Poo on Slashdot

DISCLAIMER: Opinions expressed here are my own, and not those of Wizards of the Coast, blah blah blah.

I'm just cranky because I read a Q&A with Andy Collins, Chris Perkins, Scott Rouse, and Sara Girard on Slashdot, which was fine, but then started wading into the comments and got overwhelmed by obnoxious. We try to explain why we think 4e is a better game than any previous edition, and people willfully misread that as "We want you to spend more money."

Damn it, I've been working insanely hard for almost three years now to make the best game I know how to make, the D&D I really want to play, and it pisses me off to watch people dismiss it as a half-assed marketing ploy.

There, I said it. Maybe I shouldn't be saying it publicly, but I'm on vacation and my boss can't yell at me until . . . well, until I go play D&D at his house on Thursday.

Dragon Forge Cover on Amazon

It's probably been there for a while, but I only just noticed that Amazon.com has the cover of Dragon Forge. It's purty.

I have the bound galley of the book in front of me as I'm working on Dragon War, book 3 in the trilogy. I am on vacation this week and next, which means that my work on the 4e core rule books is pretty much finished and I can finally return the time and attention that I stole from this book for months as I was trying to get the DMG finished and then adventure H3, Pyramid of Shadows. Two weeks of full-time novel writing. Wild and wacky.

Oxymoron of the day:
"Top News: Jane Fonda uses vulgarity on Today show"

All right, back to it.

Triple Play

This one took many tries to figure out, and I only did it by putting in an extra, non-symmetrical given (that blue N). But there just aren't that many triplets of words that'll work in a sudoku grid, so I had to plow through and make it work!


In the meantime...
• The DMG is safely in editing.
• The Player's Handbook is so close to done I can taste it!
• The art order for H3: Pyramid of Shadows is finally done.
• I had a fantastic time playing my paladin, Baredd, tonight. 
• Dragon War is suffering from neglect.