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That's great news - congratulations! I've tried not to speak for the others on the So Cal panel, and merely present my impressions of what was said, but nevertheless I think that these are facts we all would have been glad to have. Thanks for sharing them, and I hope this returns some holiday...

Well, the interesting thing to me is, why don't people want to believe in fun things? It definitely wasn't the case that folks on the panel were saying that "ten years from now, the new rules-light story-driven system I'm cooking up will have revitalized the industry and brought in hordes of...

Agreed: even if it's difficult to get accurate data on the sales of rpg products, it's even harder to get a sense for how many gamers are still happily mining goodness from the core RPG books they bought years ago and not showing up in stores, online, at conventions, etc. to be counted. And if...

Okay, my son's in bed now! Here was the seminar & its panelists as scheduled: However, there were several more of us up there than listed here; definitely Kenneth Hite and James Ernst, and maybe some others I'm not remembering - it was a crowded panel! The overall impression I expect people...

Having been on that panel at SoCal, I'm living proof that Mike does not lie! :p At the end of the seminar, someone asked what each of us thought we'd be doing in 10 years. Afterwards, I started thinking: that's 2014, an absurdly futuristic date. If you'd asked me in 1994 what I'd be doing in...

At Gen Con Indy, players first met the monsters of Masters and Minions, and the survivors learned never to take these classic creatures for granted again. At So Cal, you'll be able to to turn the tables on us. We'll be the hapless heroes, and you can play the monsters we designed to strike fear...

Yeah, that's a great way to do a PDF release! Looking forward to it - and glad to see Crothian's review of your Halloween "oldie but goodie" the other day.

One of the adventure seeds in A Swarm of Stirges has an ashmalkin (Unseelie stirge-riding fey) necromancer building an army in the Plane of Shadow version of a city, ready to slip them across the boundary into the material plane & destroy the city (to fulfill a bargain he's made with an evil...

I think the probem with the original analogy is that D&D is a genre of art, like punk or dada, not a work of art. In each case, a bunch of guys (in Wisconsin, London, or Paris) get together and do something no one has ever done before. Then some of them give the new thing a name and publish a...

Looks like Expeditious Retreat Press is working on just what you need!

Inner Circle has actually been around as long as 3E! I was surprised to learn this as well - I thought they were hot young turks. Everything else Bret says is true, though - as one monster-maker to another, I have nothing but respect for these guys and I wish they were better known.

One relevant idea we're trying with the Masters and Minions books is a print-and-PDF package: when you buy the professionally printed book, you get the PDF for free. For the print edition, economies of scale mean that our printing cost per page is quite small due to the large print run, and...

I agree with Zweischneid - if your entire party has invested in being able to fly, you deserve to be able to triumph over some kinds of monsters. The only problems would be 1- if you designed a monster that could only be defeated by characters with a certain ability (flying) and its CR was too...

Brian (same guy who wrote Maze of the Minotaur) and I have a long-running campaign we play by phone; obviously, he's the only player. I find it to be an incredibly rich and fulfilling way to game. What it loses in group dynamics, it makes up in the ability to exactly customize the campaign to...

Thanks, everyone! Hairy Minotaur's story hour is fine indeed, always fun and surprising. I wish he was my DM. Instead, I'm the DM for Brian, who wrote the minotaur book: your player's hate mail should go to him! You're right that the remorhaz emits heat through its back, Joe (although it...

Here's bad news for adventurers in the frozen lands, good news for fans of the Masters and Minions series "dedicated to bringing new life to a D&D monster with roots all the way back to the original, 1st Edition Monster Manual" (John Cooper, EN World). For better or worse, Horde Book 3: Rage...

We're thinking about including an infravision spell & magical effect in Rage of the Remorhaz, largely because it'd be cool for someone using infravision to be blinded by the intense heat surging from an angry 'haz. Here are the general questions: - I remember reading an online essay by one of...

We had a thread about who might be going to SoCal, but I think it's time for a who is going thread! Behemoth3 will be there at booth 631 - right across from NC Soft/City of Heroes, and facing the Star Wars pavilion. We'll be handing out monster cards for Rage of the Remorhaz, running a...

I won't pimp my own PDFs -- that's what my sig is for! :D But one of the things in 'em is a Behemoth3 Recommends section. Some of the PDFs mentioned in it have been: Book of Templates Deluxe by Silverthorne. Everyone likes it for a reason! Campaign Options: Mazes by Emerald Press. If you...