What did Monte mean?

[Dorloran]

I've been seeing that Monte Cook remarked that he never liked d20, and that he thought it was designed by hacks?

Does anyone know where this comes from?

Do you know to what he might have been referring (break-down at high levels, too many save or die, d20 yields too narrow a range of results, etc.) and what was the context of the remark??

Thanks!

 

[Laman Stahros]

Monte Cook was one of the designers of 3e D&D (and therefore d20). He has posted statements like that here as a joke on a number of occasions.

 

[Shieldhaven]

Are you sure he wasn't poking fun at himself? Because, you know, he is one of those hacks...

Hard to know, without more context.

Haven

 

[frankthedm]

I've been seeing that Monte Cook remarked that he never liked d20, and that he thought it was designed by hacks?

Does anyone know where this comes from?

Do you know to what he might have been referring (break-down at high levels, too many save or die, d20 yields too narrow a range of results, etc.) and what was the context of the remark??

Thanks!

1. He was one of those "hacks". He is taking a jab at himself

2. The D&D game going from 2e to 3e was rebalanced with rules to cover most situations with most of those rules favoring players rather being nuetral as most other games are. The reason for this was simple, there are more players than DMs buying the books and if the game takes it easy on players, the game company sells more books.

3E: Players and their money are soon parted.

 

[pogre]

I've been seeing that Monte Cook remarked that he never liked d20, and that he thought it was designed by hacks?

Does anyone know where this comes from?

Do you know to what he might have been referring (break-down at high levels, too many save or die, d20 yields too narrow a range of results, etc.) and what was the context of the remark??

Thanks!

It was a joke.

 

[Crothian]

and what was the context of the remark??

The context is really what you need to understand it and even more so when he said it.

 

[blargney the second]

Specifically, it was something he said on April Fool's.

 

[JustKim]

Why is Monte Cook so mean

Let us solve this with science by ruling out possibilities

Μιλώ μια άλλη γλώσσα.

No sense of humor.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Arrr! That landlubber was makin' himself walkin the plank on purpose.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Yeah, as others said, he was making a joke. The context? He was making a joke. Then some decided that what he said was funny, so they (diaglo, for one) used it as a sig quote. That's all it was: a joke.