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I'll make you a deal. You leave people who don't want to engage with you alone, and I'll keep doing whatever I can to improve the community however I can through words and actions that promote better interaction and respect, whenever I can. I look forward to another year of new creators and...

Kiel, Just between me and you, nobody ever deserves to get sucked into that vortex of bigotry and hate. Nobody deserves to be judged in this community for their gender, orientation, class, status, race, religion, disability, or politics. We don't have to agree on anything for us to respect the...

I'm glad we agree on this. Cheers, Cam

You are literally describing the history of this business. We all start as fans. We are all inspired by the hard work and sacrifices of those who come before us. We all make spectacular mistakes and occasionally create spectacular things. I wish you'd see that as something we all have in common...

Setting aside for the moment that you don't appear to know as much about this business as you think, it really doesn't matter to the fans if one person puts food on their family's table from publishing a book or fifty. Awards are a recognition of a book's popularity and awareness among the fan...

Exactly. Folks would be shocked (shocked!) to find out that without successful crowdfunding campaigns and the hard work of lots of freelancers, 90% of game publishers in the RPG business wouldn't be producing games at all. The gap between "dude who does it all by himself and publishes PDFs on...

The best game prep tools you have are your players' character sheets. Everything on them is some form of communication to you as GM about what and how the player wants to do things in the campaign. What sorts of skills do they want to use? What sort of approach are they interested in? What...

One thing that HAS been proven out based on information collected from a lot of publishers is that there are diminishing returns on supplements and sourcebooks compared to core books or core sets. Much of that can be intuited from the target audience, too - books that are only useful to GMs...

Nobody in this business is rich. In fact, this is why James' success is notable and why the claim that he is no longer indie is so common to many gamers - he's able to hire freelancers and artists and cartographers and layout and carry out marketing in the form of hardcover books to be given...

Also: hooray for Best Writing and Best Production Values nods for Unknown Armies! We're all very happy to be recognized for that here at tiny little Atlas Games.

You could fill entire threads with hundreds of posts of people arguing about the definition of "indie." Instead, it's possibly better to suggest that James has had remarkable mainstream success with LOTFP and his published backlist is on shelves alongside products put out by many other...

All five stretch goals unlocked! Get all of them AND the Game Handbook and the System Reference for $80! Cheers, Cam

MWP did pretty dang well for a while. Fantasy Flight is managing its licenses smartly. Cheers, Cam

Good stuff again, Mike!

Happy to answer any questions you have. It's Cortex Prime now, though - this new edition is backwards compatible with all the Cortex Plus RPGs as well as the Classic Cortex RPGs, because it's a modular toolkit. I decided to throw out all of the various sub-edition titles and qualifiers and just...

I run Pendragon by the book for the most part and have no problem whatsoever with female knights. In fact, in one campaign, three players were women and all of them played women in the game, and none of them were damsels or enchantresses or whatever. My wife's knight was even a member of the...

Cortex Prime is going to be a genuine modular toolkit game system with an easy to use baseline and lots of dials and switches. Sounds like a mouthful, but you know. Cheers, Cam

It's my favorite RPG of all time. Cheers, Cam

Offering a product for free doesn't confer the right for others to use the product. There's no license or implicit permission there. Cheers, Cam

Hey Manbearcat, Fantasy Heroic's scene structure was designed to really accent the specific types of scenes seen in dungeon delving adventures, allowing GMs to plan around those types of scene rather than just make them more generic. I like the exploration roll concept, for example, as it...