Lawrence Schick

Lawrence Schick is an American game designer and writer

Career 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. 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).

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. The following year, he coauthored the TSR science fiction RPG Star Frontiers with David "Zeb" Cook. Schick wrote the book Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games, which was published in 1991.

Schick has written many other games during his career. Schick is a former executive with America Online. He has also been working on writing a mobile game for WarDucks in Dublin, Ireland. Since 2021, he has worked at Larian Studios' Dublin office as a Principal Narrative Designer for role playing video game Baldur's Gate 3. Schick and the other Baldur's Gate 3 writers won the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing.

The Musketeers Cycle Under the pseudonym Lawrence Ellsworth, Schick began translating The Red Sphinx, Alexander Dumas's late-career sequel to The Three Musketeers. He continued his work with The 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:

Book One, The Three Musketeers Book Two, The Red Sphinx Book Three, Twenty Years After (volume one of Vingt Ans Après) Book Four, Blood Royal (volume two of Vingt Ans Après) Book Five, Between Two Kings (volume one of Le Vicomte de Bragelonne) Book Six, Court of Daggers (volume two of Le Vicomte de Bragelonne) Book Seven, Devil’s Dance (volume three of Le Vicomte de Bragelonne) Book Eight, Shadow of the Bastille (volume four of Le Vicomte de Bragelonne) Book Nine, The Man in the Iron Mask (volume five of Le Vicomte de Bragelonne)