Tales From the Tavern Q&A with Keith Ammann
“I started the blog because of two things: I was unemployed and wanted to get back into writing as a regular practice after having been out of the journalism and publishing fields for more than a decade, and I was dissatisfied with how I’d run the first couple of encounters in the D&D Starter Set adventure Lost Mine of Phandelver and was conducting an autopsy on what had been missing from them. I decided that the process of going line by line through monster stat blocks to try to understand what those stat blocks were telling us about monsters’ natures and combat styles was something that other DMs might be interested in, and I decided to make that the subject of my (then-)daily writing. At the time I didn’t intend for it to become an online reference database, but it grew into that, and I rolled with it.”
