CoHW: I've read that you spent your college years writing RPG materials - you have quite an impressive resume of books that you have been involved with writing in some way. How did you get into writing, especially of RPG materials?

Rick: I started writing for RPG's while I was in Grad School at Ohio State. I had played RPG's since third grade and had wanted to break into the biz for several years. My friend Mark Friedman and I were driving to Gen Con and he mentioned that he happened to know the woman who was in charge of White Wolf's new game, Wraith. We decided to pitch her an idea for a book, which eventually became Dark Kingdom of Jade, which was, I think, the first Asian setting for any White Wolf project.