GS: How are you incorporating the latest version of the Dungeons & Dragons rules (version 3.5)? What sort of challenges does this create? After all, it's difficult to do a straight translation of pen-and-paper rules so that they apply in a virtual, real-time world.

JES: We're upgrading as much as we can. We're switching out all of the major components that changed for 3.5, but remaining issues have less to do with the virtual, real-time nature of the game engine and more to do with how the legacy Neverwinter game logic works. In a nutshell, the rules in the book are less restrictive than the rules in the code.