Recent content by jerich01

This has been a very cool discussion and one of the few I've seen here that's actually be worth following... That being said there are some fallacious points being bandied about and it seems a few folks are trying to catch up... So: Is GT:IW "canonical", "official", something for the bird's...

Sorry, my bad I was referring to real businesses not the gaming wet dreams of some fanboy; and before someone yells, yes, there have been some awesome PDF wet dreams out there... The companies I have worked for/with have all been companies composed of folks who made their living doing game...

Oh if this were only true; but as we live in a world driven by finance it is indeed that elusive, subjective "fun" that does drive game design, be it RPG's or Video Games or whatnot. You are correct that no one side can say their fun is more or less valid but in going behind the scenes as a...

I am going to step out on a limb here (or given the tempo of the conversation maybe out into open space). No game needs to be realistic; not one. However, every game needs to be "true" to its setting and milieu. If a game is space fantasy (i.e. Star Wars or Star Trek) it has to be true to...

I've played CT since day 1; in fact until d20 I'd played almost all RPG's released in the US, Germany, France and Japan... I had way too much free time on my hands. I continued to run CT games until last year when I stopped playing for a while. The T5 announcement got me reinterested and a...

Well I bought the initial releases for both - given what I now know about both I'm still on the fence. Really what's going to determine which I play is what folks around here have. I do like the T5 version both for what I've seen recently and also for nostalgia's sake. The other benefit is...

After lurking on this list for a while and then going back through any recent documents we are: 1) Complaining about something we haven't seen. 2) Arguing about a 15-20 year old system 3) Not really proposing a coherent alternative (though since we've only seen playtest docs this is probably...