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I really enjoyed the interview. It covers a lot of ground. The first part focuses a lot on the genesis of 4th Edition.

Andy Collins: ... And as far as the transition from 3rd to 4th, the thing I like to say is it took the company going out of business for going from 2nd to 3rd, and we weren't really eager to replicate that business model. So rather than wait until it was too late, we decided to be a little more proactive there.

Well now I've gone and done it! I just submitted our podcast to the Ennies. I am proud of our rag tag Lords and Ladies of Tyr and how much fun we have had doing these podcasts. Our 1000+ and growing listenership tells me that we are doing something interesting. I have really enjoyed seeing our little podcast grow. I have especially enjoyed our podcasts with our special guests over the last year. So here is to the competition! I was looking at the list of podcasts so far that have entered and I have been a listener to them all. Why? Because they are darn good podcasts. I won't feel bad if we don't win. There are many deserving entries and I have enoyed their shows almost as much as I enjoy ours.

I came across this review, by Michael Tresca of the Chicago Examiner. It is of a book called "Dungeons & Desktops"

In research for my upcoming book, Paper & Pixels, I came across a series of articles on Gamasutra about the history of computer role-playing games (CRPGs).  It was the most exhaustive approach on the Internet that I'd ever seen and was valuable in framing my chapter on CRPGs. When I came across Dungeons & Desktops, I noticed some similarities and sure enough, Matt Barton wrote both.

The whole family went to the ENWorld Game Day at Games Plus last Saturday. I met a lot of really nice people there. One of the people I met was Michael Shorten. He writes an RPG column for the Examiner and he gave us a shout out in his latest column.

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After that last article I thought we could use a positive D&D story. 

In the wake of the D&D Essentials (D&D "Basic" set is back!) release later this year, some writers share their thoughts on how playing D&D helped make them better writers.

"Those three years playing D&D at boarding school did more to ground me in storytelling, plot construction, and sheer, raw imaginative throughput than any other single activity of my life."

From IO9.com, "Did Dungeons & Dragons Motivate Dr. Amy Bishop's Murder Spree?"

It's been a long time since the psychopathic nerd stereotype stalked through cheap paperbacks and across TV screens. The Boston Herald digs deep into 1980s D&D paranoia to produce this shockingly clueless set of paragraphs: 

Bishop, now a University of Alabama professor, and her husband James Anderson [pictured below] met and fell in love in a Dungeons & Dragons club while biology students at Northeastern University in the early 1980s, and were heavily into the fantasy role-playing board game, a source told the Herald.

"They even acted this crap out," the source said.