Official Amber/Erick Wujcik Forum?

[Settembrini]

write in threads about Amber, TMNT, Mystic China, or anything else Erick was involved in; as well as a place where Erick can talk about his upcoming projects, and start threads about general topics or GM advice.

Awesomeawesomeawesome!!!!!!!111111one11111eleventy!!!

[Blackleaf]

If Eric is going to be posting and participating in the discussion, this is very cool.  I played a lot of TMNT when I was younger, and getting Eric's thoughts on designing and running RPGs would be great!

[Geek Messiah]

Although Not official there is an Amber Discussion Forum over at the forum I used to own (and is now owned by a guy name StrongBlade).  This is also a fill in "official" forum since GOO is gone:

http://www.goofanforums.com

[Blackleaf]

I don't think there can be an "official" GoO forum, now that GoO is no more.  The URL doesn't make it look all that "official" either.

[Erick Wujcik]

Although Not official there is an Amber Discussion Forum over at the forum I used to own (and is now owned by a guy name StrongBlade).  This is also a fill in "official" forum since GOO is gone:

http://www.goofanforums.com

Thanks for posting! I had no idea this existed!

Erick

[Hastur T. Fannon]

It'll be a place to start and write in threads about Amber, TMNT, Mystic China, or anything else Erick was involved in; as well as a place where Erick can talk about his upcoming projects, and start threads about general topics or GM advice.

You did TMNT?!?! I have really fond memories of munching that game - I think it turned me into the ethical munchkin that I am today.  "No, I really, really want to examine the social and political implications of playing an miniature blue whale.  The fact I get 80 bonus points by buying his size down from 20 to 6 and I only need 45 of them to give him full hands, feet and the power of speech has absolutely nothing to do with it."

But seriously, I think this forum is a great idea

[blakkie]

Er... Sorry, but aren't you the one who does that? I certainly haven't started any of those.

Maybe you didn't notice, he said swine. So back off, his acknowledging that he has a problem is a good first step. :mischief:

[blakkie]

To answer a lot of the questions...

The idea is that Erick Wujcik (that's me) would moderate the forum, just as RPGPundit moderates 'The RPGPundit's Own Forum' - albeit with a tad less venom.

Amber Diceless would be one of the subjects, but I'd also weigh on in other subjects of the day, including perspectives on role-playing games in general, opinions and observations about my day job (digital games), and other stuff.

With a heavy dose of talk about my various experimental games. The kind of thing I run for friends, or at conventions and other outings, ranging from my 'Hard Science RPGs' to various role-playing systems and scenarios.

Your opinions?

Erick

Erick Wujcik
//www.47rpg.com

That sounds like stuff I'd really like to read about. It would be great to have your comments on that stuff around here.

I will ask though, isn't the subject material overlapping with multiple forums here? For example there is already an "Electronic Games and Other Games" forum and a "Craft" forum. Maybe this could be part of a reorg?  Or I'd just welcome Erick as a frequent poster here at this forum and just call the thing a Potpourri [without the flowery aroma]. Or another forum named "Potpourri With Erick". With some Kenny G background music?

Speaking of reorg I don't get exactly why "Craft" and "Design" are separate (take a look at the thread/post counts). Even reviewing the description I don't really get it (even setting aside the rhetoric of the "Design" description). But then the "Design" forum could drop off the face of the earth and I'd not really care one bit, so maybe I'm biased? *shrug*

[James McMurray]

Sounds interesting, but if the threads appear in the forums they would naturally fall into you're likely to get move coverage from people that don't play Amber and don't know who Erick is. For example a thread in an Amber subforum is very unlikely to get anyone interested in the game that isn't already, but an Amber thread in the main forum might.

It worked for Nobilis.

[Mcrow]

Sounds good. I'm a Wujcik fan.

[Ian Absentia]

You all underestimated the Pundit, didn't you? Didn't you??

Sadly, it's been increasingly easy to do.

Slam firmly in place, finding out that it would be Erick Wujcik's forum to discuss Amber (and apparently other of his games) and not your forum to deride any game that you feel detracts from Amber, I found myself quite amenable to the idea.  I want to hear from him, not you.

Oh, but then you had to go and add this...

...I don't care if the swine start up a million billion threads about Nobilis, it would NEVER have a subforum here.

...which suggests to me that you're purposefully setting this site up to favor games you like, and not RPGs in general.  You go on and on about how "honest" you are and how you'll never abuse your administrative authority, then you propose something like this.

Sorry, I have to say no.  If your desire is to promote one game over another -- any game over any other -- then be "honest" and set up a separate site.  Or rename this site "TheAMBERsite.com" and dispense with any cross-traffic.  And, you know, the funny thing is that I probably wouldn't have had any problem with this proposition if you hadn't been expressing such an editorial hard-on to promote Amber at the expense of Nobilis.

!i!

[David R]

Sorry, I have to say no.  If your desire is to promote one game over another -- any game over any other -- then be "honest" and set up a separate site.  Or rename this site "TheAMBERsite.com" and dispense with any cross-traffic.  And, you know, the funny thing is that I probably wouldn't have had any problem with this proposition if you hadn't been expressing such an editorial hard-on to promote Amber at the expense of Nobilis.

!i!

Although I get where you  going when you say this, I have to say, the idea of Erick, having a playground to discuss his ideas trumps my disdain for the Pundit and his most times delusional rants . (I'm still surprised that there are designers who take him seriously...) But, hey we got a lot of folks here who design games I like - Clash for instance - so, the draw for me, is having one more designer voice (albeit in a forum of his own) out his opinons on stuff...

Regards,
David R

[ColonelHardisson]

Now, if any other bigger-name gaming author is reading this and would be similarly interested in having his own special forum dedicated to him (Mike? Mr. Gygax?), just send me a PM and we'll talk!

Gygax already has his own forum over at Dragonsfoot, and has a series of Q&A threads at EN World that have been going on for years now.

---Pedantic Spikey

[RPGPundit]

Sounds good, I had forgotten about Gygax's forum over at Dragonsfoot.  This will give Erick the same opportunity in this forum, then.

As for the question of "overlap": This forum would fall into the same "vanity forum" category as my own "Pundit's forum", one that recognizes the significance of Mr.Wujcik's particular work.  I'm also directly hoping that it will draw in new members from Amber fansites etc.

As for the accusation that this is an "editorial decision" to encourage the promotion of certain games on this site and detract others, well of course it fucking is.  That's the point of this entire site, shithead! Its to create a place where RPGs that are based on solid mainstream principles of play are loved and promoted, and NOT a place to give "equal time" to all games regardless of how overflowing with pretentious manure and unplayability said games are.
So yes, it is directly an editorial decision.
Yes, it is to specifically promote Amber and its worth and significance in the RPG world over other less meritorious games.
It must really suck for the Swine to finally run into a site where the people making the "editorial decisions" aren't THEIR editors, huh?
Suck me.

RPGpundit

[Mcrow]

As for the accusation that this is an "editorial decision" to encourage the promotion of certain games on this site and detract others, well of course it fucking is.  That's the point of this entire site, shithead!  

~sometimes you seem speak in cryptic german. It leaves me wondering how you actually feel on some subjects. :killingme: