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Heh heh...I'm not quite sure how you mean it when you wrote that you're only 60% sure you know who I am, so permit me the luxury of a minor hijack here, and do a thumbnail: "Real name's John Terra, I live in NH, and I'm 46. Got started doing gaming writing in 1986 with a Dragon article called...

Wow. Thanks! I'm delighted you liked them! :-) To Diaglo and Francisca: Ed Stark is really good people too. Matter of fact, the only reason I didn't include him in my list of cool people at TSR is that I actually began dealing with him when he worked at West End Games. He was one of the cool...

Yes! YES! Monte, you hit the nail RIGHT on the head!!! "Everyone from the middle managers on down were good people." That's EXACTLY the case, I found. I recall working with Zeb Cook, Bruce Heard, Roger Moore, Karen Boomgarden, Harold Johnson, Anne Brown, to name a few...all of them really really...

:::overheard one half-orc insulting another::: "aaaaaaaah, yer mother was an elven beauty queen!"

All I can say is I'm glad I didn't have my Diet Coke can raised to my lips when I read this. Egad, I think you broke me!!!! I can see it now... R'lyengerie, concealing the Secrets Man Was Not Meant To Know. Now available with the Gnarly Mask of Hotep!

You are absolutely right on the money. Most of it was inflated and unrealistic VC expectations. The first dot-com I was in had a VC who thought that he'd see millions of dollars' worth of returns on his investement. Every month. Starting with the month after he made his initial investment. Of...

Hey Warbringer...how many dot-coms were you in? As you can tell, I was in two of 'em....

We never had pink slip parties. We walked into work one Monday morning, and were told there would be a meeting in about an hour. At the meeting, we were told that the VCs (Venture Capitalists) were withdrawing their funding, and that the doors were closing that Friday. No severence packages...

Ahhh...just back from lunch. Yum. Deep dish pizza. Ok, now to the buisness at hand. Sean: No, I didn't hear about that 1996 layoff. That's horrendous! Was that around the same time as the whole "everything's going to heck and we can't pay anyone to print the stuff?" Because, yeah, towards the...

I love MLB. Even the changes they've made have been good ones. I've bought each year's version starting with the first one (2000). My oldest son and I have been going head-to-head with our teams over the last few years, and it's a total blast. You really do feel like you're managing a team. In...

It was actually DURING the Lorraine years....I started writing freelance in 1986, with Roger Moore being a big supporter of mine...Worked with Bruce Heard and Harold Johnson for years, right up until things turned to crap, what, 1998 or so? Whenever TSR went under and they couldn't pay the...

Fascinating, QD....my wife's bought me something for Christmas that apparently is: a. Artistic b. Functional c. Blatantly Lovecraftian All that she'll say is that she wants to make sure the digital camera is handy to capture my expression when I see it! Rel and JD: Having a spouse that "gets...

I just hope MLB Showdown never goes away. I love that CCG!

He shoots, he scores!!!!!! Well said. All I can add is this..."Devils and Demons would be removed from the books because they're contrary to family values. And yet, there would definitely be some rather dubious "cheesecake" stuck in the product.

My experiences in the Great Dot-Com Crash of 2000 have taught me that holiday layofss suck major butt, regardless of the severence package. Nothing can replace the peace of mind of knowing you have a steady income coming in. My own experiences with Hasbro/WotC vs TSR have shown me that...

Paladin, definitely.

My gimmicks: 1.There's always one certified nutcase running around...a crazed hermit, a zany gnome...an eccentric alchemist... 2. A dive tavern called The Boring Pig. 3. One real nice, decent inn for the PCs to rest their heads. 4. There's no such thing as a generic "plus-something" melee...

Especially if we're talking about the vintage Hamburglar, who looked like a were-rat and spoke backward-masked Satanic drivel. :eek: And, apologies to everyone who thought the vanilla shake line was just a tad over the line. :) Especially big apologies to any who may have been drinking a...

Some elves are arrogant, sure. Others are merely quiet and contemplative. Our Forgotten Realms party has a pair of Wood Elf Rangers, and they're the quiet, tracking, hell-on-wheels-with-a-longbow type of elves. :) And it's just their luck that the party is adventuring in and around the Nether...

I played T2K for a while (Corporal Jamie MacTavish of Her Majesty's Army....he could scrounge successfully for engine parts in the Arctic, and fix just about anything put in front of him!)....One of the things I learned was that communities which manage to exist in the post-nuclear mess of 2000...