Failed promises

[Belen]

Which I'm finding amusing as hell, because one participant in the argument has been working in the industry for quite a while, and knows what he's talking about, and the others have anecdotal evidence that they think somehow puts them on equal footing.

So, in other words: Pretty much par for the course for every industry-related internet argument, ever.

A bit annoying in this case as it started out as an interesting thread. I like to hear what others thought about books that have purchased.

For instance, I bought Dragonlords of Melnibourne, which was godawful, and it is good to know I was not the only sucker.

Then again, I am one of those people who purchase first and get disappointed later.

 

[billd91]

I was too, until I started working harder at checking books out from the library first. It's how I usually review WotC publications now. It's why I didn't bother buying the Monster Manual III. I checked it out, read over it, and decided that there simply weren't enough monsters in it that would add to my campaign. So I didn't buy it.

Unfortunately, the library system doesn't stock many other game systems.

 

[Kanegrundar]

Being a professional in the industry doesn't give anyone the right to make wild accusations on how any group is ran, the way people buy their books, and if they got disappointed in a book excersising their right to tell others about how much they thought the book stank (the actual point to the whole thread, which he missed).

Kane

 

[diaglo]

Being a professional in the industry doesn't give anyone the right to make wild accusations on how any group is ran, the way people buy their books, and if they got disappointed in a book excersising their right to tell others about how much they thought the book stank (the actual point to the whole thread, which he missed).

Kane

i don't think Erik Mona said any of that.

 

[Belen]

Being a professional in the industry doesn't give anyone the right to make wild accusations on how any group is ran, the way people buy their books, and if they got disappointed in a book excersising their right to tell others about how much they thought the book stank (the actual point to the whole thread, which he missed).

Kane

So forgive my ignorance, but who is the professional?

 

[Gomez]

I shouldn't have bothered arguing with you in the first place, sir; yours is a level of bad taste so alien, so unutterable, so eldritch, so cacodaemonical, so non-Euclidean - so cosmically horrific as to defy the very existence of a sane reality!

That sir is a quotable line for a signature if I ever saw one!

Bravo!

 

[Kanegrundar]

I wasn't referring to EM. I thought that Gareth was referring to eyebeams as an industry professional. I could be wrong. If so, I meant no ill to Erik.

Kane

 

[diaglo]

I wasn't referring to EM. I thought that Gareth was referring to eyebeams as an industry professional. I could be wrong. If so, I meant no ill to Erik.

Kane

if he is an industry professional...

well... i'm glad my hat of d02 knows no limits.

 

[Gomez]

I was too, until I started working harder at checking books out from the library first. It's how I usually review WotC publications now. It's why I didn't bother buying the Monster Manual III. I checked it out, read over it, and decided that there simply weren't enough monsters in it that would add to my campaign. So I didn't buy it.

Unfortunately, the library system doesn't stock many other game systems.

The first rpg game that I ever GM'd was Metamorphosis Alpha in which I had checked out from my junior high library!

And if it matters any, I purchased the Gamma World d20 book in advance just on the brand name alone. Of coarse, I sold it at a half price book store one week later. So Sad!

 

[Kanegrundar]

I've held onto GWD20 to see if any of it will work well within the framework set forth in D20 Future and Apocalypse. I'm re-writing a few of the mutations, and then I'm selling it this weekend. I'll put that credit towards more minis or the new edition of Runebound.

Kane