DarthJodoc

What were your old D&D characters? I know from prior interviews/tidbits that Lord British (or "a" Lord British) was a high-level magic-user, & that Shamino was a ranger (was this the ranger class from Dragon magazine for the original white box rules, or the AD&D one?). Who/what else did you play?

Made a paladin for Baldur's Gate D&D CRPG specifically because it was the closest thing I could have to an Avatar-like character.

With your world travels, family, & whatnot, not to mention your creation of languages for your games, have you become multilingual to some degree?

I recall from previous interviews/bios that your D&D teletype series were the product of high school classes that served as your foreign language credit.

Big fan of Samuari Champloo & many other works you have been a part of. I am curious if there are any of your works (past, present, or pending) that you really enjoyed doing because of things you liked growing up? For example, I can only imagine what it would be like to work on something for Star Wars.

I can understand that all too well—I spent most of my years in college mastering my native language. Only recall fragments of German (from HS) and Spanish (from college), & a word or two of Thai (from wife & mother-in-law), but other than that, it's just English for me.

And, FWIW, do not concern yourself too much with writing: for one, it's a skill improved by practice, like anything else; also, despite my degrees & expertise, I still make mistakes & have to double-check certain conventions of the language. Besides, if everyone could write flawlessly, editors & proofreaders would be out of jobs.

OH!—something I recall from a YouTube video interview with Noah Antwiler was work you did for creating a writing system based on phonetics (core letters with minor mods to indicate if it was voiced, unvoiced, plosive, etc.). Was that what Gargish came from, or is it something else? I'm extremely curious about that work of yours (thanks to a History of the English language course from my M.A. days).