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Hmm, you could possibly argue more? Looking up Eberron on Wikipedia it looks like WotC spent a fair amount of man hours on the whittling down of the contestants, as well as flying the final three and coaching them. If it was just one guy with a product that didn't need all of the WotC input to...

Ohh, so he would have continued to work with them post winning the competition like the consultation fee Greenwood was given? It still seems absolutely crazy, I never would have guessed there was this much money in D&D back then.

I'm not really sure that 5k in 87 was unfair at all, it sounds like an awful lot of money, but it was also before I was born. A quick Google put the average US salary in 87 at $18,426, getting almost a 3rd of a yearly salary for something you never intended to sell sounds pretty good to me. The...

There seems the notion that the harcover is the reason for the page count or something? I've seen multiple people say something to the effect of 'I'd rather have had a higher page count' but... that doesn't really make sense? Lowering things regarding the printing doesn't make extra content...

As already pointed out, no precaution is 100%, but this seems a little defeatist when you also say you ate and drank together, presumably in a public place and without masks?

It's proven to reduce spread, given that conventions have always been Petri dishes of infection ('convention crud') hosting such a large-scale event during an ongoing pandemic is risky, masks is literally the least they could do. I got covid in mid July, it was awful and I'm still dealing with...

For me it didn't really instill fear, I never really watched horror much as a kid, but I do believe it stole part of my childhood innocence and affected my emotional development.

As someone that also saw a bunch of movies way too early, I'd say it definitely harmed my development and aided in robbing me of my childhood. I agree that the internet should be heavily controlled for kids, too much potential for things to go badly.

Ghost yes, myth, debatable!

On a bike, not really, but a lot of freedom generally. Whilst I always had a bike it was used for short bike rides rather than going out with friends. I was born in 1994 and lived (still do) in a somewhat rural village in Wales. Given my village is on a steep hill, not on top of, built on the...

I have no idea if you posted in the thread earlier, but at the very least on this page you replied quoting to another user and myself. I did not start this exchange, you did. You did so by quoting when I said "Given the high turn over of fantasy novels, I wouldn't be surprised if they...

I really don't understand what the point you're trying to make here is. You replied to a conversation about Margaret Weis. You then go on about the standard pace for writing and how most people aren't like that, pointing at her (and others) as exceptions to the rule. ...What does the rule...

And yet what he said directly conflicts with the release dates of the books being discussed? R.A. Salvatore also frequently had multiple books released in the same year. So when a post presents that kind of pace as unrealistic, which is what it seemed to do, it doesn't line up with what...

This varies from author to author, and these books are written by two people. Wikipedia lists four books in the book series being talked about. The first was published in 1987, the subsequent three were all published in 1988. So either the publisher sat on the initial books for years, which...

I'd wager that it was enough money to live very well off of, but that any author that's actually worth a lot of money makes it through alternative revenue streams: Paid signings and readings Merch Movies and games JK Rowling isn't a billionaire because the books sold well, for example. I...

Besides residual payments this also assumes that they're only putting out one book per year, when it was $30k per book. Given the high turn over of fantasy novels, I wouldn't be surprised if they delivered them all in a year for a total of $90k at the time.

The tone of Raveloft is achieved through it being an inescapable place controlled overall by mysterious forces and immediately, probably by an evil character that's almost like a god in their own domain. That is not the same as just creating a horror game in other settings. Dark Sun isn't...

Whilst I'm sure that does a good showing of Greyhawk, I just don't see how that exact thing couldn't happen in any number of fantasy settings. Which is my point, there's literally nothing stopping these kind of story beats happening in a place like FR (I'm not attached to the realms, it's just...

You can argue the merits of their world, but I'm not seeing the chicken and egg problem. People like watching a group of professional voice actors play D&D, I've never heard a fan rave about the world but plenty of them are happy to talk about their favourite character. I don't think their...

Generic fantasy doesn't really need multiple setttings nowadays, FR has that covered which is why I don't see a need for GH. I would strongly argue, however, that it is popular because of how it was the original setting more than anything else. Exandria is popular because Critical Role is...