Rite Publishing Interview

[Panjumanju]

I don't know if anyone caught this interview or not. Dorkland! speaks with Steve Russell from Rite Publishing from Oct 29, 2012. They start talking about Amber and Lords of Gossamer and Shadow at about the 10 minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j55DlqTcCwQ

There are a few juicy details about the Lords of Gossamer and Shadow setting, the differences from the setting of Zelazny's Amber, and Steve Russell's feelings about Amber-clones, like Lords of Olympus.

//Panjumanju

[RPGPundit]

Well, I strongly agree with him that "the more Diceless RPGs the better"; but I do take a bit of umbrage with the claim that purchasing LoO would just be Amber-with-the-serial-numbers-filed off. I mean, given that of the two settings, from everything I've heard, LoGaS is probably going to be CLOSER to mimicking Amber than LoO is, and that in Lords of Olympus' case, of a 230 page rulebook, about 70-75 pages are rules (plus implied setting) while 160 (ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY) pages are pure setting, an incredibly detailed and rich setting that takes from the most classic myths of our civilization, and have nothing at all to do with the setting of Amber.

So yeah, I think that you get a pretty original game with LoO.  But hey, I understand, he wasn't on that interview to sell LoO, and I'm glad that he chose to speak positively about it, and emphasize that its a good thing in general to have Diceless-based games out there to bring new people in and keep the dream alive.

I have to admit I laughed out loud when I heard a guy so intimately involved with Pathfinder, of all things, claiming that the "brand name" will always outsell any other consideration. You'd think he'd know better there...

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[Panjumanju]

...LoGaS is probably going to be CLOSER to mimicking Amber than LoO is,...

Yeah, I caught that one, too - but I chalked it up to the fact that he admitted he hadn't read Lords of Olympus. Still, if you can get "support in concept" from someone who has not read the thing, it's a positive sign. He did express enough familiarity with LoO as a product in the market to recognise it as doing well.

(Frankly his mispronunciation of Tarot and niche bothered me more.)

//Panjumanju

[RPGPundit]

I feel very much the same way in supporting and being excited about LoGaS; by the way: I think that anyone who buys and likes LoGaS will want to buy and will like LoO.
If we had any brains, we'd be trying to co-promote our games at every turn!

And yeah, as something of an expert on Tarot (and husband to the owner of what is probably the largest tarot collection in south america), I certainly noticed that too, but I'm used to it by now, its a very common pronunciation error (and not the only one, besides "tare-ot" there's also the pretentious-sounding "T'arohhh", which I think is almost worse because its done by people who know the word and are trying to make it sound what they imagine to be "fancier").

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