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<blockquote data-quote="Azlan" data-source="post: 192014" data-attributes="member: 2340">You guys are so eager to get me on some technicality, so that you can disqualify my entire viewpoint. Now you're saying my motives or my agenda are suspicious? Well, not to make Monte Cook's rant the focus of, or the reason for, my post here (because it surely is not!), but following is a quote, verbatim, from the webpage that I provided the link to, written by Monte Cook himself...&quot;You would most likely be surprised how common this is. In the corner of the game industry that is d20, I need two hands to count all the game professionals I know who are working on products but do not play the game regularly. I can think of at least a few who -- I'm fairly certain -- have never played a session of 3rd Edition D&amp;D. &quot;Why, there are a surprisingly large number of people just down the street from me at Wizards of the Coast who -- aside from the occasional mandated in-house playtest -- never play the game. And these Wizards people are, as I type this, working on D&amp;D and d20 products.&quot;Okay, now, someone isn't being truthful here! Either it's you, Henry... or it was Monte... or it was someone impersonating Monte.So you say. (Or so Anthony Valterra, Business Mgr. for WotC, says.) And yet Monte wrote what he wrote -- and it's still available on his webpage, for all to read! That he later tried to modify or rectify what he wrote (as you related it, Henry) only makes me think that something's fishy... although I'm not quite sure where the smell is coming from...Or by slamming the game itself. Yes, I know that now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Azlan, post: 192014, member: 2340"] You guys are so eager to get me on some technicality, so that you can disqualify my entire viewpoint. Now you're saying my motives or my agenda are suspicious? Well, not to make Monte Cook's rant the focus of, or the reason for, my post here (because it surely is not!), but following is a quote, verbatim, from the webpage that I provided the link to, written by Monte Cook himself... [i]"You would most likely be surprised how common this is. In the corner of the game industry that is d20, I need two hands to count all the game professionals I know who are working on products but do not play the game regularly. I can think of at least a few who -- I'm fairly certain -- have never played a session of 3rd Edition D&D. "Why, there are a surprisingly large number of people just down the street from me at Wizards of the Coast who -- aside from the occasional mandated in-house playtest -- never play the game. And these Wizards people are, as I type this, working on D&D and d20 products."[/i] Okay, now, [i]someone[/i] isn't being truthful here! Either it's you, Henry... or it was Monte... or it was someone impersonating Monte. So you say. (Or so Anthony Valterra, Business Mgr. for WotC, says.) And yet Monte wrote what he wrote -- and it's still available on his webpage, for all to read! That he later tried to modify or rectify what he wrote (as you related it, Henry) only makes me think that something's fishy... although I'm not quite sure where the smell is coming from... Or by slamming the game itself. Yes, I know that now. [/QUOTE]

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