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Keith Ammann

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Keith Ammann is the ENNIE-winning author of The Monsters Know What They’re Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters, MOAR! Monsters Know What They’re Doing, How to Defend Your Lair, and most recently Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games, as well as the blog The Monsters Know What They’re Doing (themonstersknow.com). He’s been a role-playing gamer and game master for more than thirty years. He likes to play outwardly abrasive helpers, out-of-their-element helpers, and genuinely nice, helpful helpers. Mostly, though, he plays non-player characters. And monsters.

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Keith Ammann Glad you're enjoying them! W/r/t Live to Tell, it's not my decision or even necessarily my publisher's whether or not to publish an audiobook edition.…moreGlad you're enjoying them! W/r/t Live to Tell, it's not my decision or even necessarily my publisher's whether or not to publish an audiobook edition. Instead, an audiobook publisher has to buy the rights. Tantor bought the audiobook rights to The Monsters Know, and Simon & Schuster kept the audiobook rights to MOAR! Monsters in-house, so it's published by Simon & Schuster Audio. However, no one offered to buy the rights to Live to Tell. TBH, I'm not sure that Live to Tell would make that good an audiobook, anyway, since the reader has to be able to see the battle maps in the last section for it to make sense, and there's no good way to translate those to audio.(less)
Keith Ammann It’s spelled "bin'azg," and it's meant to be pronounced bin-AHZG, with a clear glottal stop (as in "uh-oh") between the syllables.…moreIt’s spelled "bin'azg," and it's meant to be pronounced bin-AHZG, with a clear glottal stop (as in "uh-oh") between the syllables.(less)
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“A chasme (kaz-mee) is a four-legged demonic mosquito the size of a horse.”
Keith Ammann, The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters

“(It’s a skull! That’s on fire! And hovering! And talking to you!),”
Keith Ammann, The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters

“Surely [stab] we can come to some [stab] mutually satisfactory arrangement?”
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Topics Mentioning This Author

“Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.”
Italian Proverb

“To see what’s right and not do it is cowardice.”
Confucius, The Analects
tags: ethics

“Cowards can handle Arms, can strike where they are sure to meet with no Return, can wound, mangle and murder; but it belongs to brave Men to spare, and to protect.”
Benjamin Franklin, A narrative of the late massacres, in Lancaster County, of a number of Indians, friends of this province, by persons unknown: with some observations on the same

“The culture of our world, right now, is crafted by little boys who only recall being stood up on their first date, and nothing they got after. They don't remember the sand they kicked in other people's eyes, only their own injuries. Our art is cynical and bad-ass and made by people who will not be happy until you join them in the church of "everything is fucked up, so throw up your hands." This is art as anesthesia.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The ax forgets; the tree remembers.”
Shona proverb

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