Monte Cook

Monte Cook at the ENnies award ceremony on August 17, 2007 at Gen Con .

Monte Cook (born January 29, 1968 in Watertown ) is an American author of role-playing game products , especially in the context of the Dungeons and Dragons system (D&D for short). His last project (since May 2009) is a website that has a megadungeon that is growing every day .

Life

Monte Cook started his career with Iron Crown Enterprises in 1988 . There he worked on the games Rolemaster and Champions as an editor, developer and designer. In 1994, Monte Cook joined Tactical Studies Rules (TSR for short) as a game designer and wrote Planescape and the first D&D products. When TSR was bought by Wizards of the Coast (WotC for short), he moved to the Seattle area and eventually became a senior game designer at WotC. There he served as co-author of the third edition of the Dungeons and Dragons RPG (along with Skip Williams and Jonathan Tweet as lead author) and became the registered author of the Dungeon Master's Guide . In 2001 he left WotC to open his own design studio Malhavoc Press with his wife Sue . 2011 returned to Wizards of the Coast and was introduced in January 2012 as lead designer for the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons . But Cook left the company in April 2012 due to irreconcilable differences with the company's management.

Also in 2012, Cook developed the concept of his own role-playing world called Numenera . He presented the concept on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.com and asked for funding of at least US $ 20,000. Ultimately, Cook received $ 517,000 for his concept. The game world then formed the basis for the computer game project of the US developer studio inXile Entertainment and the ideal successor to Planescape: Torment , Torment: Tides of Numenera , in which Cook himself is involved as an author.

Works (selection)

Monte Cook worked on over 100 game titles in his career. Some of the most famous of these are e.g. B. Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil , the Book of Eldritch Might series, the d20 Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying Game (as a freelancer for WotC), the Book of Vile Darkness , Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved , Ptolus and Monte Cook's World of Darkness . He also worked as a regular contributor to Dungeon Magazine's Dungeoncraft column .

• Dungeons & Dragons / Basic Rules / 3rd Monster Handbook, 2004
• Dungeons & Dragons / Basic Rules / 2. Game Master Handbook, 2004,
• Dungeons & Dragons / Basic Rules / 3rd Monster Set, 2003,
• Dungeons & Dragons / Basic Rules / 2. Game Master Set, 2002

Awards

He has been honored several times with the ENnies Awards , the Pen & Paper fan awards , the Nigel D. Findley Memorial Award , the Origins Awards and other awards.

References as an author

A graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop , Monte has published two novels,

• The Glass Prison and
• Of Aged Angels .

He has also published several short stories such as Born in Secrets (in Amazing Stories magazine ), The Rose Window (in the Realms of Mystery anthology ) and A Narrowed Gaze (in the Realms of the Arcane anthology ). His stories appeared in the Malhavoc Press anthologies Children of the Rune and The Dragons' Return and his comic book writing products can be found in the Ptolus: City by the Spire series from DBPro / Marvel . His Saga of the Blade series was reprinted in Game Trade Magazine between 2005 and 2006.

Web links

• Author's HP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ll/20110920
2. ↑ http://community.wizards.com/dndnext/blog/2012/01/09/welcome_to_the_group
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 30, 2013 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1433901524/numenera-a-new-roleplaying-game-from-monte-cook
5. ↑ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera