Q&A with Jeffery Quinn

[Havard]

What did I miss?

Pretty good list there. You only missed a little imprint called Wizards of the Coast. :twisted:

:oops: little imprint indeed! Sorry Jeff!

The rumors of my "demise" have been greatly exaggerated. Truth be told, Blackmoor burned me out. I poured 3 years worth of my blood, sweet, and tears into those early books and helped Dave set the tone for what was to be a triumphant resurrection of a great setting. However, a labor of love doesn't pay the bills and at the time of the Cabal and Scar I was expecting my third child. I went back to work and just couldn't get the creative engines as hot as before.

I'm glad to hear you are back! As I remember you were were communicative with us fans back on the original ZGG board. It was great having someone on the "inside" who took the time to talk to us and I think ZGG benefited alot from that as well.

As for projects now, I am working on a few. Two are monumentally HUGE. The others are smaller, but just as ground breaking. I'll keep this forum in mind when they start hitting the ground.
I know, you want a hint... OK. One of the HUGE projects has a little tagline for it, "Grognards unite! Your Destiny has arrived."

Very interesting! Make sure you do remember to keep us posted on this!

Dave filled Blackmoor with little hidden nuggets of his life. Some things are "inn" jokes and stories from his various game groups over the years. Some refer to industry pioneers, others to the industry itself. Most of these are thinly veiled, tongue-in-cheek pokes. The Scar is my poke. The Scar is my Egg of Coot. hock:

"Inn" jokes, lol
Although its not what you are saying here, I always associated the Scar with the Egg of Coot myself.

No. I was in the minority with the whole MMRPG thing. I was against it from the start. For those that played in the campaign, I'm glad you had fun with it. The idea of the MMRPG while 3e Blackmoor was in its infancy felt like too heavy a weight for the campaign to handle at the time. I'm glad I was wrong.

Its interesting to hear that you were discussing it in-house. From what I heard from people heavily involved in the MMRPG it was a great thing. Still, I wonder what things may have been different if ZGG had not spread their attention out towards so many different projects and focused more on getting books published...

PS - Yes, Dave told me the true secret of the Egg. No, I won't tell anyone. Don't even ask.

You tease!

Havard