Death of a Friend (Commentary on Kargatane Website)

[MrFilthyIke]

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Oh, how do we get to become Trolls? That regeneration bit would be handy instead of insurance co-payments...

 

[pogre]

Your a Troll

I agree with Tom - you should change the title to indicate that this post is related to a D&D website.

 

[Imperialus]

"Creating by committee" just strikes me as extremely difficult. I bet Russ could weigh in on this topic with quite a bit of experience vis a vis Daemonforge.

Well I'm not Russ but I started with Daemonforge back before he did and I can assure you it was an insanely difficult project which is in a large part why it died and I just compleated it on my own. Constantly dealing with the comeings and goings of people who commit to compleateing something then disappear, people showing up with ideas that they want integrated because they fit their own pet ideal of what D&D is like.

For example: Daemonforge was created as an epic battleground between archons demons and devils. Then one day someone comes along with a writeup talking about how dragons have all flown away out to the islands and refuse to take part in mortal affairs anymore and sends in stats for some wierd half draconic race of servents he created. After that we got a plethora of submissions from a guy who had his heart set on createing a psionic stronghold, dispite the fact that we stated from the outset that we wanted Daemonforge playable with the core rules. Parts of the world such as Egran and the Forge had more information written about them than you could shake a stick at, while others like the Shattered Isles were proposed, worked into the campaign and then abandoned by their creators.

It really just wasn't worth the headache and I ended up abandoning the project after about a year.

 

[Tom Cashel]

I agree with Tom - you should change the title to indicate that this post is related to a D&D website.

Hey, Mike:

 

[Henry]

Now that Michael has made his thread topic clearer, and Tom has not made any further comment, let's agree to a cease-fire, shall we?

EDIT - Now that Tom HAS MADE his comments...


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Being one who has rarely visited and almost never used the Kargatane site, I have to say that they did do a good job, and their energy and inspiration was in my opinion necessary to the following-through with the Arthaus/Ravenloft 3E books; without that Web site, WotC and White Wolf might have never known just how much interest there was in keeping Ravenloft alive in the 2000's.

Fan websites are worthwhile, even if your immediate circle don't think so. The number of times I've scoured the Forgotten Realms web sites recently, looking for game in inspiration and some "pseudo-official" info I could drop into my game, I've lost count. Same with other sites, even if it's just your own homebrew - with the hundreds of thousands of gamers prowling the internet, someone is going to find use out of it, even if they don't take the time to tell you.

 

[Tom Cashel]

Now that Michael has made his thread topic clearer...

(Note: it hasn't been changed.)

 

[Henry]

I thought that the "Commentary" part was added - my mistake. But even so, it seems clear enough to me.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I, too, thought this was a thread about a person until I opened it. Misleading titles are not terribly helpful.

Cheers

 

[diaglo]

That would be, "Congratulations Tom, You're a troll".

at least he spelled Congrats right.

yeah, i too thought he was talking about a person.

sad to see the website go. but not unexpected.

 

[Henry]

Hope you don't mind, Michael, but I altered the thread title slightly.

How's that?