mbassoc2003 wrote:bandwagon book
Prufrock wrote:This is for Badmike for thanksgiving: a bacon pig!!!!!http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/11/04/t-m ... &hpt=hp_c2
FormCritic wrote:Grandiose advertising aside, Shannon Appelcline has been researching this book for some time. Part of her research, for instance, has been to access our interview strand with Steve Perrin of Chaosium. From what I have read from this author elsewhere online, her book might be a very excellent thing to own. I would say that the price I have seen elsewhere....$30 for an electronic book...and that was the discount price...seemed a bit steep. Still, when the price is right, this book would be fun to read.
Plaag wrote:Designers & DragonsAnyone have this? I'm curious about the Judges Guild section.ShaneG.
Bracton wrote:I picked up a copy at GenCon. It's really a history of the game companies in the RPG industry. It's about 440 pages long, with pretty tiny type. I'm certainly no expert, but I found a lot of information in it I hadn't heard before, or had only heard in bits and pieces. I've certainly not seen a compilation of this information all in one place before. It's well-written, and the organization by company makes it easy to follow the story of each one's rise and, almost always, fall. No, it doesn't cover the small press publishers, but I would guess most of the major companies are included, with a good bit of detail on each. A large amount of research clearly went into it, and I felt I got my money's worth.The section on Judge's Guild runs about six pages, from the founding by Bob Bledsaw and Bill Owen through the material published under license through 2010, including Adventure Games Publishing. According to the author, Bob read and commented on the chapter before his death.
sauromatian wrote:Yeah, I got yer Portal Master right here, bub.
Plaag wrote:Are you Kaos?
mbassoc2003 wrote:It doesn't really matter what the author writes about Arneson and Gygax. They're both dead, so the author can make up as much BS about them and the history of D&D as they like. No-one is gonna sue, and it's not like they give a sh't either. This is just a money grabbing book written by an author with little knowledge or expertise, who's so far up their own arse, they're having trouble differentiating the real world from the contents of their own colon.
Zenopus wrote:Aldarron (Dragons at Dawn) points out some factual errors in the preview sample in this blog post:http://boggswood.blogspot.com/2011/11/d ... -4995.html
mbassoc2003 wrote:... maybe I'm biased because I don't like seeing BS in print. I prefer factual information without fluff and self-aggrandisement.
FormCritic wrote:Actually, the author has been posting game company info for some time. She's a pretty good source on game history and she is a good writer. Her research has been going on for some years.
faro wrote:Mutual back-patting among "historians" - or "cultural archaeologists", as the case may be - is truly a thing to behold.
Bracton wrote:Ugh. I think my "favorite" part is the second question where the interviewer refers to his own published book, with a helpful link to the Amazon page.
