Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Thomas Shey]

They're both monsters in the book.

The monster is pretty much the iconic example of "Hurt people hurt people."

 

[Scribe]

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Another one? Get help bro.

Or Fomoria, yes, get Fomoria.

 

[RealAlHazred]

At some point, Lee Gold (the editor of Alarums & Excursions for its entire 593-issue run) digitized back issues of the periodical and started making the current issues in PDF. She sold hardcopies and PDFs of the back issues on a website. PDFs cost $2.00. I bought several, but always toyed with the idea of offering her a lump sum, say $1,100, for all back issues of the APAzine. (At the time I thought of doing this, there were slightly 550 back issues.) I didn't end up doing it because I couldn't really afford to do that. But I never expected they'd become unavailable for purchase at any price. Every time I'm reminded of A&E, I'm newly sad that you can't get them any more. Lee was worried about making errors due to her failing eyesight, and refused to accept money for back issues.

It came up in another thread, but I don't want to derail that one with my melancholy and infinite sadness.

 

[Alzrius]

At some point, Lee Gold (the editor of Alarums & Excursions for its entire 593-issue run) digitized back issues of the periodical and started making the current issues in PDF. She sold hardcopies and PDFs of the back issues on a website. PDFs cost $2.00. I bought several, but always toyed with the idea of offering her a lump sum, say $1,100, for all back issues of the APAzine. (At the time I thought of doing this, there were slightly 550 back issues.) I didn't end up doing it because I couldn't really afford to do that. But I never expected they'd become unavailable for purchase at any price. Every time I'm reminded of A&E, I'm newly sad that you can't get them any more. Lee was worried about making errors due to her failing eyesight, and refused to accept money for back issues.

It came up in another thread, but I don't want to derail that one with my melancholy and infinite sadness.

I bought the first two dozen or so issue of A&E several years ago from her. I wish that I'd purchased more now.

 

[Mannahnin]

At some point, Lee Gold (the editor of Alarums & Excursions for its entire 593-issue run) digitized back issues of the periodical and started making the current issues in PDF. She sold hardcopies and PDFs of the back issues on a website. PDFs cost $2.00. I bought several, but always toyed with the idea of offering her a lump sum, say $1,100, for all back issues of the APAzine. (At the time I thought of doing this, there were slightly 550 back issues.) I didn't end up doing it because I couldn't really afford to do that. But I never expected they'd become unavailable for purchase at any price. Every time I'm reminded of A&E, I'm newly sad that you can't get them any more. Lee was worried about making errors due to her failing eyesight, and refused to accept money for back issues.

It came up in another thread, but I don't want to derail that one with my melancholy and infinite sadness.

Has she indeed stopped selling back issues? The website still still seems to be up, with the pricing.

ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS (updated July 2021)

You'd think that once the old ones had been scanned once to PDF, eyesight wouldn't be a limiting factor; as she could just send out PDFs.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Has she indeed stopped selling back issues? The website still still seems to be up, with the pricing.

ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS (updated July 2021)

You'd think that once the old ones had been scanned once to PDF, eyesight wouldn't be a limiting factor; as she could just send out PDFs.

Yep. I inquired after hearing about the APAzine being discontinued. The web page is maintained by Barry Gold -- once his wife stopped working on it, I imagine website maintenance became fairly low priority. And I don't blame him one bit.

 

[Thomas Shey]

At some point, Lee Gold (the editor of Alarums & Excursions for its entire 593-issue run) digitized back issues of the periodical and started making the current issues in PDF. She sold hardcopies and PDFs of the back issues on a website. PDFs cost $2.00. I bought several, but always toyed with the idea of offering her a lump sum, say $1,100, for all back issues of the APAzine. (At the time I thought of doing this, there were slightly 550 back issues.) I didn't end up doing it because I couldn't really afford to do that. But I never expected they'd become unavailable for purchase at any price. Every time I'm reminded of A&E, I'm newly sad that you can't get them any more. Lee was worried about making errors due to her failing eyesight, and refused to accept money for back issues.

It came up in another thread, but I don't want to derail that one with my melancholy and infinite sadness.

I should have gotten the digitized first few years when I could have myself, and now have some regrets of my own.

 

[RealAlHazred]

In looking through my purchases, it looks like I got the first 12, and then a year later a random selection of 12 others that had Hero System content. I guess I was planning to get one year's worth at a time; shortsighted of me considering it was still being published at the time, so I was never going to "catch up" at that rate...

 

[Mannahnin]

Their main campaigns (of which this is one) tend to run 90 minutes to two hours and up to 20 weekly episodes.

The editing of D20 also helps a lot with the viewing experience.

Yeah, I remember when Wandering DMs did their The Big Bad competitive D&D show during the pandemic, they ran roughly 4hr convention game slot-length sessions, but edited them down to ~2hr episodes to be more watchable and fast paced.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yeah, I remember when Wandering DMs did their The Big Bad competitive D&D show during the pandemic, they ran roughly 4hr convention game slot-length sessions, but edited them down to ~2hr episodes to be more watchable and fast paced.

Based on behind the scenes videos during the first season of D20's Dungeons & Drag Queens (highly recommended), it sounds like they film for three to four hours for an episode, break for lunch, and then film another three to four hours in the afternoon for a second episode.

It's a tough schedule, especially for the art team who frantically build new miniatures and scenery when NPCs who weren't planned for are introduced (as happened in Dungeons & Drag Queens).