The Gaming Den

hermit wrote: It also omits the cross over into Magical Monk Mystery Tibet. But probably David A. Hill is uninformed about the biggest damn magical mystery being right across the border from Nepal.

As the guy who wrote SR's Tibet material, I'll say I am extremely relieved that this book didn't touch it.

Jay, I'm still finalizing my mental picture of who the players are and where they stand. Are you one of the few people still working for Catalyst? I'm just curious. No, I haven't been writing for Catalyst since 2008. I still keep in touch with the freelancers, but I had my falling out with Catalyst...

Heh, I'm not worried about Shadowrun's "realism collapse." First, the Dumpshock crowd plays up Shadowrun's realism considerably. I've never once killed an idea I thought was awesome because it might make SR less realistic. It's a setting with one foot firmly planted in fantasy. That said, ...

Wow, there's a lot here I want to reply to. On the Salt Lake City mana ebb: To be honest, I have no idea. I don't even recall writing those two shadowtalk comments. It's entirely possible I didn't write them, because Davidson Cole did add some writing to that chapter. Not that I'm pinning it on him,...

One central part of the Shadowrun setting is that no matter how badass the players are, ultimately the fate of the world is decided by men in suits. No one is irreplaceable, no one is invulnerable and the power lies with companies, bureaucracies and governments, not individuals. I'd say that statem...

Hey there. I just wanted to take a quick moment to back up Bobby on his version of events surrounding the Corruption notes. I was also present when this plotline was being pitched and I still have a copy of this Corruption document in my Google Mail box. Along with a nice, long conversation with ano...

It's all very arguable, because the contract itself was in question. If the contract had been upheld, then yes, it's entirely correct that it is a work for hire and the author owns no copyright on it. But the work for hire clause is stated in the contract, and if the contract itself is in violation,...

This is an honest question, so bear with me. Why is such a big deal made out of NDA's in the Gaming Industry? From my experience, they aren't much of a big deal in other parts of the entertainment industry. Was there some kind of incident in the past that made them important in Gaming? Clutch They ...

I find this amusing. When Catalyst started, they basically waved off a discussion about having a central NDA repository as something they'd get to at a later point. So it was basically up to the devs to collect NDAs for their freelancers. Since I'm in Chicago, and I wanted to be able to check who h...

I'd just like to say something about the NDA situation: several staff members, including myself, never signed one. The NDA situation at Catalyst was a complete mess. There was no way for a staff member to _check_ if someone had signed an NDA. No central database, not even an alphabetized filing cab...

But really, I want to talk about motives and sides for a moment. There are simply put: a lot more than two sides. And a lot more than two goals. Consider the motivation that Jay Levine claims (and which I believe): he wants to be personally financially secure, he wants Shadowrun products to be made...

Yeah, we held onto the drafts until there was really no more reason to. All of us would have preferred to see the book in print (a long dead possibility) or at least as a free e-book (a more recently dead possibility). So, with all of those avenues leading to dead ends, there was no more reason to k...

Here is a link to Sandstorm Productions, LLC. Notice the names here: Jennifer Harding, David Stansel-Garner, and Steve McQuillian. So, it appears that several of the refugees from CGL have formed their own company. LaughingMan's post indicated that this new company was one of the company's bidding ...

I count seven. I'll bold the ones that were actually published. Runner Havens Corporate Enclaves Feral Cities Cities of Intrigue (London and Denver, morphed into Spy Games ) War Zones (morphed into Desert Wars , Dogs of War , and now just War! ) Awakened Haunts (Metropole and New Orleans, canceled)...

Shadowrun has had space orbitals for quite awhile now.

It was an open-ended list, with more being added/discussed all the time. Runner Havens was the one that was most pinned down originally, and the rest were fuzzier. Remember when there was "Weird Places" on the list? "Weird Places" was the possible sixth book I mentioned. There w...

Some high quality talent is extremely easy for the new license holder of Shadowrun to pick up. Let's be real here: Ancient History was willing to continue working even while he was telling other freelancers that the company was outright lying to them (which they were), and only pulled his contracts...