[2]: 421 Hicks had also been running LARPs at AmberCon NorthWest with his friends Lydia Leong, Rob Donoghue, and others starting in 1999, and they came up with the name Evil Hat for themselves.
[2]: 423 Hicks and Donoghue joined with Chris Hanrahan and Justin D. Jacobson to form the company One Bad Egg in 2008 to publish PDFs for Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition.
[2]: 425 Brennan Taylor of Indie Press Revolution hired Hicks as a part-time member of the staff; Ron Edwards felt that this move made IPR less friendly to small press publishers it was intended to serve, so Edwards left IPR.
In 2024, Hicks began development on a Tomb Raider tabletop role-playing game for Evil Hat.
In an interview with Charlie Hall for Polygon, Hicks compared the game to Evil Hat's previous licensed products:We have this really curious thing at Evil Hat where generally anything licensed that we’ve done [...] the licensors have sought us out [...] This was true with The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game that was the inception of the company in the first place.