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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6943360" data-attributes="member: 1">In fact, Mearls started off writing for Mongoose Publishing! Back in 2002 or so, with one of their Quintesstial X books. Then he worked for Malhavoc (Monte Cook's company at the time) for a bit. His roots are very 3PP.Jeremy Crawford also started off with OGL stuff, as I recall. I first remember him with Green Ronin's Blue Rose, which was about 10 years ago. Got an ENnie for it! He may well have done things before that, of course - just running off the top of my head.And Rob Schwalb, one of the 5E designers, now runs Schwalb Entertainment (and has actually just contributed to a project I'll be announcing soon!)I'm getting old. D&D development and management regimes keep changing under me... I remember Rodney when he was a fan running the SWRPG Network (he's now left WotC)!I think of all the 5E development team, the only one who never worked for another company is Chris Perkins. Generally speaking, distinguishing between 3PP and people who happen to currently be employed at WotC right now is fairly meaningless. A lot of WotC folks were 3PP folks, and a lot of 3PP folks were WotC folks. One day some somebody will be talking about how Mike Mearls' new 3PP book is no good because it's not "official", in the same way they talk about Wolfgang Baur or Chris Pramas.</blockquote>