Larry DiTillio

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Larry DiTillio is an American writer. He and Bob Forward were the story editors of the Beast Wars television series.

Writer

Beast Wars

• The Web
• Power Surge
• The Spark
• Spider's Game
• Other Voices, Part 1
• Other Voices, Part 2
• Aftermath
• Other Visits (Part 1)
• Other Visits (Part 2)
• Deep Metal
• Other Victories

Transformers Animated

• Predacons Rising

Participation in the Fandom

Early in Beast Wars' run, Mr. DiTillio (along with co-editor Bob Forward) began posting regularly to alt.toys.transformers, answering questions about the show and offering teaser bits of information about upcoming episodes. The pair would also post episode scripts after shows had aired, allowing the fandom further insight into the show's creative process.

Mr. DiTillio and Mr. Forward forged notable relationships with the fandom at large and several individuals within it, culminating in Ben Yee's name actually appearing in the credits of "The Agenda" as a consultant. Mr. DiTillio further credited the fandom as influencing the show's strong ties to the original Generation 1 continuity.

This unofficial relationship was not without its troubles, however. Of particular note was the debacle surrounding the script of the unproduced episode "Dark Glass", which resulted in Mainframe declaring a permanent moratorium on the release of episode scripts.

Both writers would appear as official guests at several BotCons.

Notes

• DiTillio has a long history of collaborating with J. Michael Straczynski. In the Straczynski-written Real Ghostbusters episode "Ragnarok and Roll", a character named "DiTillio" was the hunchbacked companion of a man who sought to destroy the world with a magic flute.
• DiTillio was interviewed as a special feature for Kid Rhino's Beast Wars The Complete First Season DVD set.
• He also featured on a "Soul of Beast Wars" interview with Bob Forward and Ben Yee on Madman Entertainment's Beast Wars season 2 box set.
• Among tabletop RPG fans, DiTillio is perhaps better known as the author of Masks of Nyarlathotep, a campaign book for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game, and widely considered to be one of the greatest RPG campaigns ever written.

External links

• Larry Mr. DiTillio's Google Groups profile, under ditillio@aol.com
• An early post to alt.toys.transformers