Quote from: deadDMwalking;1126111That's crazy.  I mean, there isn't enough money in an RPG to afford that even if the bribes are splitting a pizza level of corruption.

That's the logical stance, but humans aren't logical. It's truly bizarre how many times I've heard about whackass level corruption for stuff like school science faires and church bake sales. For whatever reason, the human mind gains great pleasure from petty actions, so you see truly nutbag stories arrive from competitions worth pennies in an economic scope, but massive value to some human egos.

According to Goodreads, "Daniel D. Fox is the executive creative director of games at Andrews McMeel Universal."

I am quite confused. To me, it appears Mr. Fox is maliciously slandering RPGPundit from his position of Executive Creative Director at Andrews McMeel. That is concerning.

Apparently, Andres McMeel has a Director attempting to harm a competing publisher. As we know, both Lion & Dragon and Zweihander are both competing in the same space of medieval fantasy games. Outright lying to gain financial advantage against a competing product is very inappropriate, and I highly doubt such business practice is legal.

Here is Andrews McMeel Universal's About Us page with the names and positions of their entire Executive Staff. The company phone number and address in Kansas City is at the bottom of the page. The company invites you visit their YouTube channel, Facebook and Instagram pages, also LinkedIn.

And let's not forget their Twitter.

All this makes me wonder how Games Workshop feels about Andrews McMeel publishing a Warhammer ripoff. I wonder if McMeel's CEO Andy Sareyan and CFO Les Hinmon are aware of the potential IP conflicts? Or if they are aware how their company is being represented online by their employee?

So many questions about why Andrews McMeel's Director is behaving in this manner. It certainly does not make me want to support his employer or buy books from other McMeel's authors.

it is at this point i'd get a pic of fox and photoshop his head onto the girl in as many stills from episodes of blacked that i could find, then scatter them far and wide across the net, maybe make postcards of them and send them to all his business associates and such. i'd just get plum damn stupid with it, thats really the only way to handle stupid, derision, scorn, belittle and attack it, make it learn that just because it can draw attention doesn't mean it will be good attention or bring about the desired outcome. my cousin actually did something similar to me once, spreading lies and such, so i cuckolded him and she left him, sticking him with child support out the wazoo. we had a good fist fight at a funeral, i won because he cannot fight his way out of a paper bag and i was defying physics trying to put the folding chair inside him, which he probably liked, and now he's been sweetness and light for about a decade since. only calls when he wants something.

Quote from: remial;1126021don't know if anyone saw this on reddit, but here...

https://medium.com/@ZweihanderRPG/april-6th-2020-public-statement-by-daniel-d-fox-regarding-john-tarnowksi-rpg-pundit-87a472e91705

Dan has an interesting memory of how things went down, doesn't he?

and apparently EVERYONE on 4chan is one of pundit's followers, cos anytime his game comes up, the immediate reaction in any thread is "Fuck off, Dan"

I have to be honest, I have a copy of the main rule book, and the rules, from what I have read, are ok. they aren't great, but they aren't terrible, and they sure aren't groundbreaking like he seems to think they are.  The art is shit. sure it is better than what I could create, but personally I'd rather have a game book with no art than a book with shit art.

(what really bugs me about the book is he released a revised rule book and has no plans to make an errata, you just need to buy the new version, instead of using the old version and having a file of updates)

Which RPG are you critiquing there?  Lion & Dragon, or something created by the other person being discussed here?  I own a copy of Lion & Dragon myself, but I only want to comment on L&D, if that is the RPG you are describing.

I can't speak to all this fol-de-rol but I will say that with a cleaned up, good, solid scan of Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play available as a PDF to purchase at DTRPG/RPGNow (and, given that you can get prints in hardback or softback done at lulu and other online print-shops) there's absolutely zero need for Zweihander.

Play the original.

Quote from: Razor 007;1126176Which RPG are you critiquing there?  Lion & Dragon, or something created by the other person being discussed here?  I own a copy of Lion & Dragon myself, but I only want to comment on L&D, if that is the RPG you are describing.

sorry, I was talking about Fox's Zweihander. I got it in large part because one of my friends is a big warhammer fan, and he was buying it and going to run it.
then he moved out of state.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;1126297I can't speak to all this fol-de-rol but I will say that with a cleaned up, good, solid scan of Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play available as a PDF to purchase at DTRPG/RPGNow (and, given that you can get prints in hardback or softback done at lulu and other online print-shops) there's absolutely zero need for Zweihander.

Play the original.

I've got like 3 copies of WFRP 1st ed. One I bought new when Hogshead had the license, and the other 2 I picked up at used book stores for $4 each (one is even Games Workshop's printing!)

Quote from: remial;1126322I've got like 3 copies of WFRP 1st ed. One I bought new when Hogshead had the license, and the other 2 I picked up at used book stores for $4 each (one is even Games Workshop's printing!)

SWEET.  I have 2 hardback GW prints.  Love them!

I actually took a stab at a 40k rewrite based on WFRP a little while ago.  It drifted a bit off course of course.  My notion was to do a setting that had all the elements but with different names and situations.  I will get it done one of these days.  I may even do a fantasy version.

So I get to step online for the first time in quite a bit and here this is third from the top and all I can say is what the hell.
I remember the falling out being bad but Jesus what the hell is up with this guy? This is insane.
All i can say is good luck pundit I think you need it.
(small note I do have a post in regards to why I think cyberpunk is still important life got in the way when I get it finished I may end up doing some thread necromancy)

Warhammer 1e is a truly glorious game.

Quote from: kosmos1214;1126355(small note I do have a post in regards to why I think cyberpunk is still important life got in the way when I get it finished I may end up doing some thread necromancy)

Please do! One of the things I enjoy about theRPGsite is thread necromancy is allowed. I'm always happy to talk more cyberpunk!

Quote from: kosmos1214;1126355So I get to step online for the first time in quite a bit and here this is third from the top and all I can say is what the hell.
I remember the falling out being bad but Jesus what the hell is up with this guy? This is insane.
All i can say is good luck pundit I think you need it.
(small note I do have a post in regards to why I think cyberpunk is still important life got in the way when I get it finished I may end up doing some thread necromancy)

Thank you.

Quote from: kosmos1214;1126355I remember the falling out being bad but Jesus what the hell is up with this guy? This is insane.

If I was cynical, which I am, I might guess that this is about making a whole lot of noise for the sake of drawing attention to himself and his product. There's no such thing as bad publicity and all that, something (fuck off) Daniel has proven is true and there's nothing like some drama to get you that much.

In any case, good luck Pundit though I'm sure you'll be fine. The usual suspects already 'know' you're Hitler incarnate anyway so I doubt this is going to change many minds.

Quote from: kosmos1214;1126355So I get to step online for the first time in quite a bit and here this is third from the top and all I can say is what the hell.
I remember the falling out being bad but Jesus what the hell is up with this guy? This is insane.
All i can say is good luck pundit I think you need it.
(small note I do have a post in regards to why I think cyberpunk is still important life got in the way when I get it finished I may end up doing some thread necromancy)

Well; when you are already the undisputed final boss of internet shitlords, it's pointless for someone to attempt to drag your name through the mud.  What can they possibly accomplish, by doing so?

Quote from: Snark Knight;1126382There's no such thing as bad publicity and all that, something (fuck off) Daniel has proven is true and there's nothing like some drama to get you that much.

Not exactly true. As TSR actually learned the hard way. They thought the bad publicity from the Satanic Panic would be good for sales. But it caused so much damage and loss that Gary stated he sorely regretted not fighting it. Then theres bad publicity of the smear tactic sort which can and will oft damage a product. And a bad rep on a product or IP can linger a long long time.

Anyone who thinks theres no such thing as bad publicity is a raging moron. Pundit, Zak, anyone else knows this allready.