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Not exactly new - I saw these in Powell's Books a few weeks ago. If you need reading glasses for small print, grab your glasses - they are scaled down. I am far more enthusiastic about the Dungeon Crawl Classics 4th Printing Softcover edition. The price is virtually the same, and its full...

There is a really, really vocal crowd of "No Spec" folk who love to jump in threads like this. You should be happy its only within the tiny RPG industry that this is being discussed. I see a lot worse in G+, deviantart, various pro 3d forums and the like.

Did you do an update or your original post? I just re-read it and found it extremely useful, and well, its been a year :-)

There could be a clause that allows for automatic assignment, or maybe if both parties agree. From the outside, we can only speculate. My experience in licensing (which is in the tech and content market, not in rpgs or books) is that, unless the licensee is bringing a whole lot to the table...

This really doesn't mean a thing. Any time I have seen a company sold like this (assuming more than just the assets are changing hands), its followed by radical change in the following 6-12 months or so - no matter how calmly people say otherwise. The buying company often wants to recoup the...

I think another take-away from this article is the competence in the book publishing industry doesn't necessarily translate to managing and shipping a software product or service.

Explaining simple market economics doesn't seem to be be enough for some people, Steve ;-) A lot of professional artists and writers work in different markets based on the benefits of those markets. The tabletop RPG market is an extremely tiny market. If you are well known and have a good...

Oh man, not Orc-bans sun glasses again!?!? :)

3D printing isn't here as a solution because 3D printing is vastly more complicated than 2D printing. To get a digital 3d model to print correctly on a 3d printer, you have to make sure its built correctly. There are some automated tools that will flight check your 3D model for this, but they...

There are a lot of insights in this article, yet I do not feel completely pandered to, so am unsatisfied ;-) Companies market and sell, and they find new ways to be better at it - they have always been that way. It has become easier and easier to figure out what people like with better metrics...

Complete with Demonic La-Z-Boy.

Ill never accept the bull-in-the-china-shop Orcus. Bring back fat, extra goaty Orcus getting his belly rubbed down by succubi while he eats pork rinds in front a TV set. That's the real Orcus...

I agree with Leatherhead on the point of books being a medium. Game manuals are definitely books. So are auto manuals. There are many kinds of media out there that are made up of components recognizable as also being a part of another medium. The old Adventure text adventure had paragraphs, and...

I pretty much wrote off psionics with 3rd edition, with all the duplications of abilities from wizards and clerics (psychic food and crystal familiars seemed silly). Psionics should be as game changing as magic user spells and cleric's whatevers; it doesn't need the same scope as the former but...

I didn't jump to any conclusion that you or he did. HPL's racism doesn't have to be a part of every conversation about his works. There are some people (and I am not accusing you of this) that seem to take a perverse pleasure of diverting any discussion of HPL's work in that direction however.

I haven't read that book. He was not so anti-Semitic later in life in that his wife was a Ukrainian Jew. What I find sort of funny is that works like The Call of Cthulhu or Shadows Over Innsmouth get quoted when there are far, far worse and direct examples. I don't think I have heard of anyone...

It is. Scholars also understand that there isn't any one final "Answer". Many historical literary works exist that have no identifiable creator, so then is it impossible to make an analysis of them? The creator stands apart except when its relevant to the inquiry - but not all inquiries. You...

Historically, academics - true scholars and scientists - judge a work on its own merits, or as a part of a body of work, and in context. The creator stands apart from that. The problem is that there's a non-scholar political sort that has already created their own political narrative, and...

Lovecraft in his personal letters and in various writings would be considered extremely racist today; how racist he'd be considered in his time, is really debatable. Don't rely solely on depictions in the media, movies, etc that take creative license to tell a story. Also, and this also goes to...

Please do not reduce people of a race/gender/sexual orientation into a stereotype, even for a frame of reference. In itself, I agree that it need not push anyone down, so long as the language used doesn't create a new frame of reference that places other games or players of other games in a...