Seeing Monte Cook referred to as "one of the old dnd dudes" made me shake my head in sorrow.
Zeb Cook, yes. Old D&D dude, head designer for AD&D 2e. Worked there long before that, too.
Monte? Uh, we hired him in 1994. Now he has his own company that routinely blows the doors off Kickstarters. And he's talented.
But hardly an "old dnd dude."