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The acts of the blood god.

Oh, ha ha ha's official RPG podcast.

I'm your host, Kat Bailey.

Back after a two-week hiatus, which was not intentional.

We actually intended to be back last week, but we lost our recording, which really kind of

stunk because it was a really good podcast.

But the person that we recorded with is back, and we're going to try it again, and that

is David Craddock. Is it Craddock try it again and that is David Craddock.

Is it Craddock or Craddock?

It's Craddock.

Craddock, yes, I got it right.

And he is the author of Stay a While and Listen, which is the history of Blizzard and also

Blizzard North and Dungeon Hacks, which he released, I believe,

a couple months ago, and you can find the review of that on US Gamer.

We're going to talk about both those books.

But the reason I have David on the show, aside from the fact that he wrote a really

excellent book about roguelikes, is that I just posted a cover story

that I've been working on for a while, which is an oral history of Diablo 2, which you should

definitely go and read. It's a really, if I do say so myself, a really interesting read.

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