations, as well as the ''Death Gate'' cycle and more... so much more.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>That said, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he </del>has his ups and downs. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> For one</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he </del>''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">really</del>'' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dislikes "crossover" campaigns that cover multiple settings, and is on record as despising what </del>''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ravenloft'' has become because </del>of this. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> Perhaps this paradox is nowhere better displayed than one of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most famous </del>''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">D&D</del>'' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">villains of all time</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">iconic </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Death Knight</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Lord Soth]], whom he created in </del>''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dragonlance</del>''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, hated when he came to ''Ravenloft'' to the point of having the death knight cameo in his novels almost specifically to fuck up continuity on that front, and ultimately killed off so no one could have him... but, you know, in a way that was still oddly consistent with Soth's character arc, so it could</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ve hurt worse</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>That said, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hickman </ins>has his ups and downs. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">His early adventures, in the I3-5 line and in Dragonlance</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tended to railroad the PCs. He also wasn</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">t above using his modules to do </ins>''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">da</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wa</ins>'' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on behalf </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">LDS dogma (those tablets in DL1 *cringe*); and he was consistently a colossal [[moralfag]]. To </ins>this <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">end Hickman every now and again returns to comment on this hobby</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He bashed Monte Cook for </ins>the ''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Book of Vile Darkness]]</ins>'', <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">claiming that it was giving air to </ins>the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Satanic Panic</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">moralfaggotry. The complaint didn</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">t go anywhere because duhhh vile darkness is for </ins>''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bad guys</ins>''.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">every now </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">again returns to comment </del>on this <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hobby</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He bashed Monte Cook for </del>the ''[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Book of Vile Darkness</del>]]'', <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">claiming that it was giving air </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the [[Satanic Panic]] moralfaggotry. The complaint didn</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">t go anywhere because duhhh vile darkness is for </del>''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bad guys</del>''.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''really'' dislikes "crossover" campaigns that cover multiple settings, </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is </ins>on <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">record as despising what ''Ravenloft'' has become because of </ins>this. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> Perhaps this paradox is nowhere better displayed than one of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most famous ''D&D</ins>'' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">villains of all time, the iconic </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Death Knight]] [[Lord Soth</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, whom he created in ''Dragonlance</ins>'', <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hated when he came </ins>to '<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'Ravenloft</ins>'' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to the point of having the death knight cameo in his novels almost specifically to fuck up continuity on that front, and ultimately killed off so no one could have him... but, you know, in a way that was still oddly consistent with Soth</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s character arc, so it could</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ve hurt worse</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In sum, kind of a big deal.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In sum, kind of a big deal.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Writers]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]] [[Category:Game Designers]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Writers]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]] [[Category:Game Designers]]</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Zimriel http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tracy_Hickman&diff=509014&oldid=prev 1d4chan>Zimriel at 00:07, 22 November 2020 2020-11-22T00:07:37Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 00:07, 22 November 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman did his missionising in Indonesia. His best work has infused Islamic, Indian, and - yes - Mormon themes to varying degrees of success. Mostly success.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman did his missionising in Indonesia. His best work has infused Islamic, Indian, and - yes - Mormon themes to varying degrees of success. Mostly success.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman's credits include the I3-5 ''[[Desert of Desolation]]'' series, Indian-influenced ''Rahasia'' which became one of the [[B7: Rahasia|best-received of the B series]], ''[[Ravenloft]]'', <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>''[[Dragonlance]]''. He also wrote or co-wrote (often with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Margaret </del>Weis) many of the novelisations.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman's credits <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">alongside his wife Laura </ins>include the I3-5 ''[[Desert of Desolation]]'' series, Indian-influenced ''Rahasia'' which became one of the [[B7: Rahasia|best-received of the B series]], <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>''[[Ravenloft]]''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; with others especially Margaret Weis</ins>, ''[[Dragonlance]]''. He also wrote or co-wrote (often with Weis) many of the novelisations<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, as well as the ''Death Gate'' cycle and more... so much more</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>That said, he has his ups and downs. For one, he ''really'' dislikes "crossover" campaigns that cover multiple settings, and is on record as despising what ''Ravenloft'' has become because of this. Perhaps this paradox is nowhere better displayed than one of the most famous ''D&D'' villains of all time, the iconic [[Death Knight]] [[Lord Soth]], whom he created in ''Dragonlance'', hated when he came to ''Ravenloft'' to the point of having the death knight cameo in his novels almost specifically to fuck up continuity on that front, and ultimately killed off so no one could have him... but, you know, in a way that was still oddly consistent with Soth's character arc, so it could've hurt worse.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>That said, he has his ups and downs. For one, he ''really'' dislikes "crossover" campaigns that cover multiple settings, and is on record as despising what ''Ravenloft'' has become because of this. Perhaps this paradox is nowhere better displayed than one of the most famous ''D&D'' villains of all time, the iconic [[Death Knight]] [[Lord Soth]], whom he created in ''Dragonlance'', hated when he came to ''Ravenloft'' to the point of having the death knight cameo in his novels almost specifically to fuck up continuity on that front, and ultimately killed off so no one could have him... but, you know, in a way that was still oddly consistent with Soth's character arc, so it could've hurt worse.</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Zimriel http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Tracy_Hickman&diff=509013&oldid=prev 1d4chan>Zimriel at 23:30, 21 November 2020 2020-11-21T23:30:42Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:30, 21 November 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Tracy Hickman''' is an author and sometime LDS missionary, and one of the major talents responsible for [[D&D]] as we know it. He is a great-grandchild of no less than that Danite, Wild Bill; who had turned around and totally blasted that Salt Lake caliph in his ''Brigham's Avenging Angel'' autobiography. Despite his gurly first name Tracy ain't exactly a little bitch himself.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><strike>Sue</strike></ins>Tracy Hickman''' is an author and sometime LDS missionary, and one of the major talents responsible for [[D&D]] as we know it. He is a great-grandchild of no less than that Danite, Wild Bill; who had turned around and totally blasted that Salt Lake caliph in his ''Brigham's Avenging Angel'' autobiography. Despite his gurly first name Tracy ain't exactly a little bitch himself.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman did his missionising in Indonesia. His best work has infused Islamic, Indian, and - yes - Mormon themes to varying degrees of success. Mostly success.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hickman did his missionising in Indonesia. His best work has infused Islamic, Indian, and - yes - Mormon themes to varying degrees of success. Mostly success.</div></td></tr> </table>

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