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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9102607" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Hardly... look up «Leyden Jar». Perfectly captures lightning in a bottle.At least until one touches it.Likewise, many creators routinely produce hit after hit...Truth is, most successful creatives in history are historical not because they had one big hit, but because they continued to make multiple successful creations, time and time again...<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Music: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Solieri (despite the misportrayal in Amadeus), Elvis, Nat King Cole, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Madonna Louise Chicone, John Williams, Lerner & Lowe... </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Literature: Steven King, Danielle Steele, William Shakespear, Larry Niven, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, HPL, AC Doyle, ER Burroughs, Jules Verne, Emily Dickenson, EE Cumings, Jane Eyre, </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">TV: Steven J Canel, Donald Paul Bellisario, Alfred Hitchcock, Gene Roddenberry, Gene L. Coon. Lucille Ball/Desilu Studios, Mary Tyler Moore (she was the creator of MTM productions, which had a bunch of hits)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Movies: Steven King, George Lucas, Alfred Hitchcock, Buzby Berkely, Lucille Ball</li> </ul>Tabletop Games: GDW - a studio putting out a product or two a month for a period of over 20 years, each member putting out something new monthly and contributing on several others. The big names? Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, Loren K. Wiseman, Tim Brown, David Nilson... only a couple flubbed lines, but their best known games have editions either recently or currently in print.Monte Cook, likewise, from D&D 3E, Arcana Unearthed, Numenara, and that stupidly expensive follow-on...Steve Jackson Games. Steve himself has dozens of credits, the most notable being The Fantasy Trip, GURPS, Car Wars, Munchkin, Isaac Asimov's Star Traders, Globbo, Illuminatis....The Flying Buffalo crew: a dozen T&T solo adventures each from Bear, Ken, and Steve. More coming, under the Monsters! Monsters! brand. And a game with a solid fanbase since 1975.The UK Steve Jackson and his writing partner Ian Livingston - hit adventure after hit adventure - Fighting Fantasy. Now, others are writing for them. Oh, and scientifically? Lightning usually strikes the same spot multiple times - it's just static electric flow. And if the ground is higher at one spot, that spot gets hit repeatedly.Colville et al have shown their creative prowess repeatedly; even if I don't care for their show, I can appreciate their success.  They've been established as creators, the question now is only, "Can they launch this successfully?" And it looks like they can. They've a line of successful 5E splats, multiple successful kickstarters, even during the lockdowns,</blockquote>

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