Recent content by Olaf the Stout

The Diana Jones award is a fairly prestigious RPG award. It’s actually not named after a person, but rather the Indiana Jones RPG (best to read the story about it, as I’ll likely get bits wrong).

Yeah, seems like my lack of awareness is the problem, especially for the Diana Jones award winner.

Would you say there’s more now than there was during the D20 boom? It doesn’t feel like it to me, but that could be because I’m not across it as much now and a lot of it exists only in the digital realm.

Kickstarter yes, just mainly for non-RPG stuff these days as I realised I already own a tonne of RPGs I’m not currently playing. I don’t look that much into the indie side of things due, once again, to already owning cool games I don’t play,

And I have nothing against that. I hope they all do great things. I’ve just never heard of them at all, likely because I’m out of touch with new writers and designers in the 5E space, at least compared to how across the 3.xE space I was. So it’s probably more of a reflection of me than...

I think a decade or so ago I generally was well enough informed that I’d at least heard of the people WotC or Paizo hired. I might have known about them from a Dragon or Dungeon article, or work they’d done from a 3rd party company or another RPG, but at the very least it would be a name I’d...

Ok, I think I’ve officially lost touch with the current D&D and RPG publishing space. This is the 4th appointment in a row that I’ve had to Google the person as I’d never heard from them before. I hope they do well, and hiring people much better than the usual firing we see at this time of the...

Damn, that gets worse the more I read. ☹️

Ok, I’m not across this one either. What did Raggi do?

Good guys don’t associate (and continue to associate) with people like Bledsaw. You are ultimately the company you keep.

That story doesn’t seem quite as clear cut at Bill Webb’s, but it doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence as to the type of person he is. Sigh.

Ah, cheers. I completely remember that, but I was misremembering which company was which. I thought Frog God Games was Clark Peterson and Necromancer Games was Bill Webb, when it’s the other way around. I thought Clark Peterson had done something I’d missed.

Got more info I this? I must have missed it.

Mike’s maps are gorgeous. I bought digital copies of the regional maps for Princes of the Apocalypse, Tomb of Annihilation and of the Sword Coast and printed them blown up on vinyl. Worked great.

That’s a super useful layout.