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<blockquote data-quote="Marius Delphus" data-source="post: 601124" data-attributes="member: 447">Chiming in with the general thrust of the responses so far:On publishing your work: go for it. (SHAMELESS PLUG TIME!) I helped to write the little (NON-collectible) card game featured in my .sig (everyone buy a copy, now! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) and through the perseverence and dedication of my co-authors it was lately brought to market and still stands as my only published work. I don't take any credit whatsoever for &quot;Management Material&quot; being printed up and published/distributed; had it been up to me, I imagine I would have let it wither rather than spend the effort required. (Also there was a money issue....)However, having something I helped write in print is one thing I'm quite pleased with, and possibly even proud of (though as I say, the game's *printing and publication* cannot be credited to me). We had a booth at Gen Con 2002 (and AFAIK we plan to have another at Gen Con 2003), and as a co-author I have to tell you watching people play and laugh their way through it was a terrific, irreplaceable natural &quot;high.&quot; I still don't know anything about the d20 market (other than what I see at my FLGS), but from what I experienced I certainly do recommend taking the plunge and getting published if it's feasible.If you haven't done so yet, check out our Web site; the game is an absolute laugh riot, IMHO. Also check out the review in Nodwick #17; though we're not affiliated with Aaron Williams or Dork Storm Publishing, we think they're *really really* cool. (END SHAMELESS PLUG!)On dating: go for it. I'll echo Taren here and note that at the time I first asked her out, my now-wife had been wondering when I was going to do so. And here we are, 14 years and 2-1/2 months later....Of course, I have an &quot;abject humiliation&quot; story too, but I'll spare everyone. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marius Delphus, post: 601124, member: 447"] Chiming in with the general thrust of the responses so far: On publishing your work: go for it. (SHAMELESS PLUG TIME!) I helped to write the little (NON-collectible) card game featured in my .sig (everyone buy a copy, now! :) ) and through the perseverence and dedication of my co-authors it was lately brought to market and still stands as my only published work. I don't take any credit whatsoever for "Management Material" being printed up and published/distributed; had it been up to me, I imagine I would have let it wither rather than spend the effort required. (Also there was a money issue....) However, having something I helped write in print is one thing I'm quite pleased with, and possibly even proud of (though as I say, the game's *printing and publication* cannot be credited to me). We had a booth at Gen Con 2002 (and AFAIK we plan to have another at Gen Con 2003), and as a co-author I have to tell you watching people play and laugh their way through it was a terrific, irreplaceable natural "high." I still don't know anything about the d20 market (other than what I see at my FLGS), but from what I experienced I certainly do recommend taking the plunge and getting published if it's feasible. If you haven't done so yet, check out our Web site; the game is an absolute laugh riot, IMHO. Also check out the review in Nodwick #17; though we're not affiliated with Aaron Williams or Dork Storm Publishing, we think they're *really really* cool. (END SHAMELESS PLUG!) On dating: go for it. I'll echo Taren here and note that at the time I first asked her out, my now-wife had been wondering when I was going to do so. And here we are, 14 years and 2-1/2 months later.... Of course, I have an "abject humiliation" story too, but I'll spare everyone. :D [/QUOTE]

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