I also gather he wasn’t too happy with the demise of d20 – he had to spend a lot of time ploughing through all his PDF products and removing the logo to continue to sell them.

Basically, he knows that d20/OGL based gaming still has a substantial fanbase, and most likely will for years to come. If people still want to buy products for that system, why not carry on selling them?

He’s presently doing some work part-time for Paizo on their Pathfinder product.

You can read some of his thoughts on these subjects here:

http://montecook.livejournal.com/148673.html

http://montecook.livejournal.com/147971.html

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@Satyre & @Tahakkis: I think Monte sticks to 3.5 because he co-wrote the rules and prefers them to what 4e offers. Plus, like many other publishers, he’s I bet he’s not satisfied with the Game System License and prefers the Open Game one.

@Mike: A Very valid option you chose. The only thing is that you’ll lose out on the whole inter-linking of it all, unless you manage to download the whole website on your computer. As far as I know, dungeon a day doesn’t have a ‘click here to download dungeon’ option… but I might have missed it… or it may become available once a full level is available.

@Warlord: I too was very disappointed he didn’t just to 4e, but he made decided to stick with the 3.5 crowd and that’s his prerogative. The 3.5 game is still an awesome set of RPG rules and many people will continue playing it for a long time… there’s definitively a market there.

Did Mr. Cook ever give a reason why he would support the new edition?

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I totally realize that my complaint isn’t all that reasonable, being that monte has never really made a point to conform to WotC’s rules in the past I’m just nagging shamlessly because I’ve always loved monte’s stuff, and now he’s completely diverted from the official D&D ruleset. Oh well, C’est la vie

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I know it sounds cheap, but that’s what I’m doing with D&D Insider. I’m running their Scales of War path with my current group, but we take so many side treks, I simply don’t need new content every month. Paying once every three months is cheaper for me, and still gives me the same content.

Can’t blame him for doing this in 3.x E either. With recent events, it looks like the chainlink fences are being erected around 4E content and this can only do Dungeonaday good in my view.

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Still, I get what you say, I too would have prefered Monte works on 4e… but then again, they guy co-created 3.0, it stands to reason that he wants to stick with it as long as it is commercially viable.

As rockstar awesome as Dungeon-A-Day looks, however, I’m still hesitant to subscribe to it due to Monte’s dismissal of the 4E ruleset. I’m an open minded GM when it comes to running different rulesets/editions, but both my gaming groups have embraced 4e and never looked back. I’m sure the OGL stuff would work just fine once converted and tweaked, but I simply have qualms with having to still *build (4e)* encounters after paying to have said material built for me beforehand. Call it lazy – Call it nit-picky, I would just simply get irked by having to convert to 4e at every avenue.

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