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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 2621665" data-attributes="member: 508">Since I was typing up my first response when Psion posted, I'll address his concerns here: As far as the English-language puzzles, when I first started writing "Challenge of Champions" adventures, I honestly didn't even take that into consideration.  Over time (as people started mentioning it on messageboards, and after I myself finally took the plunge into the Internet - I didn't even own a computer when I wrote the first two; I typed them up at work after hours!), I first realized that there were people all over the world using these, and many of them weren't native English speakers!However, there's only so much I can do about that.  Naturally, not using English-based word puzzles would put a bit of a damper on the creativity process - there's so many cool concepts that involve word play!  I thought about not involving English in any of the scenarios, but to tell the truth, some of my favorite specific scenarios involve word play, and I feel the adventures as a whole would suffer if the scenarios were limited to the "use this pile of equipment to get from point A to point B" ones.That said, I'll see what I can do to limit the language-dependent scenarios in future adventures.  No promises, though: if I come up with a cool language-dependent puzzle, I'll probably want to use it.Johnathan</blockquote>