Re: [DL] Agency/Ghost Busters

[The Baron Samedi <baron11@netmcr.com>]

At 09:03 PM 6/15/00, you wrote:
> >
> > The adventure is cool.  However, I had one question...
> >
> > Why (out of curiosity) did you not get Rob Vaux to do it, since Doomtown
>is
> > a thing for him?
>
>Rob's actually been away from Doomtown for some time. Another AEG employee,
>Patrick Kapera (who's great, BTW), has taken over the reigns since--well,
>heck--for this entire millenium. Seriously, though, by the time I took over
>last year, Rob was handling other projects at AEG.

ah. ok.




>Besides while this adventure (and at least one of the others) features
>Gomorra at least briefly, the actual meat takes place elsewhere.

true.


>Lucien, I've known for a couple of years and has done a good deal of work
>for other companies. We had a chance to sit down and talk a couple of times
>at GenCon, and I was pretty sure he "got" the setting as well as anyone I
>could hope. Once I grabbed the reigns of power, he was the first guy I
>called (brand managers have to build a stable of reliable freelancers to
>call in emergencies <g>).

I have encountered his work before.  He has managed to keep impressing me, 
for the most part.


> >
> > One, one more question, I lie.  who is writing Dead Presidents and Rain o'
> > Terror?
>
>Rain o' Terror--another new-comer to Deadlands, Anthony Ragan. If you're
>into Warhammer FRPG, he wrote Marienburg--an _excellent_ supplement--among a
>number of other pieces. He's another writer I've had no small amount of
>contact with and who's work I respect.

never encountered him.  I will certainly be giving him a try.

>Dead Presidents--Christopher McGlothlin. He's had his eye on the target of
>that adventure for some time, and I can't think of anyone better suited to
>pull it off. :-)

heck, you two working together on it is a sort of RPG dream team to me.
course, you folks all impress me most of the time, but still...


> > I assume you are doing Collegium (since you mentioned it) Great
> > Weird North and Unholy Alliance or whatever it is.
> >
>
>Yes to all three. The Collegium is in development right now. I'll be turning
>it over to the production guys by the end of the month (hopefully at the
>same time I finish up Rain o' Terror), to get it to the printers ASAP. We're
>gunning for a GenCon release on it--which, BTW, puts us back on schedule.
>Woohoo!

Cool!


>John

Jason,
Da Baron
who was afraid the list was down...brr...glad we are over that