Saturday, January 10, 2009

Another Great Review for the Creature Generator...

Here.

The reviewer has [Staff] listed by his name, so if he works for the site selling the thing, maybe the review should be looked at suspiciously, but it's nice to see in any event.

The Forge is also sniffing around the Old School Movement, which is scary and interesting at the same time. And I don't know if it's arrogance or keen intuition that makes me think they're talking about me when they talk about but don't name a blog that's a bad apple (comment 21) or that has nothing of value.

I was at a birthday party for a relative of the girlfriend today (for a woman turning 50 with most of the guests of similar age... zzz... but I did get to use the time to do more than 5 pages of notes for a "D&D and Race" article that I might write if common sense fails me) so no real post today... I have games tomorrow and perhaps Monday and maybe even Tuesday, so...

13 comments:

  1. The Forge is also sniffing around the Old School Movement

    You're just trying to get the folks on theRPGsite all lathered up, aren't you?

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  2. While you're certainly near the top of my "Les Enfants Terribles of Old School Gaming" List -- especially after that nude photo :-) -- the Forge folks may have been referring to Alexis over at The Tao of D&D. Maybe you guys could work out some sort of Wicked Gamer of the East/Wicked Gamer of the West arrangement.

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  3. Actually, after reading the stuff you linked to... Yeah, okay. Philotomy and James are a few nude photos short of Enfants Terribles status.

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  4. "they talk about but don't name a blog that's a bad apple (comment 21) or that has nothing of value."

    That's pretty effin' weak.

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  5. I'm tempted to post a nude photo on my site.

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  6. Agreed: weak sauce.

    I finally got a copy of the Creature Generator last week and am really enjoying making monsters with it. It's a fantastic book.

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  7. Thanks for the Indie forum link James. Reading that thread was a wonderful and interesting experience, although I was torn between giggling like a school girl at their stiff and proper politeness, and feeling like an old school lab-rat with the creepy sensation that my "affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than" my own.

    I must admit I see nothing in the "bad apple" comment that suggests it's aimed at any one individual.

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  8. Oh, come on guys! Since Raggi is So Friggin' Metal and such a Hardcore Badass Rebel Gamer with his Hardcore Badass Rebel Gaming Blog, anytime people toss out vague mentionings of "bad apples" how could they not be referring to him? He's Just That Badass.

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  9. Badass enough to put my name on my comments, anyway.

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  10. I feel like a science experiment now. Weird to see the community being talked about in such a clinical manner.

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  11. Dudes: if you don't like being talked ABOUT instead of talked to, you could always, like, pop in and talk to folks. (I know Rients was reading the thread, and was hoping he'd chime in.)

    I actually think the discussion on the Forge was--setting aside one guy's weird disgruntlement--pretty dang positive.

    Naturally as a participant I tried to show what was going on as I saw it, but if you feel I got stuff wrong, please jump in.

    --best, James Nostack

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  12. Naturally as a participant I tried to show what was going on as I saw it, but if you feel I got stuff wrong, please jump in.

    I had no problems with anything you said James and found the whole thread quite fascinating. It's good to get the perspective of those from without. Now it's true I almost reached for the dictionary a couple of times, but that's good too. Your incredible politeness towards one another was refreshing and reading your ideas as to "why" we are doing what we're doing, was thought provoking stuff. I'm glad James Raggi linked to the thread.

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  13. A while back I started a discussion about what I saw as the similarities in approach between the Forge and the old school at the OD&D 74 boards: http://odd74.proboards76.com/index.cgi?board=gns&action=print&thread=1320

    Many good posts there on both sides, and I still feel like we have more in common with one another than we do with those for whom the meaning of a RPG begins and ends with "whatever is currently published as officially licensed Dungeons and Dragons material."

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