Badmike wrote:It's much more than just the rant.

After having the chance to sit down and read this, I agree with Badmike.  This kid was angry.

When you see it, you'll understand.  The flyleaves are covered, top to bottom, with his "editorial" to EGG.  

While parts of it are typical of a 13-year-old -- "I've seen better heads on a zit" -- I found other aspects to be downright scary.

Any individual rant, taken alone, isn't so bad.  But in toto this "letter" really creeps me out.

His close ("yours truly") makes me wonder whether he photocopied this and mailed it to TSR or perhaps to Gygax himself.

Badmike wrote:
I would bet you almost anything that if you ran into this dude now, not only would he not remember ever playing D&D, he wouldn't even remember penning the infamous rant.  That or he died in a road rage incident.

Mike B.

LOL ... I was going to say he's working for WoTC.

Is there any way us peeps over in the UK can get a copy of the CD? I'd be more than happy to copy and distribute for the UK members, and I'm sure other UK members would be willing to do the same.

We've followed the thread, but we want to read the editorial as well.

Could someone send a copy over to someone in the UK?

sleepyCO wrote:Wonder if all of that writing was done all at once, or over a period of months or years?

It looks like he wrote it over a fairly short period of time ... maybe one sitting, maybe 3 or 4 short bursts, like machine gun fire  

Keith

So who gets the PHB next?

From the thread, it looks like it might be FormCritic (Mark), but I'm not sure.

Let me know and I'll send it out ... probably Friday.

Thanks,
Keith

Badmike wrote:
I think Mark was supposed to get it next.  We should see if it can end up in someones hands in August that is going to GenCon.  I seriously think at an Aceaum get together, over burgers and beer, we should have a ceremonial "Reading of the Perelman Rant" and make it an annual event.  Kosh, did you think someday you might have the most talked about PHB in existence??

Mike B.

I honestly did not think that it would go this far Mike  

But an annual reading at GenCon would be appropriate  

I just hope that I get to move back to Indy in the next year or two so that I can attend  

Going to graduate this summer, getting my Database Management degree, just hope that I can get a job over there (crosses fingers, knocks on wood)

PS  I just hope that I get it back...someday  

Badmike wrote:
I think Mark was supposed to get it next.  We should see if it can end up in someones hands in August that is going to GenCon.  I seriously think at an Aceaum get together, over burgers and beer, we should have a ceremonial "Reading of the Perelman Rant" and make it an annual event.  Kosh, did you think someday you might have the most talked about PHB in existence??

Mike B.

Who has the book at the moment?

Why bother burning it onto CD and posting it, won't it make more sense to slap it up onto the likes of Rapidshare and making the link accessable to all here for them to download? Saves a lot of time and postage methinks.

Ooo I wanna see... yeah an online link thingie would be great.. cheaper too. let us know! otherwise I'll pm my address.. I wanna read this stuff