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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mearls" data-source="post: 416873" data-attributes="member: 697">Wow, I hope I've never made comments that make people think I don't like d20 or D&D. On the contrary: I love the games. Heck, I'm one of those guys who clung to 1e after 2e came out. I'm old school, baby!On a more serious note, if I didn't love RPG design I flat out wouldn't do it. I remember before d20 came along I was rather bitter that in order to work on D&D, I'd have to try my luck with articles submitted to Dragon. Working my way up to the point that I could get a design job with WotC seemed an almost impossibly difficult task. When d20 came along, man, that was like someone throwing open the gates to Shangri-La and rolling out the red carpet. I could finally start working on the game that I really wanted to work on all that time I was writing for Unknown Armies, Vampire, Feng Shui, and Hunter.(Speaking of how hard it is to break into writing, Sam Witt has a remarkable amusing story about how he got his big break into TSR. Sam, tell the nice people the story if you have a chance. It's very cool.)</blockquote>