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Well, since one of my lifelong ambitions is to be riding in an absurdly large red convertible with Monte at the wheel, crusing through the desert near Barstow when the drugs start to kick in -- the worst that could happen would be that he'd be less likely to take me on such a ride if I went...

Just wanted to celebrate the fact that someone who isn't a Behemoth thinks we're not due to give up any time soon! This is from Berin Kinsman's review at UncleBear.com: Hopefully I haven't given the lie to the notion that we have class by tooting the Behemoth3 horn twice in the same thread!

What are the most famous or infamous legends about the history of roleplaying? What gaming industry snafus would you like to hear the inside dope about? I'm asking because I've volunteered to appear on a few panels on the "Industry Insider Seminar Track" at Gen Con SoCal. Some, like how to...

It sounds like you're a lot surer of what the restrictions in the license mean than I am. From the standpoint of someone who sees significant grey areas in both the provisions of the license and the way it's likely to be enforced, I appreciate companies & people who try different things, probe...

One of the creatures people most want to see covered in the Masters and Minions series seems to be the rot grub. Maybe just because the illustration in the 1E Monster Manual where the guy is staring, aghast, at his grub-infested arm is so memorable!

I'm interested in being part of the next chat: Todd/Warden mentioned it's the first Monday in December?

Behemoth3 definitely hasn't given up yet; heck, we've just gotten started! Technically, of course, we're an Open Game License publisher; each of our Masters and Minions books have rules for creating monstrous characters, which prevents us from using the d20STL. But, technicalities aside, we're...

In Chinese and Korean myth, hungry ghosts are perpetually ravenous but the only food that doesn't choke them is the water that a monk usese to wash his rice. In A Swarm of Stirges, the hollow husks are the result of an undead eating disorder. Hollow husks are as thin as it's possible to be -...

For my bachelor party, we ran a D&D game in which we each played the oldest character we could find. My brother's was from when he was so young that he could barely write; on the back he drew an elf, but it looks like a Santa elf, except that it's laden down with swords and other pointy things...

There are a cool race of stirge-riding fey, the ashmalkins, in A Swarm of Stirges, if I do say so myself, and a bunch of adventure hooks to go with 'em. Some things that would be a particularly good fit with your plans is that the ashmalkins are into alchemical devices and like gnomes (although...

For my Greyhawk game -- yes, but now that we're up in higher levels & interacting with gods more often, each successive revelation about their nature & origins moves the cosmology further and further away from the core! For the Masters and Minions series, we've used the core pantheon but...

D&D has always been an enormous, insanely complicated and self-contradictory constellation of house rules, variants, and individual approaches to the thing that we do on Friday nights. (Actually, it's Saturday for me, Psion!) The only difference now is that, with the Internet and the OGL...

I'm happy to say that every publisher I've approached about recommendations has been both happy to give permission and quite easy to track down by email. Recommending one another's work is like acknowledging the source of open content: everyone would love to do it, but Section 7 of the OGL makes...

One thing we've tried to do as the Masters and Minions series moves forward is to learn from the feedback we get from reviews. So when the esteemed Joe G. Kushner wrote in his review of Horde Book 2: Maze of the Minotaur: I realized we hadn't done enough to explain what this section was doing...

Behemoth3 plans to donate copies of both Masters and Minions books -- A Swarm of Stirges and Maze of the Minotaur -- as soon as they're back from the printer, probably next week! (I wrote to Alsih20 about this, but thought I'd post it here to *BUMP* the thread!)

That is the single coolest thing I've heard all day! Stross is one of the greatest new talents to hit SF in years -- who would have thought he also came up with an iconic D&D monster (kinda SFnal now that I think of it -- all those planar-travelling ships...)

I had another poll option that said "Even if I were being pursued by wild tigers I would never say anything other than 'Wizards of the Coast is a registered trademark of Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc.", but it was too long :)

A layperson? None. An astronaut? Plenty! Richard Garfinkle's Celestial Matters is a wicked cool exploration of space travel in a universe ruled by Ptolemaic terracentric astronomy. Highly recommended.

I was thinking about spoken conversation, but it does seem like there's a difference. Writing "WotC" feels pretty value-neutral and it definitely makes it clearer what you're referring to than "Wizards". Spoken aloud, it seems like I hear "wotcee" used in a derogatory way more often. Maybe...

I've noticed that people who are or have been employees of Wizards of the Coast always refer to it as "Wizards". Other people tend to say "WotC", usually pronounced to rhyme with "Nazi". Since picking up on this distinction, I find myself saying "Wizards" when I refer to the folks who make...