Comment from discussion Hey Mike,
Just got into tabletop last year and now I’m addicted. Been following you ever since, lapping up the tidbits about D&D 5 leading up to the launch.
2 questions: 1. What’s your very best life advice? 2. What exactly does the D&D R&D office look like? I imagine there are vials and bunsen burners?Don’t just accept the options that other people give to you. Find your own path. If you don’t know what that path is, find a steady job to keep yourself comfortable while you work that out.
Focus on what you really want, not what people tell you you’re supposed to want.
People totally underrate jobs like becoming a plumber and look down their noses at it. But when you think about it, being a plumber pays well, you have different challenges every day, and when you get good you can start your own business with it. People will always need toilets and they will always pay lots of money to keep their toilets working.
And if your toilet breaks, you can fix it yourself.
The office is like your basic, open cube layout, but features a lot more D&D posters, action figures, board games, and dioramas of ruined castles than most other offices.AMA: Mike Mearls, Co-Designer of D&D 5, Head of D&D R&D.
Just got into tabletop last year and now I’m addicted. Been following you ever since, lapping up the tidbits about D&D 5 leading up to the launch.
2 questions: 1. What’s your very best life advice? 2. What exactly does the D&D R&D office look like? I imagine there are vials and bunsen burners?Don’t just accept the options that other people give to you. Find your own path. If you don’t know what that path is, find a steady job to keep yourself comfortable while you work that out.
Focus on what you really want, not what people tell you you’re supposed to want.
People totally underrate jobs like becoming a plumber and look down their noses at it. But when you think about it, being a plumber pays well, you have different challenges every day, and when you get good you can start your own business with it. People will always need toilets and they will always pay lots of money to keep their toilets working.
And if your toilet breaks, you can fix it yourself.
The office is like your basic, open cube layout, but features a lot more D&D posters, action figures, board games, and dioramas of ruined castles than most other offices.AMA: Mike Mearls, Co-Designer of D&D 5, Head of D&D R&D.