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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kelleris" data-source="post: 2702406" data-attributes="member: 19130">I faced a unique challenge along these lines recently.  I spent most of the summer writing a book for EN Publishing (see sig), with the result that I was unable to complete a paper rewrite I had promised my favorite philosophy professor/mentor at Baylor (from which I recently graduated with a B.A.).  The rewrite was optional as they come, and I needed some money to scrape through this year, so I don't regret doing it the way I did (although I had hoped I could do both when I started writing).But I had to explain what I had been up to instead of writing philosophy.  Now, I'm positive that this professor doesn't know anything about P&P RPGs, much less the writing of sourcebooks for said RPGs.  Furthermore, he's an evangelical Christian and so may have heard bad things about D&D, but also a very intelligent and reasonable person so extremely unlikely to jump to stupid conclusions.  The explanation for the process of writing a d20 sourcebook I eventually gave him was as follows:His response was that it sounded, quote, "very complicated and impressive" - this from a distinguished professor of philosophy who has published 8 full-length books and numerous articles himself.  I think I may have overdone the explanation just a bit, eh?   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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