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No, it's like you already own a house, and somebody's selling other houses you don't care for. It doesn't affect you, the owner of a perfectly serviceable house, but when you talk to people who like those houses and people who are selling them, it annoys you that they boost them, or say bad...

People exactly the same hyperbole about 2nd when 3rd came out, so why wouldn't they use it again?

The Complete series was envisioned way back in the beginning of 2e as a way to add a single emphasis to the base rules set -- it was discussed this way in Dragon while 2e was still being designed. They were never supposed to be "splatbooks" in the sense that each character used a different book...

This is a difference in the structure of each system, not the amount of new rules. How many PRCs were published? How many feats? Tons and tons. The fact that they plugged in to prior definitions more tightly doesn't take away the sheer volume of stuff. This leads to the error in online...

Sure. How important do you think that was compared to playtesting and internal review? I'm not against theory at all. I'm against the 90+% of theory discussion that disguises itself as unvarnished fact when it comes from one guy who is unhappy with his gaming group but instead of telling them...

Well, this idea fails right out of the gate. Creatives in larger companies don't usually make royalties and in smaller ones, they'd be better off doing something other than game design for money. The thing that's difficult for people to accept is that there really is such a thing as...

Nice to see some love for Terminal Identity. That was my gig. Anyway, I played the hell out of Scarred Lands and I'd say Hollowfaust and Calastia are the best setting books of that series.

First answer: You don't release multiple core books. I'm sure 4e's doing it because it worked well for 3e, but I have a feeling an ever decreasing number of people will buy PHB 3, 4 and 5. Second answer: You keep full advances in supplements, where applicable, in ways that clearly reference...

For the first poster: Get HARP. It's and excellent, moderately complex (but less so than Rolemaster -- it;s kind of like RM without all of the things that make you want to punch somebody in the face when you try to make a character) FRPG. It's at HARP. Yes, maintaining a profitable game line...

I'm not being passive-aggressive or sarcastic at all. Obviously, if threads like the above are legal, then there's no reason to complain about them. If the term "spam" is discomforting, let's drop it, and call them "Threads With Marketing Objectives." Now that ENWorld is open to TWMO on...

Now that spamming General for purely marketing reasons is permissible as per http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/245987-mouse-guard-luke-gave-us-first-copy-wedding-gift.html I'd like some guidelines so as to know the right and wrong way one goes about it.

I'll ask questions about it on a less contrived thread, when someone posts one.

Well, here's the thing: I am in fact a marketing professional (though this does not cross over with my RPG work at all, FYI). I have in fact looked for blogs interested in talking about stuff, but there are limits. Offhand, I'd say they were: 1) Nobody you ask gets anything for free. 2) Nobody...

Keep in mind that it probably is a pretty good game. I own Burning Wheel and Burning Empires. Both of them are worthwhile purchases.

I have my suspicions that WotC does this with sites that have a rather higher readership volume, like AICN Tabletop. Well, I think that aside from linking to your stuff sigs, people should feel free to reply to spontaneously started threads from people who aren't getting free product or...

John, you almost never post about anything unrelated to Luke Crane games (exception: you posted about an OGL release about sharks with a similar MO, and you posted about skill challenges), you repost the same text and images across popular RPG forums and you advise other people to do this stuff...

That's what you do with social marketing. It's dishonest because it isn't being upfront with the motives for participating. Compare this with Scott Rouse. When he talks to you there are no illusions about why he's there. He's the D&D guy, representing the brand. (But if Scott posted a new...

It's the same post on (as of this time of writing) three different forums. The last link is a guide, written by him, that includes advice to do this for marketing purposes.

Spam [Mouse Guard] Luke gave us the first copy as a wedding gift! - RPGnet Forums http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=12806 Why? Well, let jenskot himself explain to you why he spams forums for marketing purposes: A.nnotate a PDF document So John, to you get paid, or is this a...

I think this is a function of your low post count. It happens all the time here.