Posted by Sterling
on 1/31/2012, 9:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Jeff Dee’s "Deities & Demigods" Art at Kickstarter"
Dear Tann,
It's great to see you too! Life in the Circle of Power has been quite interesting these past few years. We have a mix of old and new characters making their way in The Realm these days. Tommy Tanaka and I are the old guard carrying on the legacy of The Circle of Power. Our newbies, Alyson and Kana, are having fun taking on Venger, getting into trouble and picking up NPCs as followers. All is well but Tommy and I still miss the old crew. As far as we are concerned, the door is always open to any and all who want to return--even for a short guest appearance. Hint! Hint!
Oh! And you don't have to worry about War Scribe. Your favorite Death-loving, man-chasing, scene-stealing Drowling doesn't have it in for any of the old crew anymore. Except for Zakiyah! There's something about her older sister that still continues to irk War Scribe and raise her ire.
As far as the creative yet caustic work environment of TSR and WotC goes, it's a crying shame they could not professionally carry themselves any better than they did. There used to be a time when people knew their jobs, did their jobs and took pride in their work. Sure, they may have felt like they were a cog in the machine at times, but they realized that they had a role to play and their contribution to the system was no more and no less important than that of their fellow worker. The success of the system relied upon everyone doing their job and performing their given task in a timely manner and to the best of their ability.
I often wonder how much of their angst was driven by jealousy and envy. Did the non-creative people desire to be creative? Did the creative people want to demonstrate business sense which they simply did not possess? We may never know but how much of that was simply not knowing your role or being content with your role in the first place?
A Point To Ponder
--Previous Message--
:
: Hey, Sterling, my friend! It’s great to see you back here at the
: old Town Square! How has the ol’ CoP been doing for the past
: years? I’d ask you to give my love to War Scribe, but I suspect
: that that would end in the amputation of one or more extremities
: and the necessity of learning to sing soprano parts.
:
: I have long heard rumors that working at TSR and WotC was an
: adventure of the most unpleasant kind. The place seems to have
: been riddled with highly creative and highly temperamental
: people with little sense of business constantly clashing with
: the more plodding and practical types with little sense of
: creative work, appalling idiocy and internecine malice being
: distressingly common on both sides. (The painful case of David
: Trampier comes to mind.) This seems a not uncommon phenomenon;
: I have heard of the same sort of thing happening at Disney and
: at Warner’s animation, in the cases of The Black Cauldron and
: Quest for Camelot , respectively.
:
: I am just glad that in this case, creativity seems to be winning
: out, inasmuch as if some boob had not destroyed Mr. Dee’s
: original art, he might not have been impelled to re-create it,
: and indeed add to it, in a rather improved style. Semper
: vinceant artes Minervæ — well, not Martem this time — more
: like Coalemum .
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