Most of the Scarred Lands setting books were rather nice, and fairly creative. Blood Bayou was particularly enjoyable.

"I'm going back some day, come what may to blood bayou."

yew schurr do have a pretty mouth, Frodo.

The review covered as much as it could. I really never finished it. I ordered the book in January of this year in good faith to show there was a book and to look in to the controversy surrounding the book.
Then I became part of the controversy when Randy tried to discredit me. You see, Randy could not stand the fact I gave him a "C" in my overall score of the book. So he attacked me on the Necromancer site and sent out e-mails to members of the site telling them I was some ex of his with an axe to grind.
To funny.
So I keep an eye on the boy to see where he turns up. First at coastcon where he tears in to them and gets ousted then he pops up at the wiki site to blow his own horn as it were.
The whole thing is more sad than funny. He lives in this little world where he's some form of super star. He basically sits in his ez board site and tells himself how great he is. Goes to wiki where he can't delete the things about himself that seem to be less than the star image so out come the conspiracy theories and the so called haters or anti fans.

Q

Quote from: RPGPunditBut has anyone, ever, who is confirmably not an alt of this guy actually seen the book?

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One of the gamestores where I used to live had a copy and I saw it. (didn't bother to pick it up to flip through, though now I almost wish that I had.)

Quote from: QuodeSo I keep an eye on the boy to see where he turns up. First at coastcon where he tears in to them and gets ousted then he pops up at the wiki site to blow his own horn as it were.

I never exactly cought it, what was the deal with him and CoastCon? If someone could point me to a link or give me the short version it would be cool.

Oh, to jump back to page 2, (I'm on dial-up now after my move and can't work through as many threads as I'd like) When Clark Peterson said that "The Wizard's Amulet" was the first D20 adventure, what he isn't mentioning was that they managed it by having it go "live" for dload on thier website at a second past midnight on the first day such adventures were allowed. (it's a great lead in to one of the coolest d20 adventures ever imho, The Crucible of Freya. Was more recently updated as well. The idea was that with that short intro adventure and the PHB that had just come out you could be running your first adventure in 15 min or so.)

I called my coast buddy. He lives here in Jackson now, but lived on the coast all of his life and is a lifelong gamer. He has family and friends there and goes down all of the time. He said that there has never, ever been a Spellbinder Books. EVER.

Also, you know, whenever I go to the coast I visit the gaming stores that I know about. This is a thing that I do. Any time I go out of town I search out gaming stores in an ongoing quest for vintage gaming material.

I can guaran-damn-tee you that I would have sussed out this Spellbinder place on one of those trips.

And as someone who was no doubt affected by the Hurricane, how do you feel about the fact that this slimy little worm made up stories invoking Katerina for sympathy in order to benefit personally?

If I was there, I'd say it'd be time to call a few of the good ole boys down round his parts, you know, ones who actually LOST EVERYTHING instead of just lying about losing everything, and just let them know about this guy and what he's done.

Then let nature take its course.

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Not only that... his day job involves selling photos of the hurricane damage:

http://www.dancebackwards.com/

http://dell.shutterfly.com/progal/gallery.jsp?gid=768a5498ce7c6af52212

This guy is milking the Katrina disaster for all the money it's worth.

Yup, if someone desperately deserves being severely beaten by a gang of good ole boys riding in on the back of a pickup-truck, its this guy.

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Quote from: RPGPunditAnd as someone who was no doubt affected by the Hurricane, how do you feel about the fact that this slimy little worm made up stories invoking Katerina for sympathy in order to benefit personally?

If I was there, I'd say it'd be time to call a few of the good ole boys down round his parts, you know, ones who actually LOST EVERYTHING instead of just lying about losing everything, and just let them know about this guy and what he's done.

Then let nature take its course.

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It's pretty shitty, but he wouldn't be the first or only person to do such a thing. I was fortunate to live upland from where the hurricane hit, but we were without electricity and all of its associated comforts for about a week, and the gas situation was kind of touch and go.

I was involved in the response effort as an employee of a public agency, and it was terrible to see what happened down there. My life was a freakin pic-nic where I was compared to what those folks went through.

The Gulf Coast looked like a nuclear bomb went off. Entire towns went missing.

Quote from: RPGPunditYup, if someone desperately deserves being severely beaten by a gang of good ole boys riding in on the back of a pickup-truck, its this guy.

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Strangely, I really don't know too many of those sorts of folks. At least not well.
Ixnay on the Iolencevay.

Aw come on, you live where you do and you don't know any banjo-playing yokels who beat on anyone who looks at em funny?
That'd be like living in New Jersey and not knowing any fat italian guys who might just be able to get a cousin of theirs to break some guy's legs.
Or me living where I do and not knowing someone who can funnel a few million worth in drug money with a couple of well-placed bribes.

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Maybe you and I have different definitions of "know". I have seen people like this, but I don't know any. I avoid those kind of people like they're the plague, Pundit.
I actually live in a comparatively urban locale, at least compared to the rest of the state.
I totally stand out as a "city" guy when I venture forth into the rural hinterlands. They can smell their own.

Quote from: J ArcaneIt wouldn't do any good.  Wikipedia does not recognize "original research".  If you can't link to some damn website somewhere that proves it, they won't believe it.

Yeah, I never understood that rule of theirs. I mean... they say you must not,

• Do original research.
• Create a wiki article about it on wikipedia.

But you can -

• Do original research
• Create a website about it.
• Create a wiki article about the outside-of-wikipedia work.

A bit strange...

Quote from: mattormegI totally stand out as a "city" guy when I venture forth into the rural hinterlands. They can smell their own.

Smells like...?

You probably know, JimBob, Australia (outside of the cities) is Redneck central, isn't it?