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Thread Question: >Who's your favourite RPG game creator?
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Anonymous06/11/26(Thu)08:57:26
>>98190970(OP) Answering my own TQ: >Who's your favourite RPG game creator? Hard to choose. I would say
Gavin Norman. One can't stress enough how pivotal a well-presented and clear version of B/X was for the OSR scene as a whole. OSE-Advanced is great too. I also love Dolmenwood and Carcass Crawler and many of the Necrotic Gnome modules.
Dan Proctor: Labyrinth Lord and Mutant Future, albeit the last LL edition is disappointing.
Jaquay: Too many dungeons to mention, but let's say Caverns of Thracia, Dark Tower, and Borshak's Lair.
Michael Curtis: Stonehell, but lots of DCC stuff too, not often talked about.
Greg Gillespie: Dragonslayer and the Barromaze series.
Melan: Castle Xyntillan, Khosura.
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Anonymous06/11/26(Thu)11:28:29
>>98190970(OP) >Who's your favourite RPG game creator? Easily Alexander Macris, the greatest to do it since Gygax.
I don't really have a lot of favorite anything. I don't really track who writes what for the most part.But at least one stands out.
Kevin Crawford: The without number guy, damn he does a crazy amount of really solid work. His SWN faction stuff is usable for many games, I use it in my current savage worlds game.If he writes it, I'll give it a look. They guy really does great work.
>>98191502 >You can't be serious His name was Paul Jaquays, I'm questioning why he's the only one on the list denoted solely by his misspelled surname.
>>98191521 NTA but likely to avoid the trans argument. I said she and some folks are posting to start shit over it.
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Anonymous06/11/26(Thu)12:32:58
>>98191535 Yeah well maybe you should have avoided the trans argument by not going along with delulu then. I mean the guy isn't even alive to give a shit, why maintain the lie at this point.
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Anonymous06/11/26(Thu)12:39:27
>>98191554 Because I had no clue who they were and Google said she. You do you man, I tend to respect what folks call themselves. If I am not fucking them it's none of my business do eh, whatever.
I skipped Jaquays' given name because neither seemed right TO ME in the context: Like most people, I tend to use artists' stage names, so I say "David Bowie" instead of David Robert Jones and "Iggy Pop" instead of James Newell Osterberg Jr.. Jaquays went by the name "Jennel" for a few years before passing away, but by the name "Paul" when the modules I mentioned were published.
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Anonymous06/11/26(Thu)19:55:50
Looking for something to read. What's your favourite lesser known adventure or setting?