[Green Ronin] SKULL & BONES cover!

[GMSkarka]

It's all cool. I'm going to respect his opinion on this and let it rest. I hope y'all will do the same.

Absolutely.

My offer was more a way for me to counter any negative effect I may have had, by

a) Letting 'bender have a copy of the book
b) Letting GR get the $$ for the sale they otherwise would've missed

and

c) Perhaps demonstrating that I'm not as bad as all that. An olive branch, if you will.

RPGnet can be a real cesspit, and has the tendency to bring out the worst in me...I'm definitely making an effort not to spend as much time there.

GMS

 

[Sagan Darkside]

RPGnet can be a real cesspit, and has the tendency to bring out the worst in me...I'm definitely making an effort not to spend as much time there.

Aww, you were one of the best aspects of RPG.Net, but I can appreciate you wanting to rise about that.

I will be picking up this book when it comes out.

SD

 

[hellbender]

My very last post on this, honest.

I really appreciate everyone's understanding on this, including Nicole and Gareth Michael-Skarka. And, Wulf really got the entire point I was trying to make. I would never suggest anyone not buy a product just because I am not, however, I invite anyone to see why I choose not to because of a principle.

Now, if Gareth decides to take a more understanding approach to some of the posters at rpg.net (I understand that a LOT of people there try to get under a person's skin, he was provoked on several occasions, but from a professional standpoint, could have not been as caustic) then count me in for a copy. Don't pull any punches there because of me, but because you want to, and I am in for a copy.

I don't think that personally Gareth is a bad guy, and I have never protested a product in the roleplaying community as strongly, but some of those posts to other roleplayers really got to me, and I hope that in the end, my rant was of some use and some good comes of it. I also appreciate everyone being civil on this one.


Take care,
hellbender

 

[Sagan Darkside]

Take care,
hellbender

Heh, kind of ironic all of this coming from someone using the handle "hellbender".

Not that my handle is much better and considering my stand on similar issues...

SD

 

[Yellow Sign]

Sorry to interupt but I wanted to ask a Skull and Bones question. Is it still projected for a March release or has it been pushed back?

 

[Piratecat]

I believe it was pushed back; that's why I've been moaning and gnashing my teeth for the last few months whenever I hear it referenced. Ever since I read Tim Power's On Stranger Tides (a pirate & voodoo book) and George Macdonald Fraser's The Pyrates, I've been waiting for this one. I'm very glad it's seeing print.

 

[Nikchick]

I believe it was pushed back; that's why I've been moaning and gnashing my teeth for the last few months whenever I hear it referenced. Ever since I read Tim Power's On Stranger Tides (a pirate & voodoo book) and George Macdonald Fraser's The Pyrates, I've been waiting for this one. I'm very glad it's seeing print.

Yes, one of our freelance editors had a little, hmmm, how should I put this... "editing/development SNAFU" with the text of Skull & Bones. If anyone wants to buy me a drink at the GAMA Trade Show, you could probably pull the horror story out of me, but suffice to say that we couldn't realistically make our target date.

I'm not sure where Chris is going to decide to slot it into the production schedule, but I thought it only fair to pop in and thank everyone who has been waiting so patiently for the book. Thanks for trusting us. We've had to invest additional time on a couple of projects in the last year, but I like to think the end result has always been worth it. We're determined that Skull & Bones will be no different.

I expect we'll have a better idea of where things stand after we get back from GTS.

Nicole

 

[2WS-Steve]

I'm really looking forward to this one too; the previews Adamant put up had terrific flavor and that flavor was rum! It reminded me of the short Black Freighter comic-within-a-comic from an old Alan Moore piece, real black-hearted pirates and all that.

 

[Piratecat]

Irrelevant note: while scanning the OED the other day, I noticed that "filibuster" may currently mean a long-winded speech, but a fillibuster was originally another name for pirates!


2. spec. a. One of a class of piratical adventurers who pillaged the Spanish colonies in the West Indies during the 17th c.

1792 BURKE Heads for Consid. Wks. VII. 93 The Flibustiers..about a century back..brought..calamities upon the Spanish colonies. 1822-56 DE QUINCEY Confess. (1862) 6 This..man is a buccaneer, a pirate, a flibustier.

Maybe it's just me, but I think that's cool.

 

[Gez]

Irrelevant note: while scanning the OED the other day, I noticed that "flibuster" may currently mean a long-winded speech, but a flibuster was originally another name for pirates!


2. spec. a. One of a class of piratical adventurers who pillaged the Spanish colonies in the West Indies during the 17th c.

1792 BURKE Heads for Consid. Wks. VII. 93 The Flibustiers..about a century back..brought..calamities upon the Spanish colonies. 1822-56 DE QUINCEY Confess. (1862) 6 This..man is a buccaneer, a pirate, a flibustier.

Maybe it's just me, but I think that's cool.

Aye aye, sir. Blame us French for that word. "Flibustier", one that is part of the "flibuste" (la flibuste, feminine word). My dictionnary propose "freebooting" and "freebooter" as translations.
"Buccaner" similarly comes from "boucanier".
"Corsair" (privateer) comes from "corsaire", which itself comes from "course" (race, travel), after the "lettres de course" they received. IIRC, it was previously derived from an italian word.
And "contraband" comes from "contrebande". But no "contrabandeer" for "contrebandier", only "smuggler".