Comments | alanajoli: A Grand Return?

alanajoli

A Grand Return?

Mar 13, 2008 22:26

Perhaps not so grand, but here I am, none the less!

It has been a busy four months or so, and though I'm not at a break between projects (I have plenty left to do on the adventure for Serenity Adventures, as well as some work for Rick Hershey on the Steampunk Musha RPG he has in the works), I am at a break between have-it-in-by-now-or-it's-late ( Read more... )

serenity adventures, james wyatt, 4e, living forgotten realms, andrew schneider, cons, living kingdoms of kalamar, steampunk musha, greece and turkey trip, shawn merwin, the edge of propinquity, the valley, ed greenwood

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sartorias March 14 2008, 03:00:20 UTC

Good to see you back, and it sounds like you are doing totally awesome stuff!

alanajoli March 14 2008, 03:03:20 UTC

Thank you! It's going to take a bit longer to catch up on what everyone else is doing, I'm afraid. :)

I am absolutely loving the conversations on the MythSoc yahoo group, though. Thank you again for the prod in that direction.

pmoc March 14 2008, 04:22:37 UTC

Well, it's fun seeing you blogging again though. Although you are very wrong about 4E. Hey, do you do skype?

alanajoli March 14 2008, 19:57:48 UTC

Oh, ho, wrong am I? And how do you know, Mr. Smarty Party?

And yep, I'm totally skypeable. Should be my usual sn (alanajoli). What's yours? (Feel free to e-mail or facebook me the info.)

pmoc March 14 2008, 22:17:17 UTC

I'll have you know I consider myself to be a lifelong, albeit casual gamer. It just stinks of "Hey, let's retool our product to make it look like their (MMORPG's) products." Which reeks of lameness, marketing and corporate strategy. Whereas the rest of the product progression was to take the existing idea and improve, and flesh it out. This just reminds me of when every car dealer began offering "employee discount" prices when they saw how well the first guys were doing with it.

So give me 3.5 or give me Finger of Death! Which, coincidentally, I hear is being replaced with Finger of Mild Discomfort.

Don't doubt me, I'm in the future.

my skypename is paulpmoc cause some other user named oddpaul is better at the internet then I am.

alanajoli March 15 2008, 16:18:30 UTC

Hmmm... well, I can say that from the perspective of at least one of the guys designing 4e, that's not the model they were following. They played a lot of games (including some video games), took what they liked from all of them, and looked at how they could apply what they liked to what was good about d20. I don't know about all the designers, but I believe James Wyatt when he says that they really have been trying to make the best game possible. I also believe that Hasbro pushed them to start a new edition earlier than necessary--but I don't blame the designers for that!

Whether or not it will actually be the best game possible, who know? We certainly won't 'til we see the full rulebook. But from what I've already played, I'm looking forward to seeing more. :) (Also, since I plan to continue writing for the RPGA if possible, I'll have to convert anyway, so I might as well look forward to it.)

Adding you to skype right now!

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antonstrout March 14 2008, 13:14:08 UTC

dammit, I need to get a leetle more street cred as an author before I can start writing Serenity fanfic that gets published.. le sigh!

alanajoli March 14 2008, 20:12:54 UTC

It's more that you need to write for roleplaying games, since they're not doing official Serenity fiction at this point. :) Poor Steven Brust skzbrust already had his all written up before they decided not to release them in print, so he put it up online.