They couldn't say for legal reasons, not all the t's were crossed off on the contracts I presume. But the implication was certainly that it was someone of showrunner importance to the show, as compared to random comic writer or even a random scriptwriter that worked on the show.

We had an interesting conversation at game night tonight. Two of our regular players are planning to buy D & D 4.0 as soon as it comes out. The more I hear about it the more I want to go back to playing 1st edition. Would anyone like to discuss?

On the industry, there is a lot of debate about how many will emigrate to 4.0. There seems to be a lot of noise that a lot of people are thinking they will not be happy with 4.0, but there are two concerns. One is that of course the complainers will sound like they are more than they actually are, simply because they are the only ones talking. The other is very similar noises was made before 3.0, and something like 90% of the gamer population ended up making the switch anyways.

BTW, have you tried Castles and Crusades? It's an OGL/d20 pushed towards replicating the 1st edition experience...

There's an awful lot of Superman in this, but the main thing I got out of it was SEAGUY 2!: [link]

have you tried Castles and Crusades?

This is the first I've heard of it. I'll have to bring it up at the next game night. We were joking about playing 1st edition but we do have a lot of the books and it might be fun making a character from straight stats again. We were just messing around last night and ended up with some pretty decent numbers just rolling 3d6.

The company that puts it out is Troll Lord Games, and they have fairly decent array of material available...

I just found out Monks will be eliminated. My first 9th level character was a monk. My gaming buddy just shrugs and says, "monks were broken."

it was someone of showrunner importance to the show

Let it be Ricky, let it be Ricky, let it be Ricky.

Ricky Manning is the writer of the best of the last season episodes, the guy who came up with Scorpius, and the writer of "Won't Get Fooled Again". He's the Tim Minear of the Farscape universe, and it would be awesome if they use him. He's an antidote to Kemper and O'Bannon's sentimentality.

Hell, everything has been broken at one time or another in D&D. Maybe it suffered from the not being video game enough...

I hear my playmates say "oh that's broken" quite a bit but I usually don't get what they mean. I also don't understand meta-gaming. Why go to all the trouble of creating a character if you're not going to approach situations from your character's point of view?