Upcoming WotC books

[JoeGKushner]

Heh. You'll have to tell us. Precisely because we didn't want to be influenced by it, C.A. and I made a deliberate point of not reading that one before we wrote HoH.

I can see where that mentallity comes from, but if a lot of mechanics are similiar anyway, won't people still think that it's ripped off, regardless of you not having seen the mechanics?

 

[Toll Carom]

I can see where that mentallity comes from, but if a lot of mechanics are similiar anyway, won't people still think that it's ripped off, regardless of you not having seen the mechanics?

I suppose that's possible, but remember, ours is official content, Mearls' isn't.

Less glibly: It won't happen, either way. Horror is horror, but once you've got them side by side, you're going to see two very different books. I guarantee it.

Happy gaming.

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CAS

 

[Mouseferatu]

Also, the point wasn't to keep people from believing anyone "ripped off" anyone else--though I'd certainly like to avoid such accusations, since we did no such thing.

The point, rather, was to avoid stunting our own creativity. I know from personal experience that once I see Method X of doing something (assuming Method X is even vaguely well done), it becomes very hard for me to think outside the box of Method X when trying to find some other way of doing it.

IOW, I didn't want Mike's own ideas of fantasy horror to influence my own, precisely because I wanted them to be my own.

 

[Arcane Runes Press]

I can see where that mentallity comes from, but if a lot of mechanics are similiar anyway, won't people still think that it's ripped off, regardless of you not having seen the mechanics?

Sometimes, for a writer, it's enough that you know you didn't rip someone else off. Even if other people don't believe you, you can be sure of two things:

1) You're telling the truth.

2) They're all just ugly head, pimple butt stink faces anyway.

...

also, they smell like cheese.


Patrick Y.

 

[glass]

Me, too.

But then, it's just vaguely possible that I'm biased.

It's just possible that we are, too?


glass.

 

[tetsujin28]

Maybe folk are just not all that interested, but I think that Heroes of Horror, at least, looks interesting.

That's the one that I'm most interested in, definitely.