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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 2445858" data-attributes="member: 4">I am proud of it, but from my side much of it appears to be a combination of luck, being in the right place at the right time (I'm thinking particularly of the Ryan Dancey OGL/d20 System interview), latching on to the right people to help with moderating, stuff like that.  And no, I never had any clue about the site's success and everything it would lead to or become.  By all rights, it shouldn't have succeeded.  Have you seen how many RPG sites are out there gathering dust, rotting away?  That's what should have happened to mine.  That it didn't is a testament to how psyched people were (and still are) about D&D.  I made mistakes -- a lot of mistakes, some big, some small.  I spent too much time on the site, to be honest -- my life was out of balance for those two years (my satisfaction at work was ebbing, I wasn't putting in enough time on my relationships, I wasn't exercising enough).  I made errors in judgement.  I burned bridges with Nutkinland -- the way I left, and the way I left things, is one of my biggest regrets and disappointments (in myself).  But I am proud of the work that I did, and the way I chose to end it.  And I'm so pleased that its legacy lives on that I can hardly express it.</blockquote>