Recent content by taosecurity

💯 agree. Too many people are missing this, including Ben Riggs, per his FB post yesterday.

I like this idea. I also like that sci-fi is one of the three main genres. 👏

This x1000. "Risk" is the key point missed by many commentators. I see lawyers on both sides, but most (all?) agree that they do not know how a court would rule. That means the risk is too high for publishers, especially the smallest ones. The "chilling effect" of this license is key.

I see they are deleted from the post now. There was no way to buy them anyway, beyond the link to a third party specialist.

Thanks for the news. On the Dredd supplements, I thought EN Publishing lost the license? It looks like you can only buy those books used and not new from the publisher?

I had not seen that ESPN piece. How far we have progressed in a few decades!

TSR published 12 modules (6 for Alpha Dawn, 6 for Knight Hawks) plus an expansion (Zebulon's Guide) in 3 years. That's a pretty good run, but it ran into the Buck Rogers debacle and got the axe. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Star Frontiers in August, I joined a campaign run by Tom...

I'm thrilled to see mainstream coverage of this topic. D&D seems like UFOs -- some people are really into it, and most others have only a basic idea, and that usually involves making fun of it. I was surprised that in 2022 the author needed to explain what D&D was, and that in the replies to his...

I agree. A fair number of people are not capable of recognizing that their communication skills are lacking. Authors who recognize that they need help work with editors. Others just produce substandard offerings.