Bookmarks Pt 2 - Jeff Rients

Jeff Rients is or was a regular at the old RPG.net forum, and was one of the early adopters to join the rival and more open forum therpgsite.com.

Now this isnt a little rant about rpg.net, Ive done that in past blogs and on my other gaming rant blog, but rather why Jeff Reints' is a bookmark.

Putting it simply Jeff has some good ideas on the gaming industry, but mostly on what it takes to make a good game better. He has created a three-fold gaming system/style which seems to work for most things.

He finds 5 random links himself that he finds interesting and posts them all up. They all have a gaming theme.

Whilst it is fair to say he has gone off the boil of late, he still is worth me checking in on him at least once a week.

jrients (4.159.104.147)

19th Nov, 2007 03:19 (local)

Thanks for the kind words. I'm unfamiliar with the phrase "off the boil", but I think I follow. I'll readily admit my material has taken a bit of a left turn recently, but then so has the rest of my life.

Please take anything I say about the industry with a large grain of salt, especially when I try to make predictions. I've pretty much given up on gaming industry prognostication after a string of spectacular failures.

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lawbag (81.137.161.230)

21st Nov, 2007 13:47 (local)

I tried to be honest about my opinion.
Unlike the 'pundit though, you do occasionally talk about your family which does make you human.

Thanks for the comments.

As for "off the boil", imagine the finest cuisine put on the "back burner" of a cooker, and it starts to simmer as opposed to boil. So what I was saying was, that the quality is still there, but either not to my taste, or building up for a return to form.

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Ill Breeds Boredom

Been off ill over the last 2 days, which has kind of pissed me off because it looks as though my visit to Dragonmeet may well be cancelled, which is a shame as I had fully intended to get a copy of StarBlazer RPG, En Garde, jonnynexus' book, Games Night and a couple of Legend of the Five Rings books.

Im still holding out being able to make it, but I suspect if I do, Ill end up driving as opposed to leaving it up to public transport.

angusabranson (84.9.37.116)

30th Nov, 2007 09:58 (local)

To soften the blow a little if you can't make it - the Starblazer Adventures book isn't going to be ready for Dragonmeet. Everyone worked really hard to try and get it completed but time was against us.

Chris will be running some Starblazer games though and have prints and sample chapters available to look at.

But sadly no book :(

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