A Pathfinder Tales Collection by Paizo Publishing LLC.

I'll be back at 7:00 Central Time to answer questions. Cthulhu, and The Lion and the Aardvark.Įarlier this year devilishly persuasive Trent Oster lured me back into the world of video game writing, where I’m part of a small but fierce team producing Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition for the PC, Mac, iPad, and other platforms. I also had the great privilege and pleasure of co-writing Winter Witch with Elaine Cunningham, and I’ve written stories for Tales of the Far West, Shotguns v. All of those feature the investigator-adventurers Count Varian Jeggare and his bodyguard Radovan Virholt. Since then most of my fiction has been for Paizo, including several short stories, a couple of novellas, and the novels Prince of Wolves, Master of Devils, and the recent Queen of Thorns. At the 2008 World Fantasy Convention in Calgary, my old colleague Erik Mona enticed me back into writing fantasy fiction by telling me about Paizo’s plans to launch the Pathfinder Tales line of novels. One the side, I continued to write stories and novels whenever the opportunity arose, most prominently in the Sembia series. Through guile and patience (mostly patience) I moved through the ranks of various magazines at TSR, Wizards of the Coast, and Paizo Publishing: Dungeon, Dragon, Star Wars Insider &Gamer, and at last Amazing Stories. Now and then the TSR book department would post an open call for short story pitches, and I got my start writing for their anthologies. In 1993 I left a job teaching English at James Madison University to join TSR as Associate Editor of Polyhedron Newszine, the magazine of the Role Playing Gamer’s Association (RPGA). Before that I’d written a number of short stories, a novella, and a very short novel also set in the Realms. My first full-length novel was Black Wolf, set in the Forgotten Realms. The events of 'Bastard, Sword' occur after those of the web fiction ' A Tomb of Winter's Plunder', but before those of the novel, Liar's Blade.Hi, I’m Dave Gross. Index For an alphabetical listing of all the relevant terms in this story, please visit its Index. 'Bastard, Sword' features the following characters: Yet a talking sword may have goals of its own. Fortunately, Rodrick can still turn a profit-he just needs to slip past a slumbering linnorm, retrieve a talking sword with a wit as sharp as its blade, and return in one piece to his employer. The story was compiled and released in ebook format in October 2013.īetrayed by his companion and robbed of everything down to his boots, Rodrick wakes to find himself in the very tomb he meant to rob. ' Bastard, Sword', a short story by Tim Pratt, was released as Pathfinder Tales web fiction in March 2013 as a tie-in and scene-setter to Pratt's novel Liar's Blade, released the previous month.

For information about the weapon, see bastard sword. This article is about the Pathfinder Tales short story.

A Pathfinder Tales Collection by Paizo Publishing LLC.