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Okay guys! Thanks! I'll stop back in later in the day tomorrow and wrap things up. So if you've got questions, get them in now. And if you are interested in Numenera, whether you're a current player or someone who's just curious, please check out our current Kickstarter called Into the Ninth...

It all depends on what you mean by spreading your ideas around. If you mean submitting ideas to publishers, then yes, you're worrying too much. A real publisher wouldn't do that. Even if you don't want to believe in their good nature, it's simply not worth the time or trouble. If you get hired...

Concepts from Dark Space have creeped into my work here and there, but I don't currently have a plan to redo the book. Sadly, I couldn't bring myself to finish the new Thomas Covenant books. They just didn't appeal, as difficult as it is for me to admit that. I read Runes of the Earth and the...

I think any of those three systems would be really cool. I think the Cypher System Rulebook has a lot of horror-specific tools and mechanics that would make Masks pretty fun--specifically the Horror Mode mechanic. I've already begun mulling over the places I'd use that in Masks. Your idea of...

I did create her, in the Planewalker's Handbook. I wanted to have the voice of someone who had really been all over the multiverse--the quintessential Planescape character. She never had stats. I never wanted to stat her up because if she was meant to be the voice of knowledge, not someone you...

Awesome. Love to hear that. 1. Not a lot. By the time I'd written that book, I was in the middle of running my third Ptolus campaign, so I had a lot of material to draw on. Some of the stuff in the book, of course, never got the focus that it did in the book. You know how PCs are. Sometimes...

The beginning came about because I wanted to start things off with an adventure that seemed totally unrelated. I wanted the DM to be able to catch the players off-guard. We used to joke that every Planescape adventure could just start off with an old man that says "I'll give you 100 gp if you go...

Thanks for the kind words.

Sounds like a cool idea. Did you get the Dark Spiral? That has a lot of additional Estate info. Also, we did a fractal called the Estate Dossiers that was kind of nifty.

That's it for today! Thanks, everyone!

1. Never say never! We have no current plans, but a box like that for The Strange could happen if people wanted it. 2. What I'd do is premake characters for them (use the pretty pregens in the box you just got). The best way to jump in for the first time is by playing, not by making a...

1. I'm afraid I have almost no time to devote to serious consultation. I'm sorry. I do wish you luck! And if you have specific questions, well, I'm doing this AMA through this Friday. 2. Give away stuff for free. Write blog posts that get read and shared by a lot of people. Work on something...

Off the top of my head, Peter Gabriel-era Genesis, ELP, Transatlantic, Rush, Pink Floyd... there are probably others.

I'm glad you were inspired. I lost about 50 pounds about 4-5 years ago. Although I'll be honest, I'm struggling right now because I've gained a bit of that back just due to working too much (for me, working means sitting on my butt, so that makes it hard). I think realistic goals are the key...

1. First and foremost, I wanted Numenera (the Cypher System) to be low GM prep and yet really encourage GM's to create their own stuff. The way to do that, it seemed to me, was to create a system where the mechanical elements were very simple, and thus the GM could focus on the ideas behind the...

I never know how to answer that question. The truth is probably, that's just the way my mind works--lots of weird little ideas. It probably helps that ideas are what I value most in what I write, what I read, what I watch, and so on. Probably like a professional chef's relationship with food.

The guy behind that was Danny O'Neil. He knew all of us and contacted us. For me, it sounded fun, happened to fit into my schedule, and paid well, so I said yes. It was a long time in the making, though. I think I wrote my small part probably... 3 years ago? Maybe 2 years ago. A while, though...

Oh boy. I wrote that in... 1997 or so? It's hard for me to recall details. But what you state sounds right. The ship kind of does its own thing.

I suppose it's the same issue you run into in any agent/espionage game--how do you know who to trust? Fortunately, you have one thing on your side--the vast majority of people in Ardeyn, and probably even Ruk, have likely never heard of the Estate. Most of the time, if someone says they're from...

Glad you're having fun. I'm a huge comics fan, and I have been since I was young. I'm a fan of Brian K. Vaughan, Ed Brubaker, Kurt Busiek, Neil Gaiman, and many others. Right now I'm about halfway finished with a novel called The Waking Engine by David Edison. Before that I read City of Stairs...