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Brian, Hate to say it, but nobody is likely to respond here. Write a detailed proposal and send it off to the publishers you think would be interested. Frankly, I would write the proposal before doing more work on the book. Find a place interested in the book before you spend a huge amount of...

Nightfall, don't get me wrong. I am still watching Angel this season. I am interested in what they are going to do with it tomorrow night. I just think that the season started out fairly strong and is tapering off quickly. Jury is still out. Buffy, well, first, it is at a bad time for my wife...

I am pretty disappointed with the way Angel is going so far this season. As soon as Connor "rescues" Cordy I turned to my wife and say "If they pull out some sort of damned oedipus complex bs this will get old really, really fast." This was before the teasers for the next show. I will wait and...

In addition to Psion's comments I would add one thing. Distribution. Monkey God products are more widely available now (I have actually seen 1 or 2 in my local game store) but for whatever reason I just haven't seen them in stores. The majority of the d20 companies making people's "top 5" or...

Re: Ceasar's Wife. . . . I happen to be a freelancer working for Necromancer Games. I have found Clark and Bill to be two of the most ethical and easy to work with individuals in the business. The idea that they should change the name on a project because their first choice author bailed on...

If you really want to find out if a publisher is interested you need to send proposals to various publishers describing the product(s), the target audience, and the size of the target audience. A forum, even this one, is not going to get you answers to questions like this (at least not most of...

Strangely, CRPGs and "Pen and Paper" RPGs really don't appear to alter each other's sales. While some people do play both, a vast majority of computer gamers/console gamers do not bother with DnD. Could the millions of sales of the Baldur's Gate CRPG have driven a few sales of DnD material...

Darn it Alan, I just laughed soda through my nose. That hurts! Patrick

Think about it this way, what do the monsters/bad guys do when they lose? They get replaced sorta ... Bad luck goes both ways when you roll in the open. Last Saturday night in a Scarred Lands campaign our party got lucky when entering a Rat-man warren. Through their bad luck, and our good luck...

Rather than being overly emotional think about this. Sometimes if a company doesn't make layoffs they will go out of business, then EVERYONE is out of a job. Have you ever run a business? I have. My wife has. The decisions are much tougher and more painful for managers than anyone likes to...

I am sorry, but the general gaming public isn't going to care who the author is. Yes, they do good work, but that only makes an impact with the people that actually know and recognize the names. Just a guess, but I would say that Monte Cook's Malhavok Press' best selling adventure or supplement...

It was no secret that writing ability was going to be a major factor in judging. How could it not be? Do you think they are going to spend $120,000 (160,000 really) on a setting that would have to be re-written? I am quite certain that the settings selected were both well-written and possessing...

You are probably correct, but I guessing that even if they do send out a mass email, many people won't have included their email addresses (some might not even have them). I don't think they are going to spend the extra money to send out all that mail. I could be wrong. All I am trying to say...

Does anyone get off on the irony of someone posting about someone they know nothing about? Clark works his ass off. The guy receives as many as 150 emails a day, works a full-time job, and then works into the wee hours on Necromancer Games. Then he does his best to provide his opinions on...

Actually, email is not free. It is definitely not free if you have to pay someone to go through 11,000 pieces of paper individually typing in email addresses. I am fairly certain "winners" will be notified and everyone else will simply see/hear about a message posted on the WotC website saying...

Re: eh... I believe a majority of d20 companies have done a much better job of being both 3e rules compliant and SRD/OGL compliant. Just about every company has made errors in one spot or another, but experience in these matters helps a great deal. Several companies now have "rules gurus"...

That may be true. Then again, you include that company's name in your .sig and therefore act as a representative of that company when you post. When you talk about taking people in a back alley and beating them with a stick, it doesn't reflect well on either you or the company you represent...

I am not trying to stir the hornet's nest, but I really think that most of this is much ado about nothing. I don't see why their advertisement needs to include "and like all D20 products" as they have specifically paid fees to use the DnD logo and aren't really "D20" when it comes right down to...

No, not yet. I am completely unconcerned about the weapons though. Several d20 sources for firearms are already available and those can be used if you need them. Please give the authors of whichever source you use credit ofcourse. Patrick

Yeah, some companies get rather upset if you give them a 3. I don't write many reviews any more, now that I have writing jobs with a few different publishers it doesn't quite seem right. I generally have a policy that if something is REALLY bad, someone else is going to trash it. My ego is such...