jgbrowning
Hero
Pielorinho said:
Edits made as suggested. No problems w/ the writing, just want people to understand how great EN World (lookie morrus, i am trainable
) is.joe b.
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Edits made as suggested. No problems w/ the writing, just want people to understand how great EN World (lookie morrus, i am trainable
) is.joe b.
tetsujin28
First Post
You mean it's no longer made by WoTC? Geez...it has been a long time since I picked and issue up...Crothian said:
wiccanWARRIOR
First Post
(sing along now): "Lets do the time-warp again!"
Actually I kind of miss the old days of The Dragon magazine.
Hey, remember that phase it went thru when it would have a cool mini-game almost every issue, complete with big maps, a sheet of neat cardstock counters, and (mostly) good game designs?
Food Fight! and Tom Wham's King of the Tabletop (one of the possible "inspirations"
for the Magic: the Gathering game) come to mind right away as something we all had a blast with when one or more people couldn't make it to the game that week.
No matter how little or much I've used the content of my Dragon magazine over the years, I just keep buying and buying. Glad it's still around.
diaglo said:
I love The Strategic Review
and The Dragon...
Actually I kind of miss the old days of The Dragon magazine.
Hey, remember that phase it went thru when it would have a cool mini-game almost every issue, complete with big maps, a sheet of neat cardstock counters, and (mostly) good game designs?
Food Fight! and Tom Wham's King of the Tabletop (one of the possible "inspirations"
for the Magic: the Gathering game) come to mind right away as something we all had a blast with when one or more people couldn't make it to the game that week.No matter how little or much I've used the content of my Dragon magazine over the years, I just keep buying and buying. Glad it's still around.
Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
jgbrowning said:
I know I'm being so freakin difficult, but you replaced the word "and" between you and Suzi with a comma; you need to put the word back in. It should read, ". . . Joseph Browning, and Suzi Yee. . . ."
(Rule: items in a list of three or more items should be separated by commas. The last and the second-to-last times should be separated by the word "and." A comma preceding the word "and" is purely optional, but the author should be consistent within a single work on whether this so-called "Harvard comma" appears.)
Y'know, on second thought, I'm sure Dragon has editors who'll do this level of nitpickiness to your letter anyway, so it may not be worth worrying about.
Daniel
jgbrowning
Hero
Zander said:Joe,
I just spotted another one...
If you include yourself in a list (sc. "Joseph Browning"), you should place your name at the end (i.e. after Suzi Yee). It's a small point, but it makes you look rude and I'm sure you're not.
Changed it. I'm not planning on having my name attached to it at all. I was trying to write a letter from the community, not just one of us. (And now, dammit, Suzi gets to go first again....
)joe b.
jgbrowning
Hero
Pielorinho said:
No probs, here's the revision.
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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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joe b.
Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
Zander said:
Actually, the Harvard comma is also called the Oxford comma
.I keep seeing places where commas need to go or need to be eliminated, but I'm afraid I could keep seeing those places until the cows come home; at this point, this proofreader declares, "Good enough!" I say we get folks to sign on to the letter via this thread and send this puppy out the door!
Daniel Withrow
signing on to the letter
