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Games where the Author themselves turned you off the game

Started by PoppySeed45, December 01, 2010, 03:22:38 PM

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Koltar

#15
December 01, 2010, 11:00:21 PM
Quote from: Werekoala;422072RPG writers are supposed to toil away in complete obscurity for pennies a page instead of becoming a marketing ploy, donchaknowthat?

Not exactly - but I did get sick of seeing his name.


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Planet Algol

#16
December 01, 2010, 11:54:16 PM
Quote from: Koltar;422076Not exactly - but I did get sick of seeing his name.


- Ed C.

Steve Jackson...
Yeah, but who gives a fuck? You? Jibba?

Well congrats. No one else gives a shit, so your arguments are a waste of breath.

Benoist

#17
December 02, 2010, 12:02:11 AM
Quote from: Cole;422061I think of it as marketing rather than ego.
It's what it was for Monte. I've never asked the question directly, but it would have been foolish not to use the name after the success of the Book of Eldritch Might.

GeekEclectic

#18
December 02, 2010, 12:05:16 AM
Quote from: Planet Algol;422107Steve Jackson...

Ooooooo, burn! :teehee:
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Silverlion

#19
December 02, 2010, 12:10:47 AM
Just so you know, my game Hearts & Souls says Tim Kirk's Hearts & Souls on the cover. I didn't design the cover, or even plan that. High Valor leaves my name off completely.

I like authors who are generally nice to their fans/purchaser's of their product, and generally doesn't belittle them.

If they do such things? I'm usually out.
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mhensley

#20
December 02, 2010, 06:42:04 AM
Quote from: Planet Algol;422107Steve Jackson...

Has he actually written anything besides Munchkin in the last 20 years?

DKChannelBoredom

#22
December 02, 2010, 08:42:56 AM
There's this rpgpundit-guy, I wouldn't touch anything he'd written with a 10-foot pole :)

Nah, I'm with Seanchai I wouldn't want to stop playing/reading something good just because the writer is a douche. Not in rpgs, not in "normal" literature.
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#23
December 02, 2010, 09:30:12 AM
Quote from: AnthonyRoberson;422207Bruce Baugh...

Color me interested. He did a great job with Adventure!.
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#24
December 02, 2010, 09:57:28 AM
Quote from: danbuter;422227Color me interested. He did a great job with Adventure!.

I think he mostly did the initial concept on Adventure. His WoD work was pretentious crap.

ColonelHardisson

#25
December 02, 2010, 11:35:57 AM
Quote from: Planet Algol;422107Steve Jackson...

That has to be the most perfect T-Ball set-up and subsequent knock outta the park I've seen in a long time. Well done, sir.
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#26
December 02, 2010, 11:39:02 AM
Quote from: mhensley;422193Has he actually written anything besides Munchkin in the last 20 years?

Not that I know of, but that's either beside the point or completely on-point - his name is emblazoned on tons of stuff, including tons that he didn't even write. That could seem arrogant and egotistical to some, and is a perfect counterpoint to Koltar's trouncing of Monte Cook.
"Illegitimis non carborundum." - General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell

4e definitely has an Old School feel. If you disagree, cool. I won\'t throw any hyperbole out to prove the point.

Doom

#27
December 02, 2010, 11:58:04 AM
Yeah, Betrayal at Krondor....so bad with names (and so many games....).

Didn't play it enough to remember anything about it. I might have played it more than I think, now that I think about it, or maybe I'm just confusing it with one of a dozen other faceless games.

But I sure remember the interview with Feist, wow did he not come across well.
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#28
December 02, 2010, 11:58:38 AM
I annoyed some complete twat when I quoted Grim's comment about using he because its gramatically correct and to mock the poltically correct bullshit of those who use she.

To be fair though someone who takes things like that seriously wouldn't like a spoof WoD anyway.
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Koltar

#29
December 02, 2010, 12:04:07 PM
Quote from: ColonelHardisson;422271Not that I know of, but that's either beside the point or completely on-point - his name is emblazoned on tons of stuff, including tons that he didn't even write. That could seem arrogant and egotistical to some, and is a perfect counterpoint to Koltar's trouncing of Monte Cook.

NOT a "counterpoint" if its the name of a company.

Of all the game designers I've met at conventions - Jackson was one of the least egotistical.  Heck, at the con he was so easygoing and friendly to new gamers that he probably made people even more loyal to SJ Games.

Ron Edwards I have met at a con (or two).  I'll never buy a game that he's designed or written.


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This is what a really cool FANTASY RPG should be like :
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