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AMA (Tuesday noon, April 28): Mike Selinker, your 2015 ENnie Awards host, ex-D&D creative director, and creator of the RPG/card game hybrid Apocrypha
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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Selinker" data-source="post: 6603701" data-attributes="member: 51587"><p>I love this question. Thanks for asking it.</p><p></p><p>When I left Wizards, I immediately was certain I would miss two things: the best coworkers I'd ever had and the best games I'd ever worked on. I quickly discovered that the first one was ridiculous: I kept all of those friends, and since I still lived five minutes from WotC, I saw them all the time. If you have real friends at work, nothing about your work life will change whether they're still your friends.</p><p></p><p>But the games thing… That was harder. I loved Magic and D&D, as well as the great stuff my team was making for Avalon Hill (Axis & Allies, Godstorm, Betrayal). Working on those things every day was addictive, and leaving them behind was really difficult. It put me into withdrawal on CCGs and RPGs; I stopped playing RPG campaigns (other than a yearly game with Andy Collins) for about five years, and I stopped playing Magic in favor of deckbuilders. While I was helping Paizo with games around the time they launched Pathfinder, I kept far out of Jason Bulmahn's way, unless he really needed advice on something. I didn't want to be the guy who was hanging onto the past. But I definitely missed it.</p><p></p><p>That said, I loved working on new styles of board games with James Ernest, and then with my other teammates. What got me back into D&D wasn't working on the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, though that helped. It has hanging around Rodney Thompson and Trevor Kidd and Greg Bilsland and a new generation of D&D writers that I really liked. So now I'm in Rodney's regular campaign, and in Greg Bilsland's charity campaign for Extra Life. Those guys really inspired me with their vision.</p><p></p><p>Oh, one more big regret: I left Wizards before making sure that the Underground Lake wasn't on the top floor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Selinker, post: 6603701, member: 51587"] I love this question. Thanks for asking it. When I left Wizards, I immediately was certain I would miss two things: the best coworkers I'd ever had and the best games I'd ever worked on. I quickly discovered that the first one was ridiculous: I kept all of those friends, and since I still lived five minutes from WotC, I saw them all the time. If you have real friends at work, nothing about your work life will change whether they're still your friends. But the games thing… That was harder. I loved Magic and D&D, as well as the great stuff my team was making for Avalon Hill (Axis & Allies, Godstorm, Betrayal). Working on those things every day was addictive, and leaving them behind was really difficult. It put me into withdrawal on CCGs and RPGs; I stopped playing RPG campaigns (other than a yearly game with Andy Collins) for about five years, and I stopped playing Magic in favor of deckbuilders. While I was helping Paizo with games around the time they launched Pathfinder, I kept far out of Jason Bulmahn's way, unless he really needed advice on something. I didn't want to be the guy who was hanging onto the past. But I definitely missed it. That said, I loved working on new styles of board games with James Ernest, and then with my other teammates. What got me back into D&D wasn't working on the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, though that helped. It has hanging around Rodney Thompson and Trevor Kidd and Greg Bilsland and a new generation of D&D writers that I really liked. So now I'm in Rodney's regular campaign, and in Greg Bilsland's charity campaign for Extra Life. Those guys really inspired me with their vision. Oh, one more big regret: I left Wizards before making sure that the Underground Lake wasn't on the top floor. [/QUOTE]
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