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Heh. "TSR" and "study" are two words that don't go very well next to each other. I imagine this "study" went like this: Exec #1: Do you think that an author's name is important in sales? Exec #2: It better not be. If it did, we'd have to show those guys in the back some respect and give them...

Well, wherever it came from, it made me laugh.

Funny cartoon, but your subject line was even funnier.

Feel free to email me with questions or whatever for either Bill or Ray and I'll pass them along.

The old Wizards' offices were in a four-building complex, with each building forming a side to a large square. In the middle was a very shallow pool that was named "the Mana Pool."

Wow. That is so well put. If I used quote for my sig file, that would be it. (And yes, I can confirm with Phil is saying--I know d20 publishers that don't like d20 as well.)

I know that I've never really liked d20. I think it was designed by a bunch of hacks.

Just like the cartoon in an old issue of Dragon, my 1E group had clerics running around with lucern hammers, not realizing they were pole arms. Similarly, after seeing the movie Krull, we thought that the glaive was a throwing weapon, not a pole arm. (After finding out the truth of the latter...

I say yes, whether you're going to run the adventures as is, or not. A big adventure like Shackled City has all different kinds of encounters, encounter areas, and NPCs. Even if you don't want to run the adventures, you can use it simply as a resource. For example, if you need a wizard NPC...

It will have complete conversion notes for AE on the CDROM included with the book.

Cool! I hope you like it when it finally gets here. And there'll be a new adventure log coming this week regarding the latest campaign.

Well, as others have said, when it comes to money, there's the game industry, and there's WotC. I'll agree that you're right that it's difficult, but certainly not at all impossible, to make 35K, or even 70K or more, in the game industry outside WotC. But we were talking about WotC. I made...

What's respectable/above the median in this context?

Those aren't sibeccai. They're goat-headed demons. Of the AE races, only litorians are in Ptolus (where they started), presented as a d20 race (with an ECL).

I also believe it's due to the group. The best game in the world isn't going to go on for very long without the right DM and players. All other things being equal, though, there are two things (I believe) that makes D&D well-suited for long-term play. 1. Levels. This is ironic, of course...

Yep. There's a scene from LOM that is burned forever in my mind: After much mind-switching has occurred, Ray Vallese's character's mind has just been shifted back into the body of a roper that he had previously inhabited. After leaving the body of the roper and returning to his own body, he...

That would be very cool to see. Yeah, the point of this adventure was to create something that if you were able to finish it, really finish it, it would be something you could brag about for your gaming career. I only know of one group that's done it without fudging in some way. (And that...

"% in liar" is a typo right out of OD&D, Monsters and Treasures. Ray Winninger has a great story about a campaign he played in in the old days that used % in Liar as the % chance that anything the creature says is a lie. However, that went for NPCs, too. Elves had a 25% chance, so the elf...

For what it's worth, in my time at TSR, things never worked this way. If there were 16 staff members, they were all working on individual projects, or in small teams of two or rarely, three. TSR did a lot of boneheaded things (and did indeed get driven into the ground) but the process of how...

Plus, a baby killed his dad.