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Smartass. I'm not allowed to give a fellow writer a good-natured ribbing without it blowing up in my face.

Let's not all start panicking just yet, shall we?

For the record: any piece of lore or continuity that goes into the Star Wars universe, such as info from comics, books, novels, video games, etc. becomes part of the collective whole. Any licensee can draw upon any part of the collective whole (though prior to Episode III there were some things...

Yep, as Gary Sarli already confirmed, the product's real. It was written by Owen K.C. Stephens and myself, and I think the release date on Amazon is correct. Now let's just hope they announce some details at GenCon so I can talk about the book!

That's not the only non-core mechanic you'll see supported in Dragon Magic.

I actually think taking this philosophy makes me like the demon lords MORE than having them be near-deities. The reason: if the other demons are nipping at their heels, that means they must be both cunning and tenacious in order to maintain control over tough competitors for that long. Sort of a...

Heck, as a designer, I like this change. There are many times that designers have a certain philosophy or goal in mind that isn't always apparent in the final product. De-mystifying the process should help get those original intents through more clearly.

Eh, I was a little disappointed in the selection of games overall this year, and for some reason I missed out on getting in to some events that I wanted to get into (like Ptolus). Last year I had a full plate of games, this year I didn't find anything that lit my fire. Pickup games ftw.

I've actually added two new adventures to the path in order to get some characters caught up on XP. Having 6 players, the party mows through encounters designed for their level, but then they start to lag behind a bit since the XP is divided six ways instead of four, and so they'll reach an...

I have a "secret society" in my campaign setting that serves as a catch-all organization for mystical prestige classes that are supposed to have an organization (in this case, I'm using it as the organization for the daggerspell mage in my campaign). I've written up a custom affiliation a la...

I'm actually not so sure that a lack of new OGL material is necessarily hurting the production of adventures. I would think a lot of publishers would want to keep things as simple as possible, and using too much OGL material can be somewhat troublesome. When you use material that comes from any...

Though I don't typically submit many query letters to books (only to Dungeon and Dragon magazines), I have in the past only submitted ideas to one at a time. This may not be representative of how other people do it, but for me I'd rather give it a go one at a time rather than have to explain to...

Yeah, we'll be there through Monday as usual. I'm typically pretty worn out by then, but I'm game for a cookout if time permits. Origins is my "vacation con" where I enjoy myself rather than worrying so much about schmoozing, so I'm up for hanging out. Seems like the only person I ever really...

You know I'll be there. Hopefully this year's trip will be with 100% fewer hotel security guards in my room.

I actually specifically went out of my way when writing the FPC to design at least half of the new talent trees to be Modern compatible, just so there would be some generic new talents that weren't setting specific. Thanks for the plug!

I don't use attack rolls. Too much room for abuse of mechanics.

Well, if each square represented, say, 1 km , then all they would have to do in relative scale is have them sized to fit in those squares. So a 13 km mini would take up 13 squares. Not THAT outlandish. It looks like it's going to be the equivalent of a "Huge Set" anyways, so...*shrug* I always...

Let me tell you something that I really liked about the adventures in SCAP that I don't like about Age of Worms. In Shackled City most adventures had one scene, an actual written out part of the adventure, that served as the "get the players motivated" scene. Either a meeting with an NPC, a...

I actually kind of have to agree. It's not such a big deal most of the time, but the latter half of Age of Worms definitely seems to take place in some Greyhawk-specific locales. I mean...(highlight for spoilers) I don't mind, really, and a lot of the little easter eggs in the campaign have...

Hi. I hope you don't mind if I chime in on this one. I don't work for a company or anything nifty like that, and most of you don't know who I am, so maybe I have a bit of a different perspective on this one. But I'd like to comment on the above, and mearls's addendum. It can be tough at times...