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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DLIMedia" data-source="post: 9529002" data-attributes="member: 6668167">In semi-related news, just to keep this thread rolling, our best friend Dave Johnson - original author of SF:NG - is looking to put his skils at designing quality sci-fi RPGs into yet another product*...[ATTACH=full]388790[/ATTACH]In line with his brand, he still can't decide on just ONE font. Every image I see of this has a different one. Also, I gotta say that designing a cover where the product's name is 50% obscured by the cover art is an interesting approach.And, yes, it's using his infamous <a href="http://dl.dlimedia.com/The_Official_d30_System.pdf" target="_blank">"d30 System"</a>, which was pulled from DTRPG because of... uh... DJ's "character flaws".Having seen his Substack and painfully heard his podcasts, I'm going to go out on a limb and say this product - if it does get published - will probably be the single most AI-heavy product in the entire RPG industry (and that's with me knowing full well who, in my opinion, holds that title right now). Nothing about anything he's posted is real: the text, the podcast voices, the images, the logos, everything... is AI-generated in one way or another. The author, "Alex Sterling", isn't even a real person. The only way you'd know it's DJ is because of his occasional totally-not-RPG related posts or responses on Twitter, which although they aren't as extreme as some of his past work are definitely also on brand, and for one audio that he's posted somewhere that contains his unmistakeably nasal voice, which for someone who's <a href="https://onbpublishing.substack.com/p/amateur-voice-actors-group-avag" target="_blank">also trying to run a voice actor's guild</a>, (yes, <a href="https://onbpublishing.substack.com/p/casting-call-seeking-new-or-aspiring" target="_blank">really</a>) is not exactly... how should we put it... pleasant.And he's passionately optimistic... looking to charge a prime rate for the would-be "collector's item" and best RPG ever.[ATTACH=full]388791[/ATTACH]Going back to my "....yet another product..." he's got going, DJ historically has a lot of projects in the works and fails to deliver on most of them. By my count, he currently has in production:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">UAP Dark Horizons, which <a href="https://onbpublishing.substack.com/p/uap-dark-horizon" target="_blank">mentions an awful lot of content</a> and is apparently at least two books ("this book complements the Audio Series and the role-playing game").</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://onbpublishing.substack.com/p/grognards-and-bogeymen-essence" target="_blank">Grognards & Bogeymen: Essence</a>, his take on "old school" D&D, which is - to say the least - flawed.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">He's also back on <a href="https://onbpublishing.substack.com/p/gor-the-barbarian-ttrpg" target="_blank">Gor the Barbarian</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://onbpublishing.substack.com/p/lunar-colony-alpha-site-rpg" target="_blank">Lunar Colony: Alpha Site Tabletop Roleplaying Game</a>, which I'm not sure if it's the same thing as UAP Dark Horizons or not, but there are separate posts with separate art so let's consider them different products.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://onbpublishing.substack.com/p/the-king-in-yellow-the-play" target="_blank">The King in Yellow</a>, "a play in three acts", whatever that is</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Multiple podcasts... <a href="https://onbpublishing.substack.com/p/the-echoes-of-the-old-ones" target="_blank">The Echoes of the Old Ones</a>, <a href="https://onbpublishing.substack.com/p/the-haunting-of-belavere-d8c" target="_blank">The Haunting of Belavere</a>, etc... These all kinda blend together, so I'm not sure how many actual products they are.</li> </ul>I gotta admit, I admire his tenacity... But damn it man, at least finishing publish something eventually, eh? I sit on one product for six months, but I guess I'm doing it wrong because I sit on only one product.</blockquote>

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