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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troll Lord" data-source="post: 104411" data-attributes="member: 1163">TLG/Jeff IbachWaylander,sorry if this rambles, i only just cracked my first dr. pepper today and its already NOON!I was wondering last night as I put the press release together if there might be some negative feed back because Jeff has consistantly reviewed our products and given them at least the thumbs up. (those I've sent him at any rate, I'm horribly remiss in getting my products out to reviewers, just ask Simon from the enboards, I sent him the Codex (to Ireland) via Ground mail (like a moron), and it still hasn't arrived, grumble mumble firth) But trust me that we did not bring Jeff on board because of these reviews.  We brought Jeff on board through an entirely different avanue (as you can see I need a %@^&# editor because I can't figure out how to spell avenue).As you may or may not know we lost Mac Golden about 5 months ago.  Mac was our rules guru, Davis and I wrote most of the material and Mac (alongside two troops of playtesters) made certain it was solid 3e.  Well, when Mac left I scooped up the job.  That alongside managing the business and writing has proven way too much.  (first play test of Heart of Glass the playtesters  acutally laughed at how weak most of the vampires were).  So we had been discussing the idea for some time, hiring a mechanics editor that is.Jeff came to mind for several reasons.  One we had a talking relationship, this because he alerted me to some negative feed back some of our d20 rules/stats/blocks and so forth were getting over at MonteCooks boards.  After entering the debate I realized these gamers had some legit complaints about some of the NPCs and what not which in turn spooked me for the 3e material in Gygax's upcoming Canting Crew and my own Heart of Glass.  I began bouncing things off of Jeff at this point.  This just reinforced the whole idea.Now, long story even longer, if you have been to our website recently you would have noticed that we have an open apology to WoTC for some non OGL material put in Gaxmoor (this was not a good thing).  This major snafu just further reinforced the fact we needed a technical editor and Jeff had already proven himself in that capacity.I learned that he did work for AEG so we brought him on board.  He is not a "full time employee" but rather a work for hire.  We pay him per job and the job varies depending on the size.  Jeff is not a content editor.  TLG's material is edited by two outside folk (who are also work for hire) but Jeff is the man in line for mechanics, this way I can get back to doing what I do best, writing usably settings/adventure for your campaigns and developing Erde and he can cover my ass.I can see how the whole thing seems inappropriate but I assure you it had nothing to do with the reviews . . . he only gave Dogs of War a 3 by the by . . . now if he had given it a 5 we may have brought him on full time  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Just kidding.TLGSteve</blockquote>

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