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Woah, nice. Congrats on the dean fellowship! Cool to think that a current Emersonian knows who I am! :) Go Lions!* --Erik * This is a joke. The Lions are terrible. At everything.

I liked Jonathan Tweet's OMEGA WORLD in Polyhedron years back. A nice, simple distillation of the rules and good for one-off play. --Erik

Woah. I'd never heard of this before, so I did a google search on it and your post above is the only mention of it on the internet. So, yay me (and you) for creating a google-whack. --Erik PS: I wonder if this had something to do with Dangerous Journeys? Anyone have any info on this? PPS...

Well, I like to think I made up for it by publishing PC-playable race write-ups for the giff, insectares, and scro in Dragon #339, but those Spelljammer fans have long memories.

I remember some of this stuff differently. To wit: I agree that this was a mistake, in that it turned off the folks who were most likely to be interested in a new take on Spelljammer. I chalk this one up to "lessons learned," though I still stand by Shadow of the Spider Moon and in many ways I...

I think just about every poster in this thread is going to be satisfied in one way or another. I'm nodding my head a lot and agreeing with a lot of stuff, and recognizing a lot of stuff we have said ourselves in meetings, so yeah. Right now we're juggling production schedules and contents and...

Would you be willing to put your tabletop Ptolus game up against my old tabletop Ptolus game? ;) --Erik

I am saying that if you consider "D&D" a business that includes lots of different expressions (tabletop RPG, boardgames, movies, comic books, novels, etc.), the "tabletop RPG" category is not necessarily the most profitable, or the aspect with the lowest investment. Even beyond that, "tabletop...

I have no more insight into the current workings at WotC than any member of EN World, so I have ZERO info on what Hasbro expects from Wizards of the Coast. I do know that Magic is tremendously successful and tremendously lucrative, and that in recent years Magic The Gathering Online has been a...

This was the moment that I decided to get AOL and join the TSR forums there. Folks on the old GreyTalk list (which may have even been "secret" at the time in fear of Rob Repp's lawyers) had been posting really interesting logs of the Greyhawk folder at about this time, and the ability to get a...

Two quick points. 1) It's Diamond Book Distributors, not Diamond Comics. They're owned by the same company, but one deals with bookstores and the other with specialty shops. I don't think Diamond Comics had much to do with Borders one way or the other. 2) Diamond Book Distribuors is Paizo's...

Yeah, pretty much. To the great unwashed, D&D and tabletop RPG is synonymous. I suspect more people come into the hobby because they want to play D&D (or have simply heard of D&D) than come into it because they like the idea of pretending to be a hero, or to play any other game. It's the...

Fortunately the cosmos we have outlined thus far is sufficiently diverse to include both planetary romance locales and more avant garde possibilities. To tie this sliver of the conversation back into the larger issue of campaign setting diversity, one option between the extremes of too few or...

With respect, I think you're confusing a one-sentence description of a planet in a world book, or even a two-paragraph description of same in an article in a Pathfinder AP volume with the sum total Paizo will ever do with the Red Planet, which would be a huge mistake. We're in it for the long...

I'd use those cards ASAP, personally. Might I suggest some of the fine Pathfinder books they have in stock? I certainly don't want to see them come back here! :) --Erik

Diamond does not represent Wizards of the Coast to the book trade (or to anyone, so far as I am aware), so I don't think this has anything to do with anything related to Wizards of the Coast. I mean, their book trade distributor has a LOT more business with Borders (and a lot more pull) than...

I can confirm that the report above is accurate. Diamond has halted shipments to Borders. As I understand it a lot of the big New York publishers (or, rather, their lawyers and accountants) were in a series of meetings with Borders management today that will likely decide the fate of the...

My read is that they will continue to do collector sets like the recent beholder offering, but that the "regular" sets are done. --Erik

I just happened to read Bill's latest Ampersand column (posted today) because of the news that they are no longer going to produce painted minis sets (one of the things I still regularly buy from WotC) beyond special collector sets, and noticed the text below: "Finally, I wanted to let you know...

Xechnao, I get that you would prefer to limit the terms of the discussion to the period between this moment and the announcement of Pathfinder, but my point is that Paizo's relationship with its audience, the give-and-take between creators, editors, and publishers that takes place on our...