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I'll take that bet.

Looking back at what I wrote, I can see how you might get that, but that's not what I actually wrote.

Hey guys. I thought I'd step in and answer some of the questions that I can. It's Dragon's exclusive thing to make the actual announcement, and so I can't really address that--I can say that it's a new PRODUCT announcement. It's got nothing to do with Wizards or movies or anything like that...

You know, this book looks really good. I'm personally looking forward to this book more than any other release from another company this year (not that I could actually use the adventures, since so many of the people who worked on it are in my game group).

I liked it, but then I'm a sucker for anything even remotely post-holocaust. (Technically, I guess Twilight 2000 is 'during holocaust'.) I played more Aftermath and Gamma World than this, but my high school friends and I had a fun Red Dawn-style game using the rules for a while. I'm going to...

What's the weather been like in Columbus lately? Hot?

Despite everyone with any business sense telling me that I should use "Monte Cook games" or something like that, I went the far geekier route and named our company after the D&D character I played when I was 15 years old. I was mainly going for that kind of nostalgic, love-of-the-game vibe. I...

Since I have no idea how public or private his contact info is, if you want to send me something, I'd be happy to forward it to Ryan. my first name (at sign) my full name (dot) com.

If there was a quality DM who needed to be paid for his time, and I could afford his rates, I'd pay. I pay for movies, books, comics, computer games and all other kinds of entertainment, but truth be told I like gaming more than any of them. In other words, if someone said to me, "you get $100...

Dave was a talented and interesting guy. I liked him, and wish I'd known him better. I'm very sorry to hear this.

In my campaign, they're called dragon rifles and dragon pistols because traditionally the barrel ends in a stylized dragon's head.

Yes. Yes, I am.

I love these things. We used them in my game just last night, to determine if the entire area of the cube of force (and the four PCs inside) was within the area of the dimensional rift of a chaositech void grenade (that had just detonated inside the horrifically powerful blasphemous mimic) or...

A fine, but misplaced worry. That is to say, in the 18 years I've been in the industry I can't think of one case where this was even remotely an issue. Every company I've worked at has had creatives of wildly different and fervently held political views, and it's never mattered one whit. I don't...

Mike finished his work on Iron Heroes (it's already at the printer!), Mastering Iron Heroes and Monsters of Iron Heroes (those last two are in development/editing). I know it seems weird, but we work way ahead of schedule. Mike worked with us for a full year, which was the term of his contract...

Not Ahriman. It was a reference to the Politics of Hell article in an old Dragon that talked about how Lucifer ruled Hell before Asmodeus. Much of that material is based on the "History of Hell" section of A Paladin in Hell, which itself is a marriage of Planescape and 1E planar information.

And that's no coincidence. Ability score damage was put into the game to give a reason for the numerical values. Although since you bring it up, I must admit that I love ability score damage and would indeed hate to see that kind of thing go in some other direction.

Yeah, if I was ever going to do something like that, I'd do it that way. A couple of words or values in a single other color. Not only can most colorblind people note the difference between the other color and black, but any more than that (or more than one second color) and you risk things...

Agreed! That's why the new stat block format is sooooo much better than the old one. With the old one, the AC, hit points, etc. just fall where they may in any given stat block, never in the same place in the "block." Again, I agree 100%. I've been tinkering with the same sorts of ideas...

Ketjak, Thanks. That's very interesting food for thought. I'm going to have to think about that some more. I'm not sure I'm convinced that a stat block is the equivalent of a user interface screen, but it's an interesting (and new, to me) way of looking at it. (If you break RPGs down to their...