Interview – Richard Pett

An interview with the wonderful, smart, and funny fantasy writer Richard Pett! One of Beer and Battle&#8217;s favorite DND/Pathfinder authors agreed to let us conduct the interview. Author of Trial of the Beast, We Be Goblins!, The Skinsaw Murders, and many many others! jQuery(document).ready(function($) { // We only want these styles applied when javascript is enabled $('.gal_content').css('display', 'block'); $('.thumnail_col').css('width', '181px'); // Initialize Advanced Galleriffic Gallery var gallery = $('#thumbs_6353_59').galleriffic({ delay: 3500, numThumbs: 9, preloadAhead: 9, enableTopPager: 1, enableBottomPager: false, imageContainerSel: '#slideshow_6353_59', controlsContainerSel: '#controls_6353_59', captionContainerSel: '#caption_6353_59', loadingContainerSel: '#loading_6353_59', renderSSControls: true, renderNavControls: true, playLinkText: 'Play Slideshow', pauseLinkText: 'Pause Slideshow', prevLinkText: '‹ Previous Photo', nextLinkText: 'Next Photo ›', nextPageLinkText: '&rsaquo;', prevPageLinkText: '&lsaquo;', enableHistory: 0, autoStart: 1, enableKeyboardNavigation: true, syncTransitions: 1, defaultTransitionDuration: 300, onTransitionOut: function(slide, caption, isSync, callback) { slide.fadeTo(this.getDefaultTransitionDuration(isSync), 0.0, callback); caption.fadeTo(this.getDefaultTransitionDuration(isSync), 0.0); }, onTransitionIn: function(slide, caption, isSync) { var duration = this.getDefaultTransitionDuration(isSync); slide.fadeTo(duration, 1.0); // Position the caption at the bottom of the image and set its opacity var slideImage = slide.find('img'); caption.width(slideImage.width()) .css({ //'bottom' : Math.floor((slide.height() - slideImage.outerHeight()) / 2 - 40), 'top' : slideImage.outerHeight(), 'left' : Math.floor((slide.width() - slideImage.width()) / 2) + slideImage.outerWidth() - slideImage.width() }) .fadeTo(duration, 1.0); }, onPageTransitionOut: function(callback) { this.hide(); setTimeout(callback, 100); // wait a bit }, onPageTransitionIn: function() { var prevPageLink = this.find('a.prev').css('display', 'none'); var nextPageLink = this.find('a.next').css('display', 'none'); // Show appropriate next / prev page links if (this.displayedPage > 0) prevPageLink.css('display', 'block'); var lastPage = this.getNumPages() - 1; if (this.displayedPage < lastPage) nextPageLink.css('display', 'block'); this.fadeTo('fast', 1.0); } }); /**************** Event handlers for custom next / prev page links **********************/ gallery.find('a.prev').click(function(e) { gallery.previousPage(); e.preventDefault(); }); gallery.find('a.next').click(function(e) { gallery.nextPage(); e.preventDefault(); }); });