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20-600: Tatooine Ghost is a novel by Troy Denning set in the fictional Star Wars expanded universe . The book was released on March 1, 2003. The deaths of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine , and victory at the Battle of Endor by no means spelled the end of the Empire. In the aftermath, the New Republic has faced a constant struggle to survive and grow. And now a new threat looms: a masterpiece of Alderaanian art, lost in transit after

40-536: A desperate race to reclaim it before Imperial troops or a band of unsavory treasure-peddlers get there first. Dangerous as the chase is, for Leia it leads into especially dark territory. Already haunted by the specter of her infamous father , and fearful that his evil may infect future generations, she has suffered a disturbing Force vision of Luke turning to the dark side . As she battles beside Han against marauding TIE fighters , encroaching stormtroopers , and Tatooine's savage Tusken Raiders , Leia's struggle with

60-661: A form of tae-kwan-do incorporating judo , boxing, and hapki-do . (listed in order of publication) (listed in order of publication) (listed in order of publication) (listed in order of publication) Pacesetter Ltd Pacesetter Ltd was a game company based in Delavan , Wisconsin , founded in 1984. Company founders included CEO John Rickets, and Mark Acres , Andria Hayday , Gaye Goldsberry O'Keefe , Gali Sanchez, Garry Spiegle , Carl Smith , Stephen D. Sullivan and Michael Williams . Pacesetter produced both tabletop role-playing games and board games . Chill

80-490: A signature and a handwritten note thanking him for the submission. Heartened, Denning continued to write as he attended Beloit College , where he also played on their Division I football team . 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. Denning then worked for two years managing the Pacesetter game company. Denning designed

100-524: Is that the Alderaanian moss-painting Killik Twilight was stolen. The painting contains a Rebel code vital to the New Republic's survival, and Han Solo, Chewbacca , C-3PO , and Princess Leia are then sent to retrieve it at an art auction. On the way, Leia finds out some startling things about the past of the Skywalker family when she finds the diary of her grandmother, Shmi . Tatooine Ghost reached #8 on

120-493: The New York Times bestseller list on March 23, 2003. Troy Denning Denning grew up in the mountain town of Idaho Springs, Colorado . An avid reader of science fiction and fantasy, he began writing himself at the age of fourteen in 80-page spiral-bound notebooks, and began to collect the usual quantity of rejection slips . Around his eighteenth birthday, he received a rejection slip from editor Ben Bova , but one with

140-455: The auction . But trouble is waiting when they arrive: an Imperial Star Destroyer is orbiting Tatooine on the lookout for Rebels; a mysterious stranger at the auction seems to recognize Leia; and an Imperial officer's aggressive bidding for the Alderaanian painting could foil the Solos’ mission. When a dispute erupts into violence, and the painting vanishes in the chaos, Han and Leia are thrust into

160-538: The Dark Sun project, with fiction editor Kirchoff, and artist Brom joined them soon with illustrations that helped make Dark Sun the first of TSR's world designs with a more artistic sensibility. According to Denning, the three designers envisioned "a world for experienced DMs that would push the AD&;D game to its limits and let people do things like play half-giants and thri-kreen and superstrong characters—in short, all

180-467: The Lady of Pain’s viewpoint—which is something of a problem, since (as every Planescape player knows) she never speaks—and (this was the really good part) the reader must know less about her at the end of the book than he does at the beginning, and nobody knows anything about her at the beginning." Denning recalled that Pages of Pain "really made me rethink the way I approach stories, and for that reason alone it

200-430: The adventure board game Chill: Black Morn Manor (1985) for Pacesetter. When Mayfair Games acquired ownership of the horror game Chill from Pacesetter, Denning also moved to Mayfair at that time; Denning worked on the line with Mayfair staffers David Ladyman , Jeff Leason and Louis Prosperi, to create a second edition of Chill (1990). After his stint at Mayfair Games, Denning went freelance. Denning wrote

220-574: The game." Brown and Denning also designed the 1991 D&D "black box" set, which became a top-seller for TSR, with half a million copies sold over the following six years. Denning returned to freelance writing again in 1991, writing the bestselling "Prism Pentad" for the Dark Sun setting (1991–93), and the Forgotten Realms "Twilight Giants" trilogy (1994–95). Denning also wrote the Planescape hardcover Pages of Pain (1996): "It had to be from

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240-991: The ninth and final book in the Legacy of the Force series, was released in May 2008. He also authored the third and sixth books in the series. He has also been the author for three books in the Fate of the Jedi series. And the 9th book in The New Jedi Order : Star by Star and the Dark Nest Trilogy . Troy was one of the founders of Pacesetter Ltd , a game company formed by a group of former TSR, Inc. executives. Denning lives in Lake Geneva , Wisconsin with his wife Andria. He enjoys many hobbies, including skiing, hiking, mountain-climbing, and Kyuki-do --

260-474: The novel Crucible: The Trial of Cyric the Mad . Denning then authored another Forgotten Realms novel called Faces of Deception . Denning's other notable works are Dragonwall and The Parched Sea . Denning wrote the novel The Sentinel for The Sundering , a fictional event set in the expanded D&D universe. He is also the author of a number of Star Wars expanded universe novels. Including Invincible ,

280-488: The planet's destruction, has resurfaced on the black market . Offered at auction, it will command a handsome price . . . but its greatest value lies in the vital secret it conceals—the key to a code used to communicate with New Republic agents deep undercover within the Empire. Discovery of the key by Imperial forces would spell certain disaster. The only option is recovery—and Han Solo , Leia Organa Solo , Chewbacca , and C-3PO have been dispatched to Tatooine to infiltrate

300-438: The really neat stuff we wanted to do ourselves, but that everybody kept saying would ruin game balance." Denning felt in 1998 that Dark Sun "did what we wanted it to, and it has attracted a devoted following. When I go to conventions, it's still what people want to talk about. Talking Brom into being the lead artist early was very fortunate for us; he would sketch weird creatures and settings and equipment, and we'd work them into

320-570: The right to create and publish "Chill" (3rd edition) Star Ace is owned by Phillip Reed and Christopher Shy of Ronin Arts . Timemaster and Sandman are owned by Daniel Proctor of Goblinoid Games (publisher of Labyrinth Lord , among other games). Goblinoid Games also purchased the copyrights and trademarks to the Pacesetter brand and logo, thus reviving the brand and folding it into their product lines. Goblinoid Games continues to publish games using

340-567: The third novel in TSRs "Avatar Trilogy", Waterdeep (1989), which he wrote under the house pseudonym Richard Awlinson ; the book became a New York Times bestselling novel. He wrote the novel with Scott Ciencin , and the choice of the surname Awlinson was an inside joke which sounds like "all in one". In October 1989 he rejoined TSR as a senior designer, co-creating the Dark Sun setting with Tim Brown and Mary Kirchoff . Denning and Brown led

360-549: The warring emotions inside her culminates in the discovery of an extraordinary link to the past. And as long-buried secrets and truths at last emerge, she faces a moment of reckoning that will forever alter her destiny . . . and that of the New Republic. The action takes place four years after the events of Return of the Jedi and directly follows the Star Wars expanded universe book The Courtship of Princess Leia . Han Solo and Princess Leia are recently married. The plot outline

380-455: Was possibly Pacesetter's most well-known product. It was subsequently republished in revised form by Mayfair Games after Pacesetter's demise. When the company 54°40' Orphyte was founded in 1991, they purchased many of the product rights to Pacesetter's games and all of its backstock. Chill is owned by Martin Caron. In October 2014, it was announced that Martin Caron had granted Matthew McFarland

400-462: Was worth writing. It also ended up being a much deeper book than I had ever written before, which I think was a result of the extreme approach I was forced to take. Those who have [read it] seem to think it's my best work. It was certainly the most challenging and—forgive the pun—'painful' to write." Denning continued the story told in Waterdeep' s sequel, Prince of Lies (1993) by James Lowder , with

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