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Ankh-Morpork Guard
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Pielorinho said:
Not, RPG, but Paizo puts out Star Wars Insider.
Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
Ankh-Morpork Guard said:
Ah, okay -- scratch that advice.
Daniel
jgbrowning
Hero
Switching the paragraphs really helps the tone. Great idea!
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This letter is from the entire EN World community in response to Jeffrey J Bickler's letter in issue 311.
Mr. Bickler's visit to our forums seems to have been an unfortunate one. Unlike his portrayal of a message board on which geeks rip apart games they don’t actually play, EN World is populated by the largest community of Dungeons & Dragons players on the Internet. Our posting members include such industry luminaries as Gary Gygax, Monte Cook, Chris Pramas, Sean K. Reynolds, Matthew Sprange, John Nephew, Clark Peterson, Hal Greenberg, Jim Butler, Anthony Valterra, and Dragon’s own Erik Mona. Some of the best new industry professionals, including Ben Durbin, Wil Upchurch, Suzi Yee, and Joseph Browning as well as a slew of Dragon's contributing authors like Mike Mearls, Ari Marmell, Brannon Hollingsworth, and Darrin Drader, also post at EN World.
The reason we have such a presence is because the people at EN World care deeply about the game. We spend hours discussing minute parts of the game. We have forums dedicated to rules questions and house rules, forums for other d20 games, and forums supporting creative fan-based work through adventure contests and online games. The people who make the books, magazines, and PDFs we love to praise, as well as rip apart, understand that the feedback created by EN World helps propel the hobby forward. Our criticisms of Dragon are made out of love for the magazine and love for the game, and although threads praising Dragon are fewer than those criticizing it, we think it's only because people almost always find it easier to talk about what they don't like than what they do.
Any portrayal of EN World as primarily negative is far from the truth, for it is one of the most positive things in this industry: a source of direct, unadulterated feedback to the game manufacturers. This can lead to harsh criticism or to lavish praise (often at the same time, for gamers are a mixed bunch with different likes and dislikes), but most of all, it lets the game players speak directly to the game producers, which only benefits everyone involved.
In order not only to criticize, but also to provide praise, EN World created the ENnies award ceremony. These awards praise the best of the industry with a focus on d20 material. Although the awards are only three years old, and undergoing constant peer-driven procedural consideration, they are rapidly becoming the benchmark awards for d20 products. Presented every year at Gen Con, they are attended by many of the most influential people in the business. We at EN World love Dragon, as well as Paizo's other publications such as Dungeon and Polyhedron. That's why we awarded Paizo an ENnie last year. Perhaps we don't say it often enough, so we felt that this would be a good opportunity to do so - thank you to all of the staff at Paizo for doing a wonderful job!
The EN World community.
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Pending other suggestions, this looks like a final copy.
joe b.
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This letter is from the entire EN World community in response to Jeffrey J Bickler's letter in issue 311.
Mr. Bickler's visit to our forums seems to have been an unfortunate one. Unlike his portrayal of a message board on which geeks rip apart games they don’t actually play, EN World is populated by the largest community of Dungeons & Dragons players on the Internet. Our posting members include such industry luminaries as Gary Gygax, Monte Cook, Chris Pramas, Sean K. Reynolds, Matthew Sprange, John Nephew, Clark Peterson, Hal Greenberg, Jim Butler, Anthony Valterra, and Dragon’s own Erik Mona. Some of the best new industry professionals, including Ben Durbin, Wil Upchurch, Suzi Yee, and Joseph Browning as well as a slew of Dragon's contributing authors like Mike Mearls, Ari Marmell, Brannon Hollingsworth, and Darrin Drader, also post at EN World.
The reason we have such a presence is because the people at EN World care deeply about the game. We spend hours discussing minute parts of the game. We have forums dedicated to rules questions and house rules, forums for other d20 games, and forums supporting creative fan-based work through adventure contests and online games. The people who make the books, magazines, and PDFs we love to praise, as well as rip apart, understand that the feedback created by EN World helps propel the hobby forward. Our criticisms of Dragon are made out of love for the magazine and love for the game, and although threads praising Dragon are fewer than those criticizing it, we think it's only because people almost always find it easier to talk about what they don't like than what they do.
Any portrayal of EN World as primarily negative is far from the truth, for it is one of the most positive things in this industry: a source of direct, unadulterated feedback to the game manufacturers. This can lead to harsh criticism or to lavish praise (often at the same time, for gamers are a mixed bunch with different likes and dislikes), but most of all, it lets the game players speak directly to the game producers, which only benefits everyone involved.
In order not only to criticize, but also to provide praise, EN World created the ENnies award ceremony. These awards praise the best of the industry with a focus on d20 material. Although the awards are only three years old, and undergoing constant peer-driven procedural consideration, they are rapidly becoming the benchmark awards for d20 products. Presented every year at Gen Con, they are attended by many of the most influential people in the business. We at EN World love Dragon, as well as Paizo's other publications such as Dungeon and Polyhedron. That's why we awarded Paizo an ENnie last year. Perhaps we don't say it often enough, so we felt that this would be a good opportunity to do so - thank you to all of the staff at Paizo for doing a wonderful job!
The EN World community.
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Pending other suggestions, this looks like a final copy.
joe b.
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Zander
Explorer
Speaking as a former editor and someone who once had a full page published in Dragon, I would change:jgbrowning said:
- "games they don't actually play, EN world is actually...". That's too many actuallies!
- "Dungeons and Dragons" to "Dungeons & Dragons" with an ampersand. I gather Gary G. is of like mind on this one.
- "find it easier to talk about what they don't like than what they do like." Delete the second "like".
How/where can I sign my name to it?
jgbrowning
Hero
Zander said:
Editing suggestions done. As to where/how to sign... um.. I'll leave that up to Morrus!
joe b.
Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
I'm a comma Nazi:
(Sorry to split y'all up like that, but you gotta be consistent with your commas)
You have a list of three things here; the final item in the list must be set off with an "and." "As well as" doesn't work.
Sorry to be so anal. Comes from my days as a writing tutor, when I'd spend hours reading up on proper comma usage and the like
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As for who sends it in, I'd suggest either Morrus or Joe, for obvious reasons in either case. Thanks again for writing this!
Daniel
jgbrowning said:
(Sorry to split y'all up like that, but you gotta be consistent with your commas)
You have a list of three things here; the final item in the list must be set off with an "and." "As well as" doesn't work.
Sorry to be so anal. Comes from my days as a writing tutor, when I'd spend hours reading up on proper comma usage and the like
.As for who sends it in, I'd suggest either Morrus or Joe, for obvious reasons in either case. Thanks again for writing this!
Daniel
tetsujin28
First Post
What the hell is Paizo?
