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RPG Authors & Celebrity

Started by RPGPundit, January 21, 2009, 11:55:39 PM

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Anon Adderlan

#30
January 23, 2009, 05:00:38 PM
It's really hard to think of them as celebrities when you feel you know them personally.

Quote from: Silverlion;279885No its much lower behavior: Disrespecting the very people you expect to buy your product,

I agree, but with a caveat: Customers can be just as disrespectful. Worse, the behavior of your customers online often has a greater effect on whether someone buys your RPG, and if they're alienating the kind of customers you want, it's just sometimes better to tell them to fuck off.

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Not in so many words mind you :)

shalvayez

#31
January 24, 2009, 04:42:38 PM
Other than Gygax, there is no other celebrity in RPGS. That established, the relevant infamy of writers such as Siembieda  is non-existent outside of the RPG industry.

So, with all that said, if somebody is a cockweasel, I'm less inclined to help put food in front of their brats' faces. Especially for a shit product like Palladium or Rifts. So, that being said, I will not buy a game released by CavScout.
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CavScout

#32
January 24, 2009, 06:00:22 PM
Quote from: shalvayez;280278So, with all that said, if somebody is a cockweasel, I'm less inclined to help put food in front of their brats' faces. Especially for a shit product like Palladium or Rifts. So, that being said, I will not buy a game released by CavScout.

Well, at least me and your ex-wife agree that you are a fucktard.
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shalvayez

#33
January 25, 2009, 01:44:33 AM
Quote from: CavScout;280281Well, at least me and your ex-wife agree that you are a fucktard.

Better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.
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#34
January 25, 2009, 01:18:34 PM
Quote from: shalvayez;280278Other than Gygax, there is no other celebrity in RPGS. That established, the relevant infamy of writers such as Siembieda  is non-existent outside of the RPG industry.

There is such a thing as subcultural celebrity, you know.

Someone who isn't into pipes will probably have no idea who Alfred Dunhill was, or Aldo Montini, or G.L. Pease, or Piers Nording. But thousands of people would know who that is, all of them having in common that they'd be pipe smokers.

 Siembieda will not be known by anyone who doesn't roleplay, but he has sold hundreds of thousands of books with his name on it, and is likely known, at least in passing, by millions of people.

So claiming he's not a celebrity in the sense that George Clooney is a celebrity is technically accurate.
On the other hand claiming that he's a non-celebrity the way you are a non-celebrity is not accurate.

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January 26, 2009, 04:44:00 AM
Quote from: RPGPunditThere is such a thing as subcultural celebrity, you know.

This I totally agree with. Today, however, there are very few authors that could even claim that. Gygax and Siembieda are far from the tabletop names of Cook and ummmmm. . . Monte Cook. He's the only RPG author I've ever seen with his name come before a title on a cover.

Really, I don't think any other author could even call themselves a RPG celebrity. Even Siembieda is damn near a direct salesman of his games.
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flyingmice

#36
January 26, 2009, 09:32:26 AM
Quote from: KrakaJak;280470This I totally agree with. Today, however, there are very few authors that could even claim that. Gygax and Siembieda are far from the tabletop names of Cook and ummmmm. . . Monte Cook. He's the only RPG author I've ever seen with his name come before a title on a cover.

Really, I don't think any other author could even call themselves a RPG celebrity. Even Siembieda is damn near a direct salesman of his games.

Well, there is "Tim Kirk's Hearts and Souls," my favorite supers game. :D

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Cranewings

#38
January 26, 2009, 11:40:14 AM
I think it is hard for RPG authors to have real celebrity sense most gamers think that they could have done a better job.

Cranewings

#39
January 26, 2009, 11:55:33 AM
Quote from: shalvayez;280313Better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.

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Balbinus

#40
January 26, 2009, 12:05:16 PM Last Edit: January 26, 2009, 12:07:27 PM by Balbinus
Personalities no, I mean I won't say never because who knows what one might do, but it never has to date.

Past work, obviously.  If Jon Snead's name is on a magic system, I'll look twice.  He writes better magic systems than any other designer I know.

Similarly, Dennis Detwiller, Ken Hite, Greg Stolze, any of those names gets a second glance, but not guaranteed purchase, there's plenty of Hite and Stolze I've not picked up despite my regard for both in terms of quality.

But if say a particular designer alternates between game design and posting on //www.hatefilledbigots.com that's not really my business.
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