Todd Steven Luikart (born 1971) is an American fantasy author, poet and

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designer.

Personal life

TS Luikart was born in San Diego, California in 1971. He attended the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California syste ...

, graduating with a

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in Literature in 1994.

Career

Roleplaying games

Game design work by Luikart for Green Ronin includes ''Red Star Campaign Setting'', ''Skull & Bones'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. In 2015, Luikart joined the creative team of

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. Among Luikart's oeuvre are the following games which he has either designed or contributed writing to: From

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, for the 2nd edition of the ''

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'' game; * Realms of Sorcery * Old World Bestiary * Terror in Talabheim From

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, for the d20 system; * Skull and Bones * The Red Star Campaign Setting * Nocturnals: A Midnight Companion for the Mutants and Masterminds game system. For Cubicle 7: Luikart contributed to much of The One Ring Roleplaying Game and was one of the lead designers of The Adventures in Middle-Earth Roleplaying Game. TS helped design the 4th edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying, working on multiple titles of the line. TS is said to be one of the lead designers of the Warhammer Age of Sigmar Roleplaying Game, Soulbound, along with the 40K RPG Wrath & Glory, and the forth coming Imperial Maledictum. Luikart also worked on the Underworld game, which is no longer in publication.

Poet and writer

His interests are primarily in the fantasy and science fiction genres in his larger works of fiction, though he is not limited to these genres. He has also been known to write poetry on a wide range of subjects. He has included a number of short stories in his RPG work (see links above) as well as publishing some short work online. He has additionally done some writing on the theory of roleplaying in Daedalus, an online journal.

Honors

Luikart was selected as an Industry Insider Guest of Honor for

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in 2012 alongside Gareth-Michael Skarka.

References

External links

T. S. Luikart :: Pen & Paper RPG Databasearchive
{{DEFAULTSORT:Luikart, T. S. 1971 births Living people Poets from California Role-playing game designers University of California, Santa Cruz alumni Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game designers Writers from San Diego