things that I'd do if I were CEO and president of TLG

[Tadhg]

jman5000 wrote:
great post bowbe.... thanks for taking the time to share it.

and to treebore... in some respects you are somebody I look up to, because you take the time to play with your kids (not that anybody else doesn't around here, but you make it very vocal and unashamedly part of who you are...) it inspires me to want to play with my kids when they are old enough.

Cheers,

J.

And further agree!!
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[serleran]

I've been thinking, and that's usually a bad thing, but this is about the majestic genius that is Gary Gygax and his pupil, Frank Mentzer. I'm sitting, staring at the BXCMI box sets, and they are wonders... true wonders. First, each one builds on the other, leading one down an eventual path of option, complexity, and fun... but each can also hold on its own, as well, relatively speaking (it might be hard to play Masters without anything else since your PCs wouldn't have access to low level spells... but, the rules in it, and that's what I mean, are self-contained.) Also, they have a "this is what to expect" and their covers are glorious: "This game requires no gameboard because the action takes place in your imagination. Face the challenge of masterful play. Battle creatures of legend. Quest for fabulous treasures." -- Master rules, Box IV. Hell, the solagn of TSR at the time says it all: Products of your Imagination.

If C&C can emulate anything... this is it.

[jman5000]

I agree 100% with that... for me the *only* problem with it is the first boxed set is called "basic" giving it the impression of it being somewhat less than the *advanced* version that sat side by side in most of the game stores that I visited when a kid.

Cheers,

J.

ps. I'd make one slight change to your last sentence

If C&C can emulate anything... this is it.

should read

If C&C should emulate anything... this is it.

[Omote]

serleran wrote:
I've been thinking, and that's usually a bad thing, but this is about the majestic genius that is Gary Gygax and his pupil, Frank Mentzer. I'm sitting, staring at the BXCMI box sets, and they are wonders... true wonders. First, each one builds on the other, leading one down an eventual path of option, complexity, and fun... but each can also hold on its own, as well, relatively speaking (it might be hard to play Masters without anything else since your PCs wouldn't have access to low level spells... but, the rules in it, and that's what I mean, are self-contained.) Also, they have a "this is what to expect" and their covers are glorious: "This game requires no gameboard because the action takes place in your imagination. Face the challenge of masterful play. Battle creatures of legend. Quest for fabulous treasures." -- Master rules, Box IV. Hell, the solagn of TSR at the time says it all: Products of your Imagination.

If C&C can emulate anything... this is it.

Cool post Serleran. Very cool.

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[Barrataria]

If I were CEO of TLG, I'd hire two people.

One to answer emails. That's all. No cons, no writing or editing. Just answering emails.

One to keep Davis' computer free of coffee and dog pee (I think that story is on the old board, probably lost forever).

That is all. I predict a 5000% increase in productivity.

BB

[3rd Eye]

Barrataria wrote:
If I were CEO of TLG, I'd hire two people.

One to answer emails. That's all. No cons, no writing or editing. Just answering emails.

I don't know whether to laugh, applaud, or cry.

Nice to know I'm not the only one, though

[serleran]

Calls work better. Always have.

[Barrataria]

serleran wrote:
Calls work better. Always have.

That's why I didn't say they need a receptionist
BB

[Omote]

serleran wrote:
Calls work better. Always have.

Yeah, maybe. But just what you want the Trolls doing all day is answering calls and keeping them from the REAL work they need to do.

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[Buttmonkey]

Barrataria wrote:
If I were CEO of TLG, I'd hire two people.

One to answer emails. That's all. No cons, no writing or editing. Just answering emails.

One to keep Davis' computer free of coffee and dog pee (I think that story is on the old board, probably lost forever).

That is all. I predict a 5000% increase in productivity.

BB

Nope, the CEO needs to hire 3 people. One, to handle the e-mails. Two, to handle the urine and coffee needs of the company. Three, a competent proof-reader to get rid of all of the bleeping spelling and punctuation errors. If I weren't so bleeping busy already, I'd volunteer to do the proof-reading myself.

[jman5000]

[quote="Buttmonkey"][quote="Barrataria"]If I were CEO of TLG, I'd hire two people.

One to answer emails. That's all. No cons, no writing or editing. Just answering emails.

One to keep Davis' computer free of coffee and dog pee (I think that story is on the old board, probably lost forever).

That is all. I predict a 5000% increase in productivity.

BB[/quote]

Nope, the CEO needs to hire 3 people. One, to handle the e-mails. Two, to handle the urine and coffee needs of the company. Three, a competent proof-reader to get rid of all of the bleeping spelling and punctuation errors. If I weren't so bleeping busy already, I'd volunteer to do the proof-reading myself.[/quote]

actually, there's no reason why this cannot be opensourced. there is already private forms on this forum. an easy way to catch this stuff IMO, would be for every product, create a password protected forum, and upon completion of each section, post it on the forum and let all us nit-pickers at it and tear it apart.

easy to establish ground rules could be established to prevent people from making recommendations to modify the content of the text.

cheers,

J.

[sandman]

I agree with Steve and especially Bowbe, he almost made me cry. My experience in rpgs is very similar to what he described.

People who play role playing games are geeks, I played a lot of games with may best friend in high school who was a base ball jock, but he was still a geek at heart. Geeks are becoming popular anyway. However what I consider geeks, nerds, goths etc are people who want something new and different from the majority. Many of these people are loners who tend to hang out with people of similar thought. I didnt play sports or join any clubs at school but I was always scouting for people to come to my house and play RPGs. Most of my friends in high school would not have started if I hadnt talked to them about RPGs and invited them over to play. Im a very introverted person but role playing gave me the motivation to get out and meet people. That is probably one of the reasons that I tend to avoid computer rpgs and online games. I need a face to face game. Board games might do the job, but they are too common and not intriguing enough to get people hooked and many of them do not encourage player interaction the way rpgs do.

I was introduced to rpgs by my moms boyfriend when I was 5 years old about a year after my mom left my dad. I played with my older brother and sister and some of our friends. The game was based on chainmail etc. but most of it was hand made by the GM including maps, rules and paper cut outs of monsters. We told the GM what we wanted to do and the GM told to roll a d20 and described what happened. My first character was a were bear and Ill remember him forever.

The last game I played in I ran a modified The Shadow of Yesterday game. The players were an 8 year old boy who played a miniature dragon prince, a 12 year girl who played a Incan village girl who was a master of Sajan(I didnt know what it was but she filled me in as we went) and a 12 year old girl who played an elven priestess-wizard who could speak to animals. Everyone had a blast.

Kids these days have a lot of imagination, unfortunately everybody seems to become more inhibited as they get older. The best role players are young kids, the younger the better. Adults are better at role playing when they are drinking to get rid of that inhibition.

In the beginning image is everything, fighting fantasy novels and the silly jokes in the first edition books helped with that for me when I was 8. In the end power is everything, the power to allow the players and the GM to do everything they want to do, or at least see the potential for it in the game almost immediately. One of the things I love about about role playing games is that you can play doom and shoot that pesky desk guy.

Pete