I'm A Banana
Potassium-Rich
ENWorld is the reason the internet was invented: so clever semi-obsessives could get together to find what they like and make their free time a better place with a sense of community and collaboration.
Eric Noah, stay out of this thread. Everybody else, hop on in.
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grodog
Hero
Rel said:
Great idea Rel
Hi Eric---
I can directly attribute my resurged interest in D&D to your efforts on the first ENWorld site. I had quit D&D in the earliest days of 2nd edition, and never looked back (much), even to the point of selling my oldest D&D items (Strategic Reviews, Dragon #7 and well-beyond, my OD&D box set and supplements, etc., etc.). When 3rd edition was announced, with a return to the original feel of the game and to Greyhawk (via the RPGA's Living Greyhawk Journal, etc.), I read your site often, and eventually joined the first incarnation of the forums. Without your interest in 3rd edition, I wouldn't be playing D&D again today, nor would I have returned to the setting that I love so much. Thanks muchly, and Merry Christmas!
megamania
Hero
EN WORLD
EN World is like a window to me. I look through it and I see everything outside of my home, life and work. I see friends from far away places whom I wave to regularly in the Hive Mind. I see friends whom live in my area and relive our adventures together in the Storyhours. I see New ideas and thoughts from House Rules that become part of my world and life. I see adventures as they play out in PbP.
EN World has become an important part of my life. Besides D20 stuff, I have made new friends here, learned of far away lands across the oceans and the mountains. These new friends have helped and adviced me through very tough times. Very tough. They have also shared in my joy and triumphs.
Happy Holidays and many more happy days and years to you.
Andrew S. Farrell
aka megamania
of Arlington Vermont
EN World is like a window to me. I look through it and I see everything outside of my home, life and work. I see friends from far away places whom I wave to regularly in the Hive Mind. I see friends whom live in my area and relive our adventures together in the Storyhours. I see New ideas and thoughts from House Rules that become part of my world and life. I see adventures as they play out in PbP.
EN World has become an important part of my life. Besides D20 stuff, I have made new friends here, learned of far away lands across the oceans and the mountains. These new friends have helped and adviced me through very tough times. Very tough. They have also shared in my joy and triumphs.
Happy Holidays and many more happy days and years to you.
Andrew S. Farrell
aka megamania
of Arlington Vermont
Baron Opal
First Post
Hey Eric.
As one Erich to another (sorta), I can't tell you how much I've come to appreciate this site. It is the main place I come for news about my hobby as well as meeting a collection of ... interesting characters that I've come to appreciate and desire to meet. It is a meeting place where I can discover a variety of ideas I've never considered to improve my game. It is invaluable to me both for information, cameradere and diversion; no other site comes close to what I find here.
Thank you.
As one Erich to another (sorta), I can't tell you how much I've come to appreciate this site. It is the main place I come for news about my hobby as well as meeting a collection of ... interesting characters that I've come to appreciate and desire to meet. It is a meeting place where I can discover a variety of ideas I've never considered to improve my game. It is invaluable to me both for information, cameradere and diversion; no other site comes close to what I find here.
Thank you.
Piratecat
Sesquipedalian
If you measure the good you've done by the number of ripples you've made -- by how much you've impacted and improved the life of others -- Eric is the giant boulder rolled into the proverbial lake. He'd deny it, of course, but he's been a blessing to a multitude of people.
For instance, Eric created an online home where I ended up honing both my writing skills and my D&D game. I couldn't believe that other people would care about these things! Growing up, the only people I knew who played D&D were my closest four friends; then I found Eric's site, and suddenly I realized that there were thousands of people who loved the same things I do. It was a humbling moment, and an empowering one.
And of course, this was never the original intention. Eric was just starting a place to collect rumors about the new game. It grew to so much more than that, though, and he carried all of us along for the ride. Because of Eric and Kara, I've met people from all over the world and made hundreds of friends, and I've gotten to play in some astonishingly good D&D games along the way. You can't ask for more than that.
Thanks, buddy!
- Kevin "Piratecat" Kulp
For instance, Eric created an online home where I ended up honing both my writing skills and my D&D game. I couldn't believe that other people would care about these things! Growing up, the only people I knew who played D&D were my closest four friends; then I found Eric's site, and suddenly I realized that there were thousands of people who loved the same things I do. It was a humbling moment, and an empowering one.
And of course, this was never the original intention. Eric was just starting a place to collect rumors about the new game. It grew to so much more than that, though, and he carried all of us along for the ride. Because of Eric and Kara, I've met people from all over the world and made hundreds of friends, and I've gotten to play in some astonishingly good D&D games along the way. You can't ask for more than that.
Thanks, buddy!
- Kevin "Piratecat" Kulp
Olaf the Stout
Legend
What does ENWorld mean to me?
If there is one place on the internet that I would call 'home', EN World would be the place.
Originally, when I first came here from the WotC boards it was just another messageboard to talk about D&D on. After lurking here for many months I finally decided to take the plunge and start posting. I didn't post much for the first couple of years that I was registered but I still visited regularly to see what was happening.
As time went on I found myself coming to EN World more and more often. If I wanted to find out anything new about D&D I would check the front page, and failing that, ask a question on the boards. Every single time I would find someone who could point me in the right direction.
Fast forward to today and I visit the website almost every single day. I have become somewhat of a regular poster, although I still ask more questions than I answer!
EN World is a place where I can find out all of the latest happenings in the world of D&D and D20. It is a place where I can get all my rules questions answered. I can throw up issues that I am having in my game and get other peoples' perspectives on them. If it is D&D related and I haven't heard about it here on EN World it obviously isn't important enough!
Over the years I have found out about new products, games and companies that I never would have discovered if it wasn't for EN World and the reviews section has helped me to find books that are to my style of gaming. I have got in touch with gamers from my own city that I never would have known if it wasn't for this place. While I have met people in my own city I have also met people from all over the world that I would now consider friends
Overall I am a better player and DM than I ever would have been if it wasn't for one guy many years ago who decided to start up a D&D 3E rumours site (modestly) known as EN World.
Thank you Eric Noah. You Rock! 
Olaf the Stout
If there is one place on the internet that I would call 'home', EN World would be the place.
Originally, when I first came here from the WotC boards it was just another messageboard to talk about D&D on. After lurking here for many months I finally decided to take the plunge and start posting. I didn't post much for the first couple of years that I was registered but I still visited regularly to see what was happening.
As time went on I found myself coming to EN World more and more often. If I wanted to find out anything new about D&D I would check the front page, and failing that, ask a question on the boards. Every single time I would find someone who could point me in the right direction.
Fast forward to today and I visit the website almost every single day. I have become somewhat of a regular poster, although I still ask more questions than I answer!
EN World is a place where I can find out all of the latest happenings in the world of D&D and D20. It is a place where I can get all my rules questions answered. I can throw up issues that I am having in my game and get other peoples' perspectives on them. If it is D&D related and I haven't heard about it here on EN World it obviously isn't important enough!
Over the years I have found out about new products, games and companies that I never would have discovered if it wasn't for EN World and the reviews section has helped me to find books that are to my style of gaming. I have got in touch with gamers from my own city that I never would have known if it wasn't for this place. While I have met people in my own city I have also met people from all over the world that I would now consider friends
Overall I am a better player and DM than I ever would have been if it wasn't for one guy many years ago who decided to start up a D&D 3E rumours site (modestly) known as EN World.
Thank you Eric Noah. You Rock!
Olaf the Stout
Charwoman Gene
Adventurer
This is not a post about ENWorld. Sorry.
This is a post about Eric Noah's Unofficial 3rd Edition News.
A Librarian with a little free time, a community with an unmet need.
Was it before google? I was an early adopter on google, so it's hard to remember, but I know I found it on a search engine... Red Text Days, good times.
You woke me up to my love of D&D again. You MADE the current D&D scene, not by yourself, no, but it started with you.
Thanks Eric.
And Thanks to those who took up the banner of ENWorld after Eric couldn't rule the universe on his own. Now he's like some cyclopean beastie sleeping under to sea of posts waiting to rear his head.
This is a post about Eric Noah's Unofficial 3rd Edition News.
A Librarian with a little free time, a community with an unmet need.
Was it before google? I was an early adopter on google, so it's hard to remember, but I know I found it on a search engine... Red Text Days, good times.
You woke me up to my love of D&D again. You MADE the current D&D scene, not by yourself, no, but it started with you.
Thanks Eric.
And Thanks to those who took up the banner of ENWorld after Eric couldn't rule the universe on his own. Now he's like some cyclopean beastie sleeping under to sea of posts waiting to rear his head.
BOZ
Creature Cataloguer
i may have missed last call, but i have the time to write and think now, so i'm going to take it anyway. 
ENWorld has been great fun for me. I first discovered it as I was becoming a part of something important to me, the Creature Catalog site. These forums really allowed me to express myself, and meet a lot of people who seem to like me just fine. Also, it allowed me to make contacts that have led to getting some freelance work published, and after seeing some of the "locals" get stuff printed in Dragon magazine, it encouraged me to do the same. It has been a place that allows me to speak my mind, ask questions, and just hang out and be silly. It would not be here now if not for you, Eric Noah, you're my hero!!!!
ENWorld has been great fun for me. I first discovered it as I was becoming a part of something important to me, the Creature Catalog site. These forums really allowed me to express myself, and meet a lot of people who seem to like me just fine.
Also, it allowed me to make contacts that have led to getting some freelance work published, and after seeing some of the "locals" get stuff printed in Dragon magazine, it encouraged me to do the same. It has been a place that allows me to speak my mind, ask questions, and just hang out and be silly. It would not be here now if not for you, Eric Noah, you're my hero!!!! Similar Threads
