Monte Cook is a professional game designer of some renown. Game design is the process of designing the content, background and rules of a game. ...

Cook is one of the three authors of the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons, along with Skip Williams and Jonathan Tweet. According to the bio on his website, Monte has been a professional game designer since 1988. For other uses, see Dungeons & Dragons (disambiguation). ... Skip Williams is a creator of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition. ... Jonathan Tweet is a game designer who has been involved in the development of the role-playing games Ars Magica, Everway, Over the Edge, Talislanta and the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Some time after co-authoring the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons, Cook left Wizards of the Coast to write material for the d20 System independently. His most notable recent work is probably Arcana Unearthed, a product he describes as a "variant player's handbook". Arcana Unearthed enjoyed surprising popularity and high sales shortly after publication. Wizards of the Coast (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is a publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes. ... d20 redirects here. ... Arcana Unearthed is a popular role-playing game created by Monte Cook. ... Players Handbook for D&D version 3. ...

Among the first to sell rpg materials in pdf format, Cook and his company, Malhavoc Press, enjoyed almost immediate success. By conclusively showing that the gaming market would accept electronic format books, he created an entirely new marketplace for many rpg publishers, both big and small.

He caused controversy in mid-2004 by exclusively selling his electronic d20 material with the DriveThruRPG.com store, which then used only the privacy-protected DRM PDF system. He eventually succumbed to pressure from his customers to sell his products in standard-PDF form, and DriveThruRPG has more recently done the same. Digital Rights Management or DRM is an umbrella term for any of several technologies used to enforce holder desired policies for controlling access to digital data (such as software, music, movies) and hardware. ...

External links

• montecook.com: His official website
• Pen & Paper listing for Monte Cook
• Interview at Flames Rising