Well deserved, James. I just got the Shackled City hardcover and Flood Season may very well be my favorite chapter in a campaign filled with brilliant work. I hope you'll still have time to write the occasional adventure.
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Hoorah! Congrats to James! Definitely well deserved. And personally, I think you should go with zombie kenku and dinosaurs. Of course, that's just me.....Yes, fiendish zombie kenku pirates and dinosaurs all around I think. Hmmm, "Dungeons & Dinosaurs?"
I'll add my agreement to reinforce demand for more adventures featuring kenku... what about pirate kenku battling against ninja aaracockra battling against samurai raptorans? Maybe something about a cult of Pazuzu too?
Congrats JJ.
Mr Jacobs,
Congratulations. I think I can safely say that in my brief tenure as a gamer (That's in abstract terms mind you, the rest of my gaming group have each been playing DnD for as long as I've been alive), you name is one of three that I recognize immediately to mean quality when I see it in the byline of an article in Dragon or Dungeon. I thinkt he fact that you are being given the reins of the magazine is a sign that my money will continue to be well spent at Paizo.
At last count, I think there were 22 of us at Paizo, but Dungeon itself is run by 3.5 people - Jacobs (Editor in Chief), Jeremy Walker (Assistant Editor), and myself (Assistant Editor). The 0.5 is Erik, since as publisher he's still got plenty of sway with the magazine, even if he's not doing the day-to-day editing. I don't think there'll be a new Managing Editor any time soon - with a staff this small, titles are kind of funny - Dragon has 2 Associate Editors but no Assistant Editors, and Dungeon has the opposite. We all do a little bit of everything, so at the end of the day, what matters is that the magazine gets out.
I am stunned that only 3 1/2 people work on Dungeon. That seems like a ludicriously low number to put out a mag of such high quality.
Anyway sorry to see Erik leave but excited to see James' promotion!
Does this mean that there won't be a sequel to Red Hand of Doom?
Congratulations to Mr. Jacobs!
As the new captain at the helm, this bit is just for you. So Erik and everyone else don't read this part.
{BEGIN PRIVATE CONVERSATION}It's exciting news and about time that put the old man out to pasture...sacred cows and all that. I see nothing but greatness for the future. And in the meantime I'll start sending in my very best proposals instead of holding them back. ;-) And I suppose now we can finally put that annoying Pett habit to rest.{END PRIVATE CONVERSATION}
And for Mr. Mona, a private communique as well.
{BEGIN PRIVATE CONVERSATION} Congratulations to you as well. A well-deserved promotion as the publisher and letting you turn the day-to-day reins over to another. You've brought the ship to where it is and left it in capable hands, though you'll definitely have to keep the whippersnapper in line with all his crazy dinosaur ideas (never had much truck with them myself). Congratulations again, and I know you'll keep the company well in hand as the publisher. And I think we can all agree that less Pett is more.{END PRIVATE CONVERSATION}
Well, that having been done I have to say that I'm glad no one would dare violate the sanctity of a bracketed-off section of the post addressed to someone else by reading it. No embarrassing awkwardness and whatnot that way.
I hate internet acronyms, but this literally had me laughing out loud!
Congrats, James. It's a well-deserved promotion.
I expect to see kenku bards ... by the dozens.
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In publishing, there's the unwritten rule that the EIC has to wear a tie ... 24/7 ... and it has to be made of silk ... and the raise goes to pay for it ...
I am stunned that only 3 1/2 people work on Dungeon. That seems like a ludicriously low number to put out a mag of such high quality.
Well, there's also our three-person art staff for the two magazines (Sean Glenn, Drew Pocza, and Sarah Robinson), but... psh. Pictures. Who needs 'em?
-James
{CONFIDENTIAL TO GREG V} Sorry, my friend, but what can I say? With blossoming labor prices, it's cheaper to go overseas for adventures, and by violating several human rights laws, Mr. Pett's Jollytime Text Mill is able to shave pennies off of every issue of Dungeon. Pennies!
It's also a little known fact that the Styes article was originally just an overview of one of his labor camps, which we pulled from the brochures and edited to suit our needs.{END CONFIDENTIAL}
You forgot one important money-saving detail from using Pett's Mill...the cheaper paper that he sends over for your printers. But do you know what's in that low grade, grainy stuff he's been pushing on you?
It's PEOPLE!!!
Great, now you'll sound like Charlton Heston forever in my mind!
Congratulations to Mr. Jacobs!
As the new captain at the helm, this bit is just for you. So Erik and everyone else don't read this part.
{BEGIN PRIVATE CONVERSATION}It's exciting news and about time that put the old man out to pasture...sacred cows and all that. I see nothing but greatness for the future. And in the meantime I'll start sending in my very best proposals instead of holding them back. ;-) And I suppose now we can finally put that annoying Pett habit to rest.{END PRIVATE CONVERSATION}
And for Mr. Mona, a private communique as well.
{BEGIN PRIVATE CONVERSATION} Congratulations to you as well. A well-deserved promotion as the publisher and letting you turn the day-to-day reins over to another. You've brought the ship to where it is and left it in capable hands, though you'll definitely have to keep the whippersnapper in line with all his crazy dinosaur ideas (never had much truck with them myself). Congratulations again, and I know you'll keep the company well in hand as the publisher. And I think we can all agree that less Pett is more.{END PRIVATE CONVERSATION}
Well, that having been done I have to say that I'm glad no one would dare violate the sanctity of a bracketed-off section of the post addressed to someone else by reading it. No embarrassing awkwardness and whatnot that way.
Creeper
I hate internet acronyms, but this literally had me laughing out loud!Congratulations to Mr. Jacobs!
As the new captain at the helm, this bit is just for you. So Erik and everyone else don't read this part.
{BEGIN PRIVATE CONVERSATION}It's exciting news and about time that put the old man out to pasture...sacred cows and all that. I see nothing but greatness for the future. And in the meantime I'll start sending in my very best proposals instead of holding them back. ;-) And I suppose now we can finally put that annoying Pett habit to rest.{END PRIVATE CONVERSATION}
And for Mr. Mona, a private communique as well.
{BEGIN PRIVATE CONVERSATION} Congratulations to you as well. A well-deserved promotion as the publisher and letting you turn the day-to-day reins over to another. You've brought the ship to where it is and left it in capable hands, though you'll definitely have to keep the whippersnapper in line with all his crazy dinosaur ideas (never had much truck with them myself). Congratulations again, and I know you'll keep the company well in hand as the publisher. And I think we can all agree that less Pett is more.{END PRIVATE CONVERSATION}
Well, that having been done I have to say that I'm glad no one would dare violate the sanctity of a bracketed-off section of the post addressed to someone else by reading it. No embarrassing awkwardness and whatnot that way.
This is quite clearly some Portuguese person afraid of the might that is England and the fearful tanning our boys are about to dish out...or something.
I am stunned that only 3 1/2 people work on Dungeon. That seems like a ludicriously low number to put out a mag of such high quality.Well, there's also our three-person art staff for the two magazines (Sean Glenn, Drew Pocza, and Sarah Robinson), but... psh. Pictures. Who needs 'em?
-James
{CONFIDENTIAL TO GREG V} Sorry, my friend, but what can I say? With blossoming labor prices, it's cheaper to go overseas for adventures, and by violating several human rights laws, Mr. Pett's Jollytime Text Mill is able to shave pennies off of every issue of Dungeon. Pennies!
It's also a little known fact that the Styes article was originally just an overview of one of his labor camps, which we pulled from the brochures and edited to suit our needs.{END CONFIDENTIAL}
Well this is just outrageous...I just knew that James was the sort of untrustworthy cad whose eyebrows met in the middle...
And all this is quite clearly World Cup Jealousy Syndrome™...hmmf
{CONFIDENTIAL TO RICH PETT}
Good work on faking the indignation, old chap! Now that meddling Greg character will never suspect our secret plan. Soon all Dungeon readers will be playing exclusively English adventures, drinking tea, and spelling things "centre," "colour," and "armour" - it'll be complete chaos! Mwahahahahaha!
{END CONFIDENTIAL}
I trust all you splendid fellows will be cheering on our boys as they regale you with another Proustian display of existentialist football in a few hours time...
Or something...
Great, now you'll sound like Charlton Heston forever in my mind!Cool!!
I'm the Omega Man, Baby!
Doesn't Omega mean last? ;)
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Congratulations, James!
And Congratulations, Erik! (even if it's a bit late)
I take it that Dungeon will continue to be the great source of adventures and DM advice in your capable hands.
And maybe Erik will have some more time for his favourite projects (although taking up publisher position instead of being editor of Dungon doesn't sound like a lot of repose). ;-)
Keep up the good work!
Günther
Sorry I'm so late posting this...
:runs after bandwagon:
But congratulations, James. It's great to hear that you're as happy as we are with the promotion and we wish you all the best.
Adding my own belated kudos to James, who I know would blend right in at my gaming table.
I just might re-subscribe (no fault of Erik's).
M
Seriously, though... thanks for the kind words, everyone! And I promise to try to resist the terrible urge to put dinosaurs and kenkus in every single issue.
As long as
A) We see fewer adventures involving cold climes
AND
B) We don't see any adventures involving going out to sea or being underwater outside of Savage Tide,
You'll be fine. I mean, Kenku rock. And I'm sure if I had to digest dinosaurs in my adventures more than once a year, I'd come to like them too. Always thought dinosaurs were a little silly, though...
Still, gratz!
I trust all you splendid fellows will be cheering on our boys as they regale you with another Proustian display of existentialist football in a few hours time...
Or something...
Yeah, I cheered them on....always enjoy the England vs. Germany showdowns and I sure wanted a England vs. Germany final to the World Cup, but Portugal had other plans. Maybe next time. Hopefully Germany can pull it off vs. Italy here in an hour or so. I'll be glued to the TV with my Warsteiner and my wife (not necessarily in that order, LOL)