Thomas M. Reid

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Thomas M. Reid
Born (1966-12-23) December 23, 1966 (age 57)
Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.
Occupation
  • Author
  • game designer
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Houston
University of Texas at Arlington
University of Texas at Austin (BA)
GenreFantasy
Notable worksThe Temple of Elemental Evil (2001)
The Emerald Scepter (2005)
SpouseTeresa
Children3
ParentsTony Reid
Norma Reid

Thomas M. Reid (born December 23, 1966, in Fort Collins, Colorado[1]) is an American author and game designer who grew up in Arlington, Texas. Reid attended the University of Houston where he minored in Creative Writing. Subsequently, he got a job at Wizards of the Coast writing AD&D books. During his tenure there, he wrote many AD&D novels. After Wizards was bought out by Hasbro, Reid resigned and moved back to Texas along with his wife and three children where he continues his creative writing vocation.

Early life and education

Thomas M. Reid was born to Norma and Tony Reid in a snowstorm in the mountains of Fort Collins, Colorado, two days before the Christmas of 1966.[2] He spent the first two years of his life living in Colorado and Virginia before the family moved back to Texas, growing up in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.[2] Reid graduated high school in 1985, and after a year at the University of Houston, he returned to the DFW area and changed his major to liberal arts.[2] While attending college at UT Arlington he spent time playing Dungeons & Dragons again with all his old childhood friends.[2] Eventually, he came to Austin, where he met his wife Teresa and got a B.A. in history from the University of Texas in 1989.[2]

Career

Reid answered a

Star*Drive setting and Temple of Elemental Evil for the Greyhawk setting.[2]

Reid eventually returned to Texas, and lives in the greater Austin area with his wife and three kids—Aidan, Galen, and Quinton.[2] They live on a quarter-acre cat ranch in the Texas Hill Country.[3] Reid stays home and writes full-time now, but when he's not working, Reid loves to go hiking and camping, play with his kids, and root for the Rangers, Cowboys, Stars, and Texas Longhorns.[2] He also loves to play softball, indoor soccer, touch football, basketball, tennis, and golf in the daytime, and to game, read, write, and paint miniatures after dark.[2]

Novels

Greyhawk

Forgotten Realms

  • Insurrection
     (December 2002)
  • The Sapphire Crescent (November 2003)
  • The Ruby Guardian (November 2004)
  • The Emerald Scepter (August 2005)[5]
  • The Gossamer Plain (May 2007)
  • The Fractured Sky (November 2008)
  • The Crystal Mountain (July 2009)

References

  1. ^ "Bio « Thomas M. Reid". Archived from the original on 2017-04-06. Retrieved 2012-11-13.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Thomas M. Reid". Archived from the original on February 24, 2009.
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-1-932442-96-0
    .
  4. ^ D'Ammassa, Don (September 2001). "Greyhawk: The Temple of Elemental Evil", Science Fiction Chronicle 22 (9): 42–44.
  5. ^ D'Ammassa, Don (September 2006). "Whisper of Waves/Midnight's Mask/The Emerald Scepter/Guardian: Saviors of Kamizawa", Chronicle 28 (3): 66.

External links

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_M._Reid&oldid=1215139659"