Assistant GURPS Line Editor

Kromm · 08-12-2009, 01:56 PM

There will be a Daily Illuminator about this eventually, but GenCon is eating all the airtime right now, so . . .

After 14 years of running GURPS by myself, stealing hours from staff editors when I desperately needed help, I have a full-time accomplice: Rev. Pee Kitty, otherwise known as Jason "PK" Levine or simply PK. His official title is "Assistant GURPS Line Editor," and he started on Monday, August 10, 2009. He will gradually take over the day-to-day draft-reviewing and stats-checking of GURPS supplements, leaving me more time to plan products, edit, and write. When I'm planning or editing – and thus away from writing – PK will be doing some staff writing, too. In short, we'll be sharing the load. I'm still the boss of GURPS, reviewer of proposals, and court of last resort in all matters GURPS-ish, but PK is my official stand-in . . . so please give his rulings the same weight as my own!

For the curious, PK was chosen on the strength of many years of playtesting experience and stats-checking, most notably his heroic efforts on the three crunchiest books in the Fourth Edition gamut: GURPS Martial Arts, GURPS Powers, and GURPS Thaumatology. He also demonstrated serious stats-crunching and writing chops in the GURPS Creatures of the Night series and GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 5: Allies. His masterpiece, though, was writing GURPS Psionic Powers with so few rules hitches that I was relegated to commenting on style and usage. My feeling is that anybody capable of crunching that kind of crunch is up to the challenge!

So let's give a warm welcome to PK!

Turhan's Bey Company · 08-12-2009, 01:59 PM

Huzzah! Let us sacrifice a goat! Or something!

Humabout · 08-12-2009, 02:06 PM

I've got the goat, anyone have a knife?

Congrats, PK!

Crakkerjakk · 08-12-2009, 02:28 PM

Why sacrifice with a knife when you have a shotgun? Boom baby!

Congo rats, RPK. I've always enjoyed your take on things, and you always seem to have a talent for viewing things from the ground up.

You shall always be my favorite Pee Kitty.

capnq · 08-12-2009, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Crakkerjakk

Why sacrifice with a knife when you have a shotgun?

Tradition, of course. "An elegant weapon...for a more civilized age," and all that.

roguebfl · 08-12-2009, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by capnq

Tradition, of course. "An elegant weapon...for a more civilized age," and all that.

An Glaring Priests of Seth if they were armed with shot guns I'm sure most of the people I've gamed with would start humming dueling banjos ;)

Shrale · 08-12-2009, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company

Huzzah! Let us sacrifice a goat! Or something!

I'm jumping up and down for joy about PK -- and there's baby kittens under foot -- does that count !?

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Dragondog · 08-12-2009, 03:34 PM

Congrats PK!

Turhan's Bey Company · 08-12-2009, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Shrale

I'm jumping up and down for joy about PK -- and there's baby kittens under foot -- does that count !?

As long as you're ritually jumping up and down, I think you're good.

Mark Skarr · 08-12-2009, 03:39 PM

It's cool, guys. I've sacrificed some books to him.

I gave RPK my copy of GURPS Magic and one of my extra copies of Heavy Gear. It's cool. Trees have been sacrificed.

08-12-2009, 01:56 PM	#1
Kromm *GURPS* Line Editor Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Montréal, Québec	Assistant GURPS Line Editor There will be a Daily Illuminator about this eventually, but GenCon is eating all the airtime right now, so . . . After 14 years of running *GURPS* by myself, stealing hours from staff editors when I desperately needed help, I have a full-time accomplice: Rev. Pee Kitty, otherwise known as Jason "PK" Levine or simply PK. His official title is "Assistant *GURPS* Line Editor," and he started on Monday, August 10, 2009. He will gradually take over the day-to-day draft-reviewing and stats-checking of *GURPS* supplements, leaving me more time to plan products, edit, and write. When I'm planning or editing – and thus away from writing – PK will be doing some staff writing, too. In short, we'll be sharing the load. I'm still the boss of *GURPS, reviewer of proposals, and court of last resort in all matters GURPS-ish, but PK is my official stand-in . . . so please give his rulings the same weight as my own! For the curious, PK was chosen on the strength of many years of playtesting experience and stats-checking, most notably his heroic efforts on the three crunchiest books in the Fourth Edition gamut: GURPS Martial Arts, GURPS Powers, and GURPS Thaumatology. He also demonstrated serious stats-crunching and writing chops in the GURPS Creatures of the Night* series and *GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 5: Allies. His masterpiece, though, was writing GURPS Psionic Powers* with so few rules hitches that I was relegated to commenting on style and usage. My feeling is that anybody capable of crunching that kind of crunch is up to the challenge! So let's give a warm welcome to PK! __________________ Sean "Dr. Kromm" Punch <kromm@sjgames.com> *GURPS* Line Editor, Steve Jackson Games My DreamWidth [Just *GURPS* News]

08-12-2009, 01:59 PM	#2
Turhan's Bey Company Aluminated Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: East of the moon, west of the stars, close to buses and shopping	Re: Assistant GURPS Line Editor Huzzah! Let us sacrifice a goat! Or something! __________________ I've been making pointlessly shiny things, and I've got some gaming-related stuff as well as 3d printing designs. Buy my Warehouse 23 stuff, dammit!

08-12-2009, 02:06 PM	#3
Humabout Join Date: Aug 2008	Re: Assistant GURPS Line Editor I've got the goat, anyone have a knife? Congrats, PK! __________________ Buy My Stuff! *Free Stuff:* Dungeon Action! Totem Spirits My Blog: Above the Flatline.

08-12-2009, 02:28 PM	#4
Crakkerjakk "Gimme 18 minutes . . ." Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Albuquerque, NM	Re: Assistant GURPS Line Editor Why sacrifice with a knife when you have a shotgun? Boom baby! Congo rats, RPK. I've always enjoyed your take on things, and you always seem to have a talent for viewing things from the ground up. You shall always be my favorite Pee Kitty. __________________ My bare bones web page Semper Fi

08-12-2009, 03:34 PM	#8
Dragondog Never Been Pretty Join Date: Jan 2005	Re: Assistant GURPS Line Editor Congrats PK!

08-12-2009, 03:39 PM	#10
Mark Skarr Forum Pervert (If you have to ask . . .) Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Somewhere high up.	Re: Assistant GURPS Line Editor It's cool, guys. I've sacrificed some books to him. I gave RPK my copy of GURPS Magic and one of my extra copies of Heavy Gear. It's cool. Trees have been sacrificed.