General RPG DiscussionDiscussion of all RPGs and non-system-specific topics. DM/GM/player issues, settings, etc. Rules discussion belongs in one the forums below.
Here's to the four dimensions of ENWorld (with apologies to original author)
Here's to the four dimensions of ENWorld
Swearing, Lying, Stealing and Drinking.
When, you swear, swear by your edition;
When you lie, lie about min/maxing;
When you steal, steal a plot from the Story Hour;
And when you drink, drink with me.
Cheers to Eric, Morrus, Piratecat, and many, many more!
I just came here little less than two years ago, looking for info on the then-upcoming D&D 4th edition... And I really feel more at home here than on any other gaming site.
Thank you very much to everyone here for such a great site
__________________ "I am King of the Romans and above the rules of grammar!" - Sigismund, Roman Emperor and my new hero
"Craft and profession skills are a tax on people who believe characterization and back-story are important." - Obryn
"Another thing to keep in mind is that the typical D&D party is to medieval armies what the A-team is to modern police." - Eamon
"I realize falling isn't specifically a push, pull, or slide, but I'd heavily argue that gravity is forced movement." - Old Gumphrey
I like this place! I think I'll stick around for a little while.
__________________ - Piratecat, EN World Admin
Currently editing the 4e War of the Burning Sky adventure path. Support EN Publishing, get excellent modules!
Congrats, and thanks, to Eric, Morrus and everyone who has contributed to making this place (and CM) so great! Thanks to you I can honestly say that I've spent more time over the past 10 years reading and posting on gaming messageboards than I have actually gaming!
__________________ "I urge you to make up a simplified version of the D&D game for play with as many of [your children] as are now willing and able to play. The thrill of the adventure and rolling of the dice is likely to make them devoted gamers ever after."
- Col_Pladoh's advice to me, and my advice to you.
Thanks to everyone in the community for making the place so great, but special thanks to Eric and Morrus. I've been here all ten years and hope it never goes away.
Just thinking a bit about all the life changes during that time frame (joined up in the fall of 1999)...
1) Marriage
2) 2 kids
3) Moved from NC to MD
4) Bought and sold 2 houses
5) Played a very successful 3-year 3E game (been in a virtually non-gaming slump for the past couple of years)
6) Started 2 new business
7) Went from late 30s to late 40s
Wow...
Big thanks to Eric for cranking it up, to Morrus for keeping it running, for the generous folks that have opened their wallets several times to keep everything afloat, to the Mods that keep it Grandma friendly and to all the folks I have met - either in person or digitally - over the last decade.
Reading this thread makes me feel happy just to be able to hang out around here.
Anyway, thanks to everyone involved for starting and running this site. I don't actually game a whole lot, so I can say for sure that EN World is what keeps me involved in the hobby, and I think the mods and admins have really done a great job in developing an intelligent and polite community here.
Wow, 10 years. From my count I've been lurking since 2002 sometime. I used to spend hours just reading through various forums threads. It took me until the middle of August 2003 before I signed up to be a member. Since then though I feel like I've been a bit of a regular. Even to this day, even if I don't post as much as a couple of years ago, EN World is still one of the first sites I visit when I surf the net.
Thank you to Eric for creating EN World and Morrus for continuing to make it such a great place to come back to. To all the mods and all the other posters, thanks for making EN World an awesome community.
Here's to another 10 years (and more)!
Olaf the Stout
__________________
Currently running my group through the Shackled City Adventure Path
well I lurked for a few years here, then loged in, and I have to say this is now one of my fav sites on the web.
I wasn't here for the 3e switch, but when the 4e stuff started comeing out we had better lists of info and links then even WotC did...
so here is to 10 more years...and at least 1 more edtion
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by Remathilis
Planescape
It should be given special award to Die Vecna, Die: a module that manages to trash no less than THREE different settings (Greyhawk, Ravenloft, Planescape) in the course of one module.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Remathilis
Those of you who fretted that monsters have too many hp and fights take too long: meet the barbarian. The ULTIMATE "Lets speed this combat up, I need to whiz" class!
It was during my time working at an ISP in Boise, Idaho that I first started lurking around the site. Of course that was due to my running one of the playtest groups for 3e, which lead to other playtests for WotC, but it was the 3e one, as well as the site, that lead to some awesome opportunities for myself.
If I remember rightly, it was here that I saw word of the Open Call from Sword & Sorcery Studios, for Relics & Rituals, which is where my first published credit appears. It was also here that I saw the Open Call from Bastion Press for Critical Hits: Torn Asunder and saw the chance to do a PDF product for Ronin Arts, too. Pretty cool place and I've only touched on the professional ways it's changed my gaming life, I've not even talked about the Play by Post forums.
I guess I found this place in January of 2000. I got the 3e books for Christmas and had a rules question ("Was it a free action to reload a bow?"). Everybody was so nice that I stayed on and I've loved this place ever since.
To say that ENWorld has changed my life would be an understatement. It's one of the first places I go each morning while drinking my coffee. It's (obviously) one of the last places I go at night before I head to bed. Three times a year I organize the NC Game Days. Our next one, in October, will be the twentieth one. That's just amazing.
But it is no less amazing than the friends that I've made here. Through the NC Game Days and GenCon I have become friends with people I'd never have known had it not been for ENWorld. Just tonight I arrived home from a trip where I got to see at least three other members of the site. And a bit over a month ago my whole family did an 11 day road trip up the east coast to DC, New York and Boston. Who did we stay with and visit? You guessed it, it was all ENWorlders.
To the members here, you have provided me with countless hours of entertainment and information. You've made my games better and I hope that I've returned the favor once in a while. Thanks for being the lifeblood of the site.
And to my fellow moderators, you are all exemplary people whom I'm happy to call friends. All of you do a thankless job and you certainly do it better than me most of the time. Even Piratecat who somehow finds time to be a great admin despite the fact that he's so busy texting me about boobs.
Eric, you started an amazing thing and you should be very proud. One of my few regrets associated with ENWorld is never having met you in person. One of these days, mister...
Unfortunately, dragons do not seem to advance an age category upon reaching ten year of age.
*sigh*
The opportunities missed; for really bad jokes.
__________________ -Kaodi
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.
-Iago, Shakespeare's Othello, Act III. Scene III. Lines 180-186.
Linear Mode
And yet another word from our sponsors
