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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 1800435" data-attributes="member: 508">Originally posted by Olaf the Stout:Maybe he will.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The decision to stop publishing Monster Hunters Association "Ecology" articles was not mine.  In fact, when Jesse Decker took over the reins of Dragon from Dave Gross, I got six "Ecology" articles returned to me, rejected, because the decision had been made at that point to change the format of "Ecology" articles away from the "fiction and footnote" method that had been around since the column's inception.  Three of those were Monster Hunters Association ecologies (gulguthydra, grick, and death kiss), two were Shandrilla/Javorik ecologies (chuul and destrachan), and one was a standalone (grey render).  Each had been through several rounds of "polishing" and had been just about ready for acceptance when the new leadership decided they were no longer desired.  Bummer, huh?I've pinged each new editor of Dragon since, seeing if they were planning on returning to the "fiction and footnote" format, but it doesn't look like that's ever going to happen.  And, since the MHA appeared in Dragon, a WotC publication (at the time), it's not like I can go publish MHA ecologies anywhere else.  (Plus, much of what they deal with isn't part of the SRD; kind of hard to use Ozzie, for instance, when I can't mention osquips....)End result:  It looks like the Monster Hunters Association is on the back burner, probably indefinitely.  A real pity, too, as I simply loved writing about them.  (I had even started working on and was halfway finished with the now-abandoned "Ecology of the Aranea" - Azurielle the nymph gets kidnapped and held for ransom, and it's the Monster Hunters to the rescue -  and had come up with another one based on the idea of Willowquisp as a guest speaker at a mage fair, asked to give a presentation about umplebies, when all they really wanted was a bunch of obscure facts about a monster nobody really cared about so that two rival bards could have a "rhyming duel" - Willowquisp would mention an umpleby fact, one bard would put it to music, Willowquisp would say something else, and the other bard would have to set that to music, rhyming with the first verse.  I even had most of the "umpleby lyrics" down pat.  But oh well.)As for the "Challenge of Champions" series, I haven't yet started actually writing the 6th one yet, but I know the "trick" I want to do with it, and I'll probably start cranking out individual scenarios early next year.  In the meantime, my "Return to Gorgoldand's Gauntlet" submission no longer fits the format of Dungeon (it's too big, for one thing, but are you starting to see a pattern with my luck?), so I'm following James Jacobs' excellent advice and reworking it as a shorter, standalone adventure that has nothing to do with the Gauntlet.  With any luck I'll have that one back to Dungeon by year's end, and then we'll see where it goes from there.In any case, thanks for the kind words, Olaf!Johnathan</blockquote>

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