Ragnarok board design is just too cool! He and Terry did it up for TSR in '78 or so
Ethesis wrote: Ragnarok board design is just too cool! He and Terry did it up for TSR in '78 or soAbout 1980 would be my best guess. It is pretty cool, though.
harami2000 wrote:How so, Stephen? Does the timeframe for this fit into your summer work at TSR?At present the auction has 1978 stated multiple times and I'd already lobbed in a starter bid...http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 5198369832
harami2000 wrote:Question, aside.Paul, I noticed that the biography for Rob is a direct cut-and-paste from the forthcoming Lake Geneva Gaming Convention page, Error Occurred While Processing Request , with a few bits and bobs added around the edges.Did you write the original for that, too?
stormber wrote:Howdy David and Steve,harami2000 wrote:How so, Stephen? Does the timeframe for this fit into your summer work at TSR?At present the auction has 1978 stated multiple times and I'd already lobbed in a starter bid...http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 5198369832With respect to Steve and David, it has 1978 "multiple times" because that is when Rob said he and Terry designed it. I spent 16 hours! on the phone with Rob going over every item.
harami2000 wrote:Question, aside.stormber wrote:Paul, I noticed that the biography for Rob is a direct cut-and-paste from the forthcoming Lake Geneva Gaming Convention page, Error Occurred While Processing Request , with a few bits and bobs added around the edges.Did you write the original for that, too?Yes. It is adapted from my original biography without my permission, either someone cut and pasted it or Rob mailed it to them when requested. That's my text based on information from Allan Grohe's website blurb about Rob (with permission), a long interview with Rob, and Gateways 7 (which is in the auction).Honestly, I am getting very tired of all the crap about these auctions.
stormber wrote:Paul, I noticed that the biography for Rob is a direct cut-and-paste from the forthcoming Lake Geneva Gaming Convention page, Error Occurred While Processing Request , with a few bits and bobs added around the edges.Did you write the original for that, too?
stormber wrote:Honestly, I am getting very tired of all the crap about these auctions. Some guy on the Greyhawk Canonfire! website warned people that I was possibly the Eastern Treasure *Trove* (ala the Eastern Treasure *Chest*) and I had changed my name to The Collector's Trove and that I was a notorious eBay scumbag! The guy didn't even go out and do research (there was a link to my eBay user name and feedback), he just attacked blindly.
deimos3428 wrote:WindmillFrequency: UncommonNo. Appearing: 1-4AC: -2 (7)Move: 0" Hit Dice: 20No. of Attacks: 4Damage/Attack: 2-20...
harami2000 wrote:deimos3428 wrote:WindmillFrequency: UncommonNo. Appearing: 1-4AC: -2 (7)Move: 0" Hit Dice: 20No. of Attacks: 4Damage/Attack: 2-20...(Yeah, uncommon nowadays... )*takes a tilt at the endangered species, anyhow*Thanks for the smile, deimos!
deimos3428 wrote:I think I may have made them a wee bit too powerful, in retrospect. At least there are lots of playtesters around!
harami2000 wrote:stormber wrote:Honestly, I am getting very tired of all the crap about these auctions.Grow up, Paul. Was a civil question...
stormber wrote:Honestly, I am getting very tired of all the crap about these auctions.
harami2000 wrote:You might want to have a word with them for nicking your text and slapping their copyright message on it, in that case.*points to the bottom of the page*
harami2000 wrote:Ethesis wrote:About 1980 would be my best guess. It is pretty cool, though.How so, Stephen? Does the timeframe for this fit into your summer work at TSR?At present the auction has 1978 stated multiple times and I'd already lobbed in a starter bid...
Ethesis wrote:About 1980 would be my best guess. It is pretty cool, though.
Ethesis wrote:I was extrapolating from some projects, but Rob was outside of those ....I'd always wondered how I had proposed a game and it had gone around the design department and then when a game with the same name saw print it had absolutely nothing in common with my proposal -- if you've seen the proposal and Rob's game, Rob's game shows no influence at all from the proposal.If the game was done before TSR decided to do the board game project, and then added into the product line, it would make lots of sense for it to have nothing in common with the original proposals. My guess was that Rob did the game as a part of the product line, so it would have been done after the product line was started.But if Rob did the game, and then it was used for the product line, then it makes sense that it was done before -- as does the fact it bears no signs of having had contact with my approach -- which works if the game was done before I ever did my proposal.I'd always wondered about that.
stormber wrote:Sorry, I didn't place that line properly, no finger pointed at you. I was refering to the "borrowing" incident by TLG and the crackpot on Canonfire! Note I put, "With repsect to Steve and David..." prior to my answer of your question. Sorry for the intimation of displeasure at your question.
stormber wrote:harami2000 wrote:You might want to have a word with them for nicking your text and slapping their copyright message on it, in that case.*points to the bottom of the page*I suspect Rob or possibly Allan Grohe sent it, if so I can hardly be upset. If it was someone at TLG, then I'd be upset.
mbassoc2003 wrote:What happened to the City of Brass map auctions? Are there maps included with any of the City of Brass manuscripts? The photos don't seem to be working.
stormber wrote:The stuff posted to TLG website was done by Rob. He told them who wrote it but they did not credit me. Irksome but no big deal. Maybe I'll email them so they will at least plug Rob's auction.