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<blockquote data-quote="grodog" data-source="post: 4871070" data-attributes="member: 1613"><p>I agree that the Acaeum site members are not coming out against BGG because they think the Acaeum should be/is the only source of RPG data on the net; from my reading, they're saying that they've had experience with the local politics, levels of detail, and general approach to games descriptions at BGG, and that the BGG approaches to how they handle the indexed/described content don't really apply as well to RPGs in the same way that they do to board/war games. And the folks there know that there are several excellent resources for RPG researchers out there, many more detailed and broader in scope than the Acaeum, including (from most- to least-broadly focused):</p><p></p><p>- The Tome of Treasures @ <a href="http://www.tomeoftreasures.com/" target="_blank">http://www.tomeoftreasures.com/</a> and <a href="http://www.tomeoftreasures.com/forum/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.tomeoftreasures.com/forum/index.php</a> (a pretty comprehensive gaming site/forum, with core focuses on D&D, other RPGs, magazines and fanzines, wargames, and other ephemera like licensed toys, etc.)</p><p></p><p>- The TSR Archive @ <a href="http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/" target="_blank">http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/</a> (a broad tracking of D&D across all editions, including third party materials from generic 1e/d20/OGL publishers)</p><p></p><p>- AfterGlow2 @ <a href="http://www.afterglow2.com/" target="_blank">http://www.afterglow2.com/</a> which is itself inspired by Matthias Bok's <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/afterglo/rpg/nontsr.html" target="_blank">original afterglo site</a>, now only available via the Internet Achive; the updated site focuses on non-TSR/generic D&D publications by OD&D/1e/2e "third party" publishers</p><p></p><p>All of these resources, in turn, owe a great deal of initial inspiration and research footwork to Lawrence Schick's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heroic-Worlds-History-Guide-Playing/dp/0879756535/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248144843&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Heroic Worlds</a>, which is the first really comprehensive effort to catalog the RPG industry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grodog, post: 4871070, member: 1613"] I agree that the Acaeum site members are not coming out against BGG because they think the Acaeum should be/is the only source of RPG data on the net; from my reading, they're saying that they've had experience with the local politics, levels of detail, and general approach to games descriptions at BGG, and that the BGG approaches to how they handle the indexed/described content don't really apply as well to RPGs in the same way that they do to board/war games. And the folks there know that there are several excellent resources for RPG researchers out there, many more detailed and broader in scope than the Acaeum, including (from most- to least-broadly focused): - The Tome of Treasures @ [url]http://www.tomeoftreasures.com/[/url] and [url]http://www.tomeoftreasures.com/forum/index.php[/url] (a pretty comprehensive gaming site/forum, with core focuses on D&D, other RPGs, magazines and fanzines, wargames, and other ephemera like licensed toys, etc.) - The TSR Archive @ [url]http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/[/url] (a broad tracking of D&D across all editions, including third party materials from generic 1e/d20/OGL publishers) - AfterGlow2 @ [url]http://www.afterglow2.com/[/url] which is itself inspired by Matthias Bok's [URL="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/afterglo/rpg/nontsr.html"]original afterglo site[/URL], now only available via the Internet Achive; the updated site focuses on non-TSR/generic D&D publications by OD&D/1e/2e "third party" publishers All of these resources, in turn, owe a great deal of initial inspiration and research footwork to Lawrence Schick's [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Heroic-Worlds-History-Guide-Playing/dp/0879756535/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248144843&sr=8-1"]Heroic Worlds[/URL], which is the first really comprehensive effort to catalog the RPG industry. [/QUOTE]
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