EN World Members: D&D / D20 Bragging Rights

[EricNoah]

Ok, so I pick up the Counter Pack 2 product at GenCon, don't give it much of a look, lug it home with some other stuff, leave it lying in my office for a few days. Today I pick it up and notice on the back ... "Includes new group feats by Mark Clover of Creative Mountain Games."

I'm like, w.t.f. ?? How could I be so far out of it? I mean I know Mark fairly well. We've gamed together, we hang out at Nutkinland together, he was a mod here for a while. And yet I had no idea he'd been published. I officially suck . I mean, sure, I know EN World's Claudio Pozas did the counter art, duh, he was one of my first hosted sites. But this is ridiculous.

Other stuff like this keeps happening to me. I keep seeing familiar names all over the place -- people who were prominent scoopers back in the day are now owning d20 publishing companies, someone who maybe placed in my adventure contest is now up for an ENnie, stuff like that.

So here's your chance. 'fess up -- what have you been up to? I want to know about print and pdf work you are credited with; I'd be particularly interested to know about "professional" (i.e. paid) work.

I have a feeling there's only like 6 or 7 of the 6000 of us who haven't been published recently...

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Umm, well, I was a judge for a d20 award...

 

[Nightfall]

I'm just a mouthpiece. But some day, I'll be more.

 

[EricNoah]

Ok, and for the few of us who haven't been published, what do you think -- if you see a product out there on a shelf, and it has some work in it by Scott Greene or Claudio or someone like that who comes from "our community" does that make you want to buy the product? It totally does for me...

 

[Mouseferatu]

Well, it's no big secret, since it comes up fairly frequently, but I'm a freelance RPG writer.

To date, I've got five published author's credits for Vampire: The Masquerade, and one D20 module, called "Shadows Under Thessalaine," published by MonkeyGod Enterprises. I've got upcoming stuff in the coming months for Vampire, Dark Ages: Vampire, Mummy: The Resurrection, Scarred Lands (I wrote at least two chapters apiece for each of the three books of the Serpent Amphora trilogy of adventures), another MonkeyGod module, and a complete self-contained campaign setting which we just announced here and at GenCon.

Hey, you asked...

 

[RangerWickett]

Well, I wrote two prestige classes for FDP's Counter Collection II. This is in addition to Wild Spellcraft (pdf with Natural 20 Press, print with Mystic Eye Games), Tournaments, Fairs, & Taverns (pdf with Natural 20 Press, upcoming print with MEG), and Four-Color to Fantasy. Plus I wrote a little web supplement for Mongoose's Slayer's Guide to Hobgoblins, but as far as I know, they never put it up on their site, even though they paid me for it.

I've had a prestige class in every issue of Asgard magazine, and I have art credit in issue 3 (Ley Line Mage, which looks like crap), issue 4 (Taranesti Sword-Dancer, which only looks good because of the assistance of my girlfriend, JL Jones), and issue 5 (cover, and an interior illustration for the fighter schools article). I also have small art credit for Wild Spellcraft, and I did the cityscape on the cover of Four-Color to Fantasy.

I think that's as exhaustive of a list as I can get.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Ok, and for the few of us who haven't been published, what do you think -- if you see a product out there on a shelf, and it has some work in it by Scott Greene or Claudio or someone like that who comes from "our community" does that make you want to buy the product? It totally does for me...

Sure. Absolutely.

Y'know, Eric, I've told you a million times you could get published easily, and make some cash, based just on name recognition. Give it a try.

 

[EricNoah]

Y'know, Eric, I've told you a million times you could get published easily, and make some cash, based just on name recognition. Give it a try.

I'd need a good idea first. I'd want to make the money and a reputation based on a great product rather than just cashing in on my name. (And I know that's not what you meant. ) I had that opportunity a while back ... you could be condending with Eric Noah's D20 Magazine right now.

So, a good idea I need, hmmm? Here's one I've been toying with ....

Resurrection Templates.

Think about it.

 

[Femerus the Gnecro]

Hmm. Mongoose picked up the "the Slayer's Guide to Minotaurs" from me some months ago, but never published it (i.e. I never saw a cent Hi Matt!)

Other than that, I'm still a publishing noob I should really submit something to Asgard one of these days

-F

 

[EricNoah]

Well, it's no big secret, since it comes up fairly frequently, but I'm a freelance RPG writer.

See, this is the stuff I'm talking about. Sheesh I'm a clueless berk.

Maybe the problem is trying to juggle two sets of names (screen names vs. real names). I'm bad enough with one set as it is.