View From the Bushes

Ross started playing D&D in 1980 in a desperate bid to escape the squalor of the inner-city ghetto. Amazingly it worked and that same year he moved to a palatial estate high up on the hill. The years that followed are a haze of experimentation: Gurps, Hero, Rolemaster and even some nasty stuff he whipped up in his basement. Finally he started using Rifts and hit rock bottom.

Fortunately right around this time he met his wife. She cleaned him up long enough for him to complete his degree in creative writing, learn a skill that people would actually pay for (unlike an English degree) and start a novel. Of course like all hard core addicts eventually he had a relapse, and this time he really hit bottom: D20 PDF publishing. It doesn’t get any more pathetic than that.

One day while reading the "Scaling the Adventure" sidebar in Dungeon, Ross realized that the same thing could be done for the DM online. Thus began his descent into madness. Thousands of lines of code, more money than his wife cares to admit, and a year and a half later he's the proud owner of a dot-com exactly three years after the bubble burst and they all became worth just slightly more than the Italian Lira.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero,
Ross