2 Years of Eric Noah + 8 Years of Morrus = 10 years of EN World!

[Dragonhelm]

Congrats to everyone at EN World from the Dragonlance Nexus!

 

[WanderingMonster]

Congrats ENWorld!

 

[garyh]

Edit: And if you're looking for the infancy of the way we currently view EN World, check this out: Baby ENW

Not a single Play By Post forum! Truly those were primitive days!

Thanks to everyone involved for a great community. And the PbP forums in particular have been the source of a of fun over the years at times live groups weren't possible for one reason or another.

 

[Hussar]

Congrats all. Excellent and superb work.

 

[Mr. Wilson]

As someone who lurked for a couple years prior to joining (and as someone who still mostly lurks), I'd like to congratulate the Powers that Be for running a fantastic ship.

Grats on turning 10.

 

[Gulla]

My, it's been a long time. Eric's original site actually got me back to D&D (the red and blue book was long ago) with 3ed. And still (with all campaigns currently in other systems) this is a friendly stop on the weekly treks in cyberspace.

Keep it up for another 10 years!

 

[jaerdaph]

I was too Narrativist/Serious Gamer/Railroady and Russ was too Gamist/Hardcore Gamer/Sandboxy. Plus other lingo!

Eh - you're both "too anime plays like a board game" for me.

 

[EricNoah]

Hmmm...mysterious!

Oh, not so mysterious - I'm sure I've discussed this in the past ... there was no one source of anonymous tips, really. They came in from a bunch of people and there wasn't really a pattern, other than maybe one guy who did a little more than the others (this guy's forte was correcting my erroneous assumptions or faulty info - never gave away any truly juicy stuff).

I can only remember two or three cases where any kind of scoop, anonymous or not, got me in any kind of trouble:

1) The rumor that the setting for the Oriental Adventures rulebook would be L5R's Rokugan. This came from a genuine anonymous scooper I had never heard of before and never heard from again. WotC asked me to take that one down and even agreed to grant me some kind of exclusive info/interview if I revealed the scooper's name, but I had already deleted the e-mail and didn't remember. Plus I pointed out that pulling the story would just make it even more suspicious and call attention to it, so we agreed I would leave it up but not post about that topic any more.

2) Someone really did break their NDA when they gave me a somewhat juicy and somewhat ranty scoop about the new Forgotten Realms setting rules. It was the first big scoop on FR and it immediately cast the whole thing in a pretty negative light. I agreed that I would not post about that from NDA-breaking scoopers any more as I could see the point about not poisoning people on something before it was in a final form.

3) Skuuuuuurge! This was a scoop I pulled directly from WotC's Dungeon Magazine web page. It had some awesome stat blocks for a troll barbarian and a human rogue, stuff we had never seen before. And then I was asked to take it down, and they took it down from their own site. Apparently someone had posted something they weren't supposed to post. That was a heartbreaker!

I got lots of NDA-breaking stuff over that first year or so and I often had to decide "oops, this is a little too close to breaking faith with WotC" so I did hold some stuff back. But I am happy to say that no one ever fed me really significant chunks of the game ahead of time - I was in the dark almost as much as any other fan. We were all in this together.

 

[Clefton Twain]

Wow

I lurk a lot, but I'm still here. I can't believe 10 years have gone by! Amazing.

--CT

 

[qstor]

I didn't join till 2002. Thanks to Eric and Russ for all their work. One of my favorite things was the 3e conversion archives for all of the 1e and 2e TSR mods. I'm not sure if that's still around.

Oh and the Creature Catalog. Those two are fantastic!

Mike