I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.