1. Troy Denning is an American fantasy and science fiction author and game designer who has written more than two dozen novels.
13 Facts About Troy Denning
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Heartened, Troy Denning continued to write as he attended Beloit College, where he played on their Division I football team.
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Troy Denning joined TSR as a game designer in 1981, and was promoted a year later to Manager of Designers, before he moved to the book department.
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Troy Denning then worked for two years managing the Pacesetter game company.
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Troy Denning designed the adventure board game Chill: Black Morn Manor for Pacesetter.
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Troy Denning wrote the third novel in TSRs "Avatar Trilogy", Waterdeep, which he wrote under the house pseudonym Richard Awlinson; the book became a New York Times bestselling novel.
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Troy Denning wrote the novel with Scott Ciencin, and the choice of the surname Awlinson was an inside joke which sounds like "all in one".
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Troy Denning returned to freelance writing again in 1991, writing the bestselling "Prism Pentad" for the Dark Sun setting, and the Forgotten Realms "Twilight Giants" trilogy.
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Troy Denning then authored another Forgotten Realms novel called Faces of Deception.
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Troy Denning is the author of a number of Star Wars expanded universe novels.
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Troy Denning authored the third and sixth books in the series.
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Troy Denning has been the author for three books in the Fate of the Jedi series.
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Troy Denning was one of the founders of Pacesetter Ltd, a game company formed by a group of former TSR, Inc executives.