Kalamar - first published 4e setting?!?

[Wulf Ratbane]

Is there somewhere that usernames are listed for actual officials of representative companies?

What you are asking for is not unreasonable. To my knowledge, nothing like this exists.

However, this:

Our '2nd party' status ended last November or so, when our license agreement ended. We're not using their logos or copying any of their material, like we could before. Likewise, we're not using the GSL.

... has contextual clues that you should pick up on.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

That's not really a complaint about excess syllables, just a style choice. And it actually kind of shows why folks don't complain about Greyhawk in the same way. The people of Geoff strongly resemble the Welsh, but the chosen place names are much easier on the players than some Welsh names.

Given that the real world has places like 'Gary, Indiana', 'Pierre, South Dakota' (a state capital, I might add) and 'Jim Thorpe, PA' (named for the famous athelete)....well, I'm hard pressed to see a name like the Grand Duchy of Geoff as unrealistic or even silly.

Heck, I live near places like Bala Cynwyd, Bird-in-Hand, Limerick, Intercourse and Harrisburg. About two hours from here are towns like Strong, Frackville and Ashland (can you say 'coal country'?).

There is a city in Germany that's called "Darmstadt". Which means ~"Bowel City". And I am not sure Schweinfurt ("Pigforth") is so much better.

But I think Frackville is hilarious, at least since Battlestar Galactica.

 

[thundershot]

Thanks. Sorry I do not know any business by forum names so don't know a thing of what may or may not be official or otherwise just a random thought.

Is there somewhere that usernames are listed for actual officials of representative companies?

Like a list of industry professionals here that gives the username of them so you can refer back to it in the heat of reading a thread through?

Not really, but I think 90% of the professionals on this board put their company info in their signatures. That's the easiest way to tell.



Chris

 

[Jack99]

Harrumph! Going back into topic...



This puts WotC in a very difficult position. It can indeed sue Kenzer and drag the lawsuit long enough to ruin them... However this would cause a big backlash against WotC (can you say "Streisand Effect"?)

I do not see the relation between the Streisand Effect and Wotc suing Kenzer.

I also think you seriously overestimate how many gamers (even on ENworld) gives a rat's butt about WoTC suing and/or ruining some third party publisher.

 

[Amphimir Míriel]

I do my share of hard work translating names to spanish (my first language): Fallcrest, Rivenfall, Waterdeep, Tardrum, Teiradrion. I know they work in English but not in spanish. If everything we did was in English it would work, but changing between them sometimes doesn't. So here come the Crestaverde, Rio Largo, Honda el Agua, Tarkon, Tercanon, etc.

The english language is very high. Latin languages have more graves in them.

Sometimes they sound stupid but if you think about Buenos Aires, Aguascalientes, Colorado... real names exist like that.

The point I am trying to make is... I have to do all of this because the roleplaying language is English. English speakers SHOULDN'T go what I go through. It's kind of obtuse if you ask me.

(I know how to speak spanish, english, japanese and russian...)

Gracias por tu comentario compa!

I also find that transliterating names into Spanish (our first language here) helps everybody immerse themselves into the story.

I don't do literal translations, though... instead I do approximations of the place/character/etc. name into Spanish equivalents

For example, In my game, "Lord Armos Kamroth of Fallcrest" became "Don Armos Camrod, Señor de Salto del Agua" and the Bloodreaver Goblin Clan of KotS became "La banda de los Chupasangre"

 

[NewJeffCT]

EDIT: Heck, I just added a brand new 101-page v3.5-compatible PDF (Zoa: Citadel of the Bay to our web store.

woo-hoo - thanks for the book on Zoa!

 

[GeorgeFields]

I nabbed the pdf last night. Good stuff. The atlas section is beautiful. It will be great to be able to print out a page and actually write on the map without the worry of damaging it and not having a replacement.

 

[Mark Plemmons]

woo-hoo - thanks for the book on Zoa!

No problem!

 

[mxyzplk]

My two cents.

Cent 1 - I also don't really like the names in Kalamar. I generally refer to "Kingdoms of Kalamar" as "Kingdoms of Konsonants" based on the previews I saw in Knights of the Dinner Table.

Cent 2 - But it's awesome that they're giving Wizards a well-deserved pimp slap with this. I hope Hasbro does sue, get defeated, and all the other small game publishers feel safe in exerting their legal rights in the future, not being subdued by the FUD Wizards puts out. Though I'm not a Kalamar fan I went out to buy Aces & Eights immediately to support such a gutsy move.

 

[Fifth Element]

Not really, but I think 90% of the professionals on this board put their company info in their signatures.

And many of the hack amateurs as well!