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I like trancejeremy's reason. However, the real reason dwarves don't like magic is because elves do. Prancy little nature-loving twits, ruining magic for the rest of us... where's my hammer,

a painfully long post about writing. Beware! John wrote: "Commerce and Caravans" is the title, actually -- and it was picked long ago. Maybe sometime last year, even? That fits my memory. You first told me the idea at the GAMA Trade Show, so you definitely had it picked out in the 1st quarter...

DOH! <crumple crumple throw in trash> <skritch skritch start proposal all over again> sigh,

Actually, the "Wizards owns White Wolf" myth started several Gen Cons ago, when -- in a night of drunken revelry -- Clark Peterson stood up on a table and proclaimed, "YO! WIZAHDS! WE OWNZ YOUSE!" He then proceeded to play a creditable version of "Lady of Spain" on Peter Adkison's head, and an...

Damn, I'd love to have a game store on Cape Cod. Any idea how available and how expensive retail space is? not quite serious, but not joking,

Yes. Hey, you're the one who's pointing out you don't want to wait weeks to get this. What that sounds like to me is, "I want this now!" cheers,

That's true as far as it goes... ... but you're missing something. The Task DC is not the Item Creation DC. The Task DC is a number representing the general difficulty of accomplishing the task you want the item to do, and it's only used to define the market value of the item. If you check p...

YAY! I've been holding back the identity of Love & War for what feels like months, and I'm sure I've sounded like a real doofus saying things like, "...and then there's this cool book by Keith Baker called Crime & Punishment and after that there's oh I can't tell you about that because it's...

The mockup I saw at the GAMA Trade Show back in March was actually a card game; they may have changed it since then but that was my understanding of it at the time. What I saw was basically D&D-with-cards, not so different from Dungeoneer or Hack! or the other D&D-with-cards games that seem to...

Glad you liked it. :) Me, I'm tickled pink by Samwise Didier's illustrations of it -- he added some features of which I heartily approve. :D

I don't know. :) What I do know is that I try to figure out what someone who has come into my store really wants. Is it cheap games? Instant gratification? Guidance in choosing products? Something else? Then I try to figure out if there's some way I can make a profit getting it for them. If...

My local store (I'm friends with the owners) gets really upset with publishers who offer special deals at Cons This kind of discussion is a real tar baby for store owners, but I'll risk sticking myself with one thought. Convention sales per se don't bother me. I usually gain more business...

Oddly enough, I've been thinking much the same thing about Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe. :) On a slightly different matter, I'm perfectly happy to listen to Green Ronin's or anyone else's silver award speeches. If I can sit through the Oscars, then I can certainly handle a couple of...

The main book is primarily a player's book, so it's oriented towards individual characters -- classes, equipment, et cetera. There's some good advice on running Warcraft campaigns, but not a lot of GM-oriented rules. Siege combat and other big battle stuff is almost certainly on the way (I...

I read an interesting story about Hasbro in this week's or last week's Business Week. (It's the one with the cover story about Verizon.) Basically it's about the "new" CEO, who isn't really new -- he's been semi-running the company for years, but the Hassenfeld family member in charge has...

FWIW, everyone who's bought Warcraft from me (so far, and it's early yet) also bought Arcana Unearthed. Which says to me that they're D&D fans who like Warcraft and not the other way around.

I'm pretty damn typical. 34, married for 9 years, no kids yet but we've been collecting cats. Studied medieval English and sang a cappella in college, managed a tax accountant's office in Boston afterwards, then moved out here to Northampton to start my bookstore with my wife in 1995. We've...

... and his sushi should be looked upon with suspicion. :D But a very true saying. (I've actually spent most of the afternoon today teaching various games, and haven't gotten to play any of them. Sold a few, though. :)) I think it's also worth noting that any small business keeps you going...

Wise decision. :)

[hysterical laughter] Paychecks vary widely, not least because a fair number of game stores are spare-time hobby businesses. Among the people trying to make a living, I've heard salaries ranging from "I'm still putting money into the business and I hope it turns around soon" to a very few...