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Thanks for the kind words, folks. They mean a great deal. And my wife was reading over my shoulder, and they cheered her up _immensely_. I can confirm the essential truth of what's been reported, and I am indeed one of the ones let go today. When you're in the midst of the process, you don't...

I've never been to Poland, but I know its basic city/road geography like the back of my hand. Heck, it would be easier for me to name cities on the way from Lodz to Krakow than it would be to name cities on the way from, say, Atlanta to Houston. Thank you, Twilight: 2000! (And the fact that...

XP budget is certainly how I'm doing adventure design right now. It's not completely rigorous, because an individual monster indeed gets "so easy that it ain't worth it" and "so hard that it ain't worth it." That window of "levels you can use this individual monster as a part of your encounter"...

If you take out "rapidly" and replace it with "incrementally and gradually" in both cases, I agree. But I'm curious: Why do you regard the falloff (on both the easy and hard side) as rapid? Why isn't it working out that way at my table? Why does the accuracy of the xp/monster mean "less...

Heck, more info? I can help with that. Boom! --Dave.

First, class of '88! Second... FOR THE HORDE! --Dave.

We kept 'em there until midnight, so I'll bet they went home and crashed. But I think everyone had a good time--and the London Dungeon is a fun place to play D&D, to be sure. Expect reports from them soon, I'd think. --Dave.

I think the "amp;" part of those URLs might be wrong. When I click on those links, I get no blog entries from me. But I put something up there pretty much every day. Weird. I'm staring at all my blog posts, though, when I use the same URL but omit the "amp;" I suppose as long as my mom can...

Wizards of the Coast, too. We're based here. --Dave.

OK, I admit it, you got me, Fathead...I actually went back through my blog entries, asking myself, "I didn't really cite the Babysitters Club, did I?" And that's a good idea, Olgar. I'll do a blog entry in the next few days about good nonfiction books for dudes who think about D&D a lot. --Dave.

It drives me a little bonkers that the vast majority of Eberron has far less population density than Mongolia. So I'm with you there. In my own game, I hand-wave it, but that works only because I'm the only guy who cares. --Dave.

Mike and I have recorded another podcast, but it hasn't "aired" yet. It's still being engineered. Yes, I wish we could crank them out faster. --Dave.

Really? You should read the whole blog entry. I've been ridiculously happy all day. As for the patronizing thing, well, that wasn't my intent. And it's embarrassing when you write for a living and can't get your point across properly. Sorry about that. Lemme try again: The game is coming out...

When's the next episode coming out? Good question. I don't know exactly. It usually takes a few days to do the engineering and postproduction stuff on the podcasts. We record them in one take, usually. But Mike swears like a sailor, and I have long digressions where I speak in a little girl...

Good questions, all. So good, in fact, that you should send them to dndfeedback@wizards.com. (I'll admit it: I'm not going to have time for a leisurely surf of the boards before we hit the studio tomorrow.) And one further note: We're going to prioritize questions about the 4e D&D game itself...

My cohost Mike Mearls and I are going to record the next episode of the D&D Podcast tomorrow afternoon, and we'd like to include a mailbag segment when we answer your questions about 4e. If you have a question you'd like answered, send it to dndfeedback@wizards.com. I know this is short notice...

Mike and I recorded a podcast last week that will air next week. It's a pretty weird podcast, though, because we knew everyone would know about 4e when they were listening, but it was still a big secret when we recorded it. I think we started it with something like, "Greetings, people of the...

Here's my perspective as a WotC guy. I think the moderators here do a fantastic job at keeping things civil--frankly that's why I've enjoyed coming here for years. (Almost exclusively lurking, but remember: I usually can't talk about what I'm working on.) I wouldn't worry about us being...

I'm going to take a shot at answering this one. But the question is both broad and tricky. So you may see me conjure up a big wall of text. Conversion? It'd be a quagmire...if you think of conversion as something essentially formulaic. The conversion document we did when 3.0 came out had a lot...

I'm in no position to address a wider "who said what about when" topic, but as for February's D&D Experience...well, I was standing there in the room. Lying? Not by a long shot. In February 2007, we said "long ways off." That's 15 to 17 months before the 4e core books would come out. By the...