Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the official Dungeons and Dragons

podcast. This is your host Bart Carroll along with Shelly Masanoble and Trevor Kidd. In today's episode

we'll speak with Richard Baker, lead designer on the recent D&D Adventure

Princes of the Apocalypse. We'll also speak with Pendleton Ward, creator, writer, and producer of Adventure Time, joined by R&D's Chris Perkins.

Richard Bakers. Richard Baker has been a prolific game designer with credits on Dungeons and Dragons, including many of its campaign settings,

Gamma World, and Access and Allies miniatures, as well as author of such

fantasy series as The Last Mythil and Blades of the Moon Sea.

With Sasquatch Game Studio, Rich served as lead designer for elemental evil's featured

adventure Princes of the Apocalypse.

So first of all, welcome to the podcast, Rich.

Hey, it's great to be here. Thanks for joining us, and as we start with a very general question, you've had quite a long experience

with Dungeons and Dragons.

We would always like to ask our guests how they actually got started playing the game.

I started playing D&D, I think back in 1978, my very first D&D product was the old blue box, the one that had the red

dragon of the cover, but of course it was all blue and white, so you couldn't tell what color

it was all blue and white so you couldn't tell what color it was.

And it might have come with the dice that actually had the

the little wax crown so you can kind of fill the numbers in.

Oh yeah. But I had seen some kids at my local hobby store playing D&D and of course

I'm wondering what are they doing with graph paper and pencils and look

to this book and it was the monster manual the you know first edition of the

monster manual crazy I was on the cover and I was just hooked, right? I was like, man, I got to find out what this is and I got to try it out.

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