Recently, Monte Cook hired his friend Charles Ryan to join Monte Cook Games as Chief Operating Officer to help launch the science fantasy roleplaying game “Numenera” later this summer. Ryan has been working in the RPG industry for 20 years, including a stint as the brand manager for Dungeons and Dragons third edition. MTV Geek talked to Ryan about his relationship with Monte, what he brings to Monte Cook Games, and the future of “Numenera.”

MTV Geek: How do you know Monte Cook?

Charles Ryan: Monte and I overlapped for a while at Wizards of the Coast, when he and I were both on the RPG R&D team. I think the first product we crossed paths on was d20 Call of Cthulhu, for which I did a bit of editing. We remained friends throughout the years my family and I were living in the Seattle area, even after Monte left Wizards. More recently, my wife Tammie started doing some work for Monte, so he happened to get the word pretty quickly when my previous job came to an end. I think that was the point at which he and Shanna were thinking very seriously about the future of Monte Cook Games, and were concluding that maybe it was turning into something much bigger than they had perhaps initially intended–something that was eating up far more time than they had on their own.

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