Recent content by Spike Y Jones

This [attracting gamers to the ceremony] has been a goal of the Origins Awards for years and no matter what anyone tried it never seemed to work. I think the reason is that, basically, awards ceremonies are boring. They're interesting to the people who are up for awards, and maybe their wives...

And one of the benefits of D20: If your submission is rejected for this book, odds are good you'll be able to find another paying venue for it down the road. Spike Y Jones

Hey, Bill, long time no hear! I almost didn't make the deadline myself; had to cut back on nonessentials like sleep in the stretch. As for selling my PC, he ended up in a good home, adjacent to one of my wife's PCs, in Atlas Games' Uncommon Character. Spike Y Jones, the long-haired...

Selling Your PC's Name I'd wanted to say something about this before, but didn't get around to it. If you put the name of a favourite character into a spell name that is then sold to a publisher, the character doesn't become the property of the publisher, just his name; you can still use the...

Steve's lucky this was an armour and weapons book, so he was spared the Flying Gateleg Table that's sitting in my "have yet to find a publisher for" files. Spike Y Jones

We wanted to give the editor a workout. Spike Y Jones

For instance, my single submission included 37 new qualities and items. Spike Y Jones, over-achiever

The Village of Briarton See above. Spike Y Jones

Village of Briarton Sorry for the repeats; they were posted while the forums were having their troubles yesterday and each time my computer told me that I hadn't managed to get through. Spike Y Jones

Village of Briarton It's odd you should say this. I just drew up a chart of links between the various NPCs in the book, and of the 52 named NPCs, 49 of them have one or more links to other named NPCs explicitly mentioned in the text. Of the remaining three, one is described as an outsider...

Alongside Roger E. Moore no less. Thanks! Spike Y Jones, who'd list Robin D. Laws, James Wallis, Robert "Doc" Cross, Pat Sweeney, and S. John Ross

In Green Ronin's upcoming Corwyl: Village of the Wood Elves the authors (Christina Stiles and Pat Sweeney) made the assumption that an average villager elf in the same stage of life as an average human villager has only a few more levels; sure he's had more time to do things, but with the...

Thanks for the kind words on Testament and GURPS Egypt, all. For myself, I'd recommend Testament for a fantasy campaign and GURPS Egypt for a historical one, and if your tastes are inbetween, then whichever is closer. I'd also recommend the Desert series of AD&D modules for a fantastic Egypt...

Re: Re: Re: I just got my New Testament! I may be jealous, but I'm not upset to have the book sell well. :-) Spike Y Jones, editor, Testament

Thanks. Spike Y Jones, editor, Testament, jealous because he couldn't pick up a comp copy of the book at Origins since GR sold out at the booth