07-12-2020, 12:19 PM | #4311 | |
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Re: So, how great is Kromm anyway?
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And I agree that Sean has done a good job. So you would have been 27-28 when you began working at SJG?
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07-12-2020, 01:12 PM | #4312 | |
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07-13-2020, 03:36 AM | #4313 |
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07-13-2020, 03:43 AM | #4314 | |
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For the record, GURPS became my favorite game system under your watch and when it comes to interacting and exchanging with the crowd, you have set the gold standard in my book. Never defensive, never arrogant, always helpful. I wish you could train and educate some game designers. |
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07-13-2020, 03:59 AM | #4315 |
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Re: So, how great is Kromm anyway?
Whenever you change something there are people who protest. GURPS 4th edition is a far more cohesive and comprehensive than the earlier editions. And psionics is no longer a world-domination scheme for 30 points.
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07-13-2020, 05:39 AM | #4316 |
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Re: So, how great is Kromm anyway?
I discovered GURPS in the early 90s in California. Magic and Martial Arts were my first two books. Reading those I discovered that I needed the Basic Set. And GURPS quickly became my favorite system when I could create the character I wanted without the limits on character creation set by other games I was familiar with.
And GURPS has gotten better since then!
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07-13-2020, 07:20 AM | #4317 |
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Re: So, how great is Kromm anyway?
First, more thanks to those who've thanked me. I'm happy to be the shepherd of GURPS. It's no way to get rich in terms of cash, but it definitely enriches the mind to do this work (the things I've learned!) . . . and creating stuff that lets people have fun is priceless.
And yes, there are certainly people who don't like my work: https://www.reddit.com/r/gurps/comme...unch_retiring/ https://www.therpgsite.com/showthrea...h-ruined-Gurps I just don't let it get to me.
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07-13-2020, 06:39 PM | #4318 |
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Re: So, how great is Kromm anyway?
For what it may be worth, I think you have done a wonderful job, with limited resources.
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07-15-2020, 12:33 PM | #4319 |
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Re: So, how great is Kromm anyway?
It's better to be loved and hated than neither; it means you've made a mark on the world and actually accomplished something that people have noticed. The best you can hope for is to have a good ratio of loved to hated. :)
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07-15-2020, 01:24 PM | #4320 |
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Re: So, how great is Kromm anyway?
I had to check some dates, but while I've been playing GURPS since the beginning and have had more direct entanglements with SJ Games not too long after that (my earliest credit is in GURPS Cyberpunk), I only started writing for GURPS a year or two after Sean took up his position, so my entire GURPS-writing career has been under the Benevolent Eye of Kromm.
I've been in and around publishing in various capacities for a while, and I am convinced of two things:
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