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I don't know about the others, but my wife wouldn't approve of that sort of thing.

Hunter has over 25 preview articles, a forum and a direct link to the order form on the front page. Compare with D&D, whose release schedule is three clicks deep from the home page and whose books cannot apparently, be ordered from the site. (Kind of puts your "I can't tell when it's coming...

The forums are busier than virtually every gaming site except for this one, WotC's boards and RPGNet. As for "organization" -- what the are you talking about? It uses the same format as virtually every other forum. Yeah, the entire company goes to the con, so when the site has problems, they...

You are not my customer. I'm a guy on the Internet and so are you. White Wolf is my customer. You are White Wolf's customer. But let me digress. In addition to the work I do for online and offline gaming I also work in marketing. If WW were like certain other game companies, its employees...

True dat. I post there quite often, actually. Lots of us do. Are you sure you took a good look? For one thing, White Wolf paying a writer means that the writer makes more than lunch money. It also means that production gets paid too. These are not insignificant costs. That said, WW could...

It's rather simpler than that. Cam communications generally take place over email, as they have since the club's inception. LARP is less popular than it was, but this is true for independent games as well.

I usually purchase game books to either use for play or for professional reasons. Occasionally I stretch "professional reasons," but even then, anything I get has at least an indirect effect on what I write, design or play.

Good on you for talking about it, John. There are a lot of companies with unrealistic business models. They don't know the scale of things, or they assume some other source of cashflow is going to happen. In Dog Soul's case, I suspect the latter, because the company was also did B2B work. I...

D&D magic doesn't really evolve like real technology. If the real world was like D&D, the history of PCs would involve digging them up, fully formed from the ground after getting really good at dowsing for them. Now, there are many inventive things that can be done with these dowsed PCs, but...

No, that's not how he does it at all. Exploring every case cited in equal detail would make Guns, Germs and Steel the size of a three foot high filing cabinet, which is not marketable for a popular audience. There have been many excellent discussions about how the book glosses over contrasting...

No. Clerical history is particularly illustrative of this. One of the primary figures in the Christianization of the British Isles was from Africa. Between the Church and European presence/colonization in the Levant, this assumption . . . is not a great assumption. Maurice's name can be...

The reality is that medieval types did not think of race the way we do and did not pay much attention to it. Nationality and religion was far more important. These things are *far* more important to the period than skin tone distribution. If you play fast and loose with those, any pretenses to...

St. Maurice wasn't considered an exotic foreigner. He's dressed that way because the convention was to dress militant saints in arms from the artist's period. He was the commander of a Roman Legion. His appearance comes from the fact that he's been assumed to be of that ethnicity from at least...

If you are consistent, there's not much point in an analogue without Christianity, either. The inventiveness required to make something medieval Europe-like appear without it is at least equal to the inventiveness required to tweak demographics. That'd be the place where legends have less-pale...

This would be because you face systematic discrimination now because the social relationships in your country have been altered to your disadvantage, because you're descended from slaves, right?

Here's the thing: * The quote that won the thread, won the thread. * Even if you dismiss that, there are many, many instances where less-pale folks traveled to and lived throughout much of Europe -- more than is commonly believed, it seems. Plus of course, the medieval European cultural sphere...

It's wrong for any gamer *not* to love this quote.

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This is as it should be. The Avatar Storm is really the only thing that was there because of the storyline. There was some flavourtext about Paradox changing, but 2e Paradox was far more severe -- it forced you to wing it, because if you used the rules as written Paradox either did nothing or...