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Post by Sci-Fi on Jan 2, 2014 18:01:28 GMT
HAS anyone gotten Fear the Reaper yet and if so, how is it? I actually do have it now. It's not bad. The information is laid out well. It's not bad information. If anything..... it's.... kinda exactly what you expect it to be. If that makes sense? It's there, it's spelled out and you get exactly what you're expecting. In doing that you get no surprises or anything that makes you go "oh! COOL! I didn't think about that!" I won't say it's boring, but yeah, you get exactly what you expect to get. One thing that some people aren't going to like is the very much "Knights of the Round table" Feel to the Reapers. No matter what they were before, from out law killer bikers to acccountants, they're now all Reapers and that means heroes! There's even a code, not just an implyed one but one written out almost like the Code of Chivalry. One that all the reapers, hold sacracant. How they're all about LIVING and saving people etc etc etc. It comes off a little.. well Fairy Taleish. When you're reading stories about the Knights of the Round table you're able to suspend that disbeleif about people being that good and selfless. When it's in a post apoc setting were most of the planet has died and are walking dead, and you're talking about a motorcycle club becoming the knights of the round with their code and such, it's a bit more to swallow. Sure there are some selfless people out there in the world, but the Knights of the Round table stood out so much because that sort of thing is very rare. To find a group cross country and even out side the country of bikers that all have the souls of knights and are 100% selfless and willing to throw themselves into the hungry maws of zombies to save complete strangers and what not is a bit.. ehh.. The part where the bikers fought their way into Chicago, and saved a unit of Army troops. (( Yeah, the army troops were getting hosed till the bike club came in and rallyed them and saved the day and lead them out) Was a bit... ehh... too. It's not a bad book. It's a good read, but some elements of it do require a bit more willing suspension of disbelief. And it smells.... the book smells. Like, physically. The ink is pugent. I'm not sure if it's my copy and they just went heavy on the ink due to alot of the dark art or what.. but it smells to the point that when you're reading it/holding it in your hands you can smell the ink.. which is weird. |
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Post by yilbber on Jan 3, 2014 2:07:27 GMT
heavy ink smells are usually the result of them using recycled materials in the paper.
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Post by Sci-Fi on Jan 3, 2014 2:12:16 GMT
It's been a couple weeks and I opened the book last night, just to see if it'd dissipated before I wrote that post. The smell is still pretty strong.
I don't know about recycled paper, but the book has a pungent aura.
You can't smell it like 5 feet off or anything. It's not like 'Put it in a bag" stink, but if it's in your lap or your hands, open you can.
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Post by writersblock on Jan 14, 2014 12:40:36 GMT
Well, I can support Josh's experience. Stuff I did for Hardware Unlimited has appeared all over the Pally Books in the time since I wrote it...especially the couple years during and right after.
Some of it was LITERALLY word for word what I had written. Some of it was obviously modified from my work, and in some cases I can tell the person who did the modification did not understand as they screwed up stats and such.
Regardless of if they bought and own it, they still must by law give credit for the creator's work.
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Post by Sci-Fi on Jan 14, 2014 21:30:44 GMT
As I'm the curious type, what sort of stuff did you do for hardware that appeared elsewhere? By and large the stuff I see for hardware and HU seem to be written about. 1979.... You've written news stuff and I'm an early adopter. I neeeeeeeed the new stuff!
I'm curious as to new stuff and if I saw it as new when it appeared?
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Post by writersblock on May 2, 2014 23:48:33 GMT
All I know is that I am right there with Josh on KS using stuff in other books without credit. It happened HEAVILY with Hardware. In some cases, the barely changed a word. In others, it is obvious they didn't know what I meant when taking it out of context, and screwed up their modification.
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Post by Sci-Fi on May 3, 2014 19:41:47 GMT
Give examples? If you know they used stuff and barely changed a word, then you can point it out?
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Post by writersblock on May 15, 2014 20:59:00 GMT
Off the top of my head, whole sections of the HU GM's Guide. I no longer remember every single case.
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Post by ninjabunny on May 16, 2014 4:02:08 GMT
I created the Reapers. Although they were not so ... nice in the original version.  yours were far cooler. |
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Post by Sci-Fi on May 16, 2014 6:26:14 GMT
Off the top of my head, whole sections of the HU GM's Guide. I no longer remember every single case. Try. If there's entire sections of the GM's guide, give some page numbers, and point out the paragraphs that were yours. |
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Post by writersblock on May 19, 2014 23:32:20 GMT
Ten years ago, I could have been bothered. Today, I can't be bothered to pull out the book.
Honestly, I have gone over it so many times, I no longer have the energy. One time back on Cafe I bothered to go over it all book by book (page by page) and I just can't muster the energy anymore.
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Post by Sci-Fi on May 21, 2014 0:06:30 GMT
You understand you sound like the kid that claims he's dating the head cheer leader from a school out of state or something that can produce no proof?
I.E. Sounds totally made up when you say things like that. If it's whole sections of the GM's guide, take 5 minutes and claim your hard work.
If you can't, fess up you're just making it up.
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Post by writersblock on May 25, 2014 22:18:14 GMT
Well, honestly, it does not matter to me if you guys believe me or not.
If I really had to, I could prove it using the original manuscript that is still sealed in the envelope I mailed to myself when I mailed it to them as well.
To give specific examples, over ten years later, would involve me going through my copy side by side with the other book. Ten years ago, my friends and I could see it when stuff came out because Hardware was fresh in our minds.
I cannot be bothered to use my time that way now.
Honestly, I have not even looked at Hardware in probably 5 years or more. On top of that, I have made multiple revisions to it in the decade plus of years since sending it in to Pally. I can name general sections, but pages and such are not worth my time. You can look it up yourself from the general categories.
All I know is this: you can ask anyone who used to be at Cafe Risque about the ways Maryann used to come there and try to counter stuff I said only to get shut down when I would give her proof.
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Post by Sci-Fi on May 25, 2014 23:09:32 GMT
So you have no proof.
You 'can't be bothered' to open the book and flip through and find 'Entire sections' of your own work.
You claim it's been too long, and stuff has changed (Even though the book hasn't that supposedly has your stuff in it)
And you can't be bothered.
Yeah. You're lieing your fucking ass off man. I'm sorry, if Palladium stole your stuff and published it, you'd remember it. It wouldn't be hard. Especially if it was entire sections and stuff.
You've got some serious sour grapes they didn't publish what ever you did send in, and are here talking shit.
If they published ONE PARAGRAPH of your work, you'd know exactly where it was in the book and could point to it. Much less entire sections that you very vagely back away from now.
Prove it, or shut the hell up your lies man. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying Palladium is perfect, but your vague damaging claims of bullshit that you refuse to verify or specify, pisses me off.
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