Thomas Reid

Background

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.

Education

Reid attended the University of Houston where he minored in Creative Writing. Reid graduated high school in 1985, and after a year at the University of Houston, he returned to the Dallas–Fort Worth area and changed his major to liberal arts

Career

Subsequently, he got a job at Wizards of the Coast writing AD&Doctorate books During his tenure there, he wrote many AD&Doctorate novels. 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.

While attending college at Utah Arlington he spent time playing Dungeons & Dragons again with all his old childhood friends.

Reid answered a TSR advertisement in the back of Dragon Magazine seeking professional editors, so he and Teresa moved to Delavan, Wisconsin, in the fall of 1991. Reid lived in Wisconsin for nearly six years, working initially as an editor and eventually being promoted to creative director at TSR, Incorporated.

When Wizards of the Coast purchased the company and relocated everyone to Washington, Reid and his family moved there too. During his ten years with the company, Reid had a hand in a variety of products and lines, including the core Doctorate&Doctorate,, Ravenloft, and Planescape lines, and the Star Wars and Wheel of Time RPGs.

Some of his personal favorite editing and design projects include Dragon Mountain, a trilogy of beholder adventures, Tale of the Comet, and the golem Angelique in Children of the Night: The Created.

In addition to gaming material, Reid has written a handful of Dragon Magazine articles and a pair of short stories that appear in anthologies. Reid is the author of more than a dozen short stories and novels, including Insurrection, the second book of the Resident Advisor Salvatore"s War of the Spider Queen series for the. He also wrote the novels Gridrunner for the Star*Drive setting and Temple of Elemental Evil for the setting.

They live on a quarter-acre cat ranch in the Texas Hill Country.

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. 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.

Works

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  • The Fractured Sky: The Empyrean Odyssey, Book II (Forgotten Realms)

    (What brings a demon to the gates of heaven? The half-f...)

  • The Gossamer Plain (Forgotten Realms: The Empryean Odyssey, Book 1)

    (Ever wonder what could bring a demon to the gates of heav...)

  • The Crystal Mountain: Empyrean Odyssey, Book III (The Empryean Odyssey)

    (What could bring heaven to the depths of hell? Aliisza...)

  • Shadowdale: The Scouring Of The Land (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying, Forgotten Realms Adventure)

    (Elminster's tower lies in ruins, and the town of Shadowda...)

  • Champions of Valor (Dungeon & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying, Forgotten Realms Setting)

    ( Everything a player needs to know to play truly heroic ...)

  • The Sapphire Crescent (Forgotten Realms: The Scions of Arrabar, Bk 1)

    ( The first in a new trilogy of Forgotten Realms novels f...)

  • The Emerald Scepter (The Scions of Arrabar)

    (The last in the trilogy of Forgotten Realms novels from T...)

  • The Ruby Guardian: The Scions of Arrabar, Book II

    ( The second in a trilogy of Forgotten Realms novels from...)

  • The Temple of Elemental Evil (Greyhawk Classics)

    ( A sinister force, long thought destroyed, stirs in the ...)

  • Insurrection (Forgotten Realms: R.A. Salvatore's War of the Spider Queen, Book 2)

    (The War of the Spider Queen spreads... A hand-picked tea...)

  • Mysteries of the Moonsea (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying, Forgotten Realms Supplement)

    (Mysteries of the Moonsea™ Thomas M. Reid Sean K Reynolds...)

  • The Sapphire Crescent/The Ruby Guardian/The Emerald Scepter

    (The Scions of Arrabar Trilogy)

  • The Gossamer Plain: The Empryean Odyssey, Book I (Forgotten Realms)
  • The Empyrean Odyssey Books 1-3: The Gossamer Plain, The Fractured Sky & The Crystal Mountain (Forgotten Realms)
  • The Crystal Mountain
  • The Crystal Mountain Publisher: Wizards of the Coast; Original edition
  • The Temple of Elemental Evil (Greyhawk Classics) by Thomas M. Reid (2001-05-01)
  • The Fractured Sky: The Empyrean Odyssey, Book II Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
  • The Gossamer Plain: The Empryean Odyssey, Book I (Forgotten Realms) by Thomas M. Reid (2007-05-15)