Visiting with the Malhavoc power couple was pleasant, and Chris Perkins dropped by to show off a copy of the new, leather-bound PHB (in stores any time now, and loaded with all of the latest v3.5 errata). Black leather, silver foil, looks damn good for $75. We talked shop.
The interview kicked off more or less on time. Monte,
The tangents visited topics from the fate of Gaslight Games, to fiction, to everyone's favorite games, and so forth. There was a lot of discussion of the Mortality guys' recent losses to the Florida hurricanes (pretty serious). The main geekish subjects — namely Beyond Countless Doorways and Planescape — got lots of questions from the listeners, some pretty obscure, some right on target.
I confessed my fondness for Assassin Mountain and all the old Al-Qadim projects I worked on, though I know anything Arabian is no longer even the least bit fashionable these days. Makes me sad, since those were the first stand-alone books I wrote. And I still like the Arabian Nights style. I get a tiny wry kick every time I hear about the Iraqi pidgin for looters and thieves: "Ali Babas". Sad that the romantic, Ray Harryhausen, Thief of Baghdad view of the Middle East is completely shot to hell.
I drove home listening to some killer blues tunes at high volume, prepared to arrive in triumph. Unfortunately,
The archive of the show (#67)
Finally, some people asked when there would be rogue follow-up to the "Book of Iron Might," so Monte and I gave the Mortality guys a scoop on an upcoming project. Yes, the Ω project mentioned here is really a Malhavoc class book called The Book of Roguish Luck, written by your own Monkey King. We joked around about it a little, and "let slip" that it would ship next year in the summer, probably around June. I'm delighted to share the scoop here as well, but that's about all I can say about it for now. More details in about 2 weeks time.
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I'm glad you had fun, darling... but I am sad that I muted Bill O'Reilly for it. ;-P
Ah well, I had fun dreaming of coast-to-coast gamer broadcasts for an hour.