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This actually describes a typical day working for any RPG company and that's precisely why the ENnies are valuable. They are awards you can win and feel proud to have done so. I look forward to the ceremony every year. If any of you involved with the awards have taken the cautionary comments...

D&D Warlords was the original title of the game that became Chainmail. When the first head of minis at WotC, Bob Watts, left the company, his replacement's first act was to try to cancel the game. When that didn't happen, the named changed from D&D Warlords, which the design team liked, to D&D...

For every Robin Laws there are at least 20 chuckleheads. The thing about the Origins Awards is that their story is complicated and no one likes complicated stories. They want nice easy answers instead. What happened with GAMA and by extension the OAs a couple of years ago is not easy to...

Yes, and I wrote it (with Jason Carl). The Apocalypse Stone was a deliberate attempt to get people to end their campaigns and start fresh with 3E.

It's not the reality that's important, it's the perception. Once 4E is announced, retailers, distirbutors, and fans will immediately become wary of books that come out in the lame duck period.

That was my first thought on reading Tim's post. Why tie the awards exclusively to a shrinking segment of the market? It is important to learn lessons about what happened with the Origins Awards. Unfortunately, any discussion of the OAs always brings out an endless litany of ill-informed bs by...

From my blog a couple of weeks back: "I have talked to some folks who think this might be announced as early as next month at the "D&D Experience" (the re-branded Winter Fantasy) but I really doubt that's the case. There's too much announced product in the queue and any 4E announcement is sure...

The Thieves' World Gift Set just came out a few weeks ago. For $99.95 you get a slipcase with all four books of the original line (The Thieves' World Player's Manual, Shadowspawn's Guide to Sanctuary, The Thieves' World Gazetteer, and Murder at the Vulgar Unicorn) plus a brand new 64-page...

Next month sees the release of the Mutants & Masterminds Beginner’s Guide, a 32-page product intended to teach newcomers to M&M (and to roleplaying in general) how to play the game. You can get your exclusive first look at the Beginner's Guide over on MutantsAndMasterminds.com by downloading the...

It wasn't Greg but the Chaosium team of Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis, Greg Stafford who were behind the Ghostbusters RPG. West End, the publisher, hired Chaosium to the do the design. The resulting game was not a commercial hit but it was very influential amongst RPG designers.

Bitter? No. Sad at the current state of D&D? Yes.

Luckily for us WotC is forging ahead with such cutting edge innovative titles as Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk, and a third attempt at Star Wars d20...

There is some danger (see below) but I think it can be overcome. I think when most folks see the Pirate's Guide to Freeport, they'll get the concept. Oh, indeed. We'll soon be starting a series of design diaries, art previews, and so on for the Pirate's Guide to give people of taste of the...

Charles works for the English distributor Esdevium these days.

If you can imagine this conversation going on for over a year via e-mail, you'd have a rough approximation of Green Ronin's internal debates about what to do with Freeport. With the original Freeport: The City of Adventure book long sold out and unreprintable because of the 3.0 rules it was...

No, it wouldn't because WotC made the lion's share of its profits from those books in the first 90 days of release. That's how the RPG market is these days, sad to say.

The latest of our Bleeding Edge adventures for d20 fantasy, Dirge of the Damned, is shipping now to distributors. It will be in stores next week. Bleeding Edge #4: A Dreadful Dawn is also at print and will be out next month. Bleeding Edge #3: Dirge of the Damned A d20 Fantasy Adventure for 3rd...

It's the same artifact from the DMG, we just made a physical deck of tarot-sized cards out of it. You can see pictures here: http://www.greenronin.com/catalog/grr3004

I imagine Charles was referring to the three core rulebooks here, not any D&D hardback. Based on the numbers I saw when I was at WotC and what I hear from distributors today, my educated guess would be that books like Player's Handbook II may sell 50,000 units or so while everything else save...

Back in 2002 WotC asked us if we were intersted in Dark Sun. I said sure, but that we were even more interested in Al-Qadim (that being my favorite of the 2E settings). This seemed to surprise them but they were willing to talk. This was the point when they were doing things like licensing out...