Comments on: Hite on the Future of RPGs https://www.forbeck.com/2006/05/31/hite-on-the-future-of-rpgs/ Award-winning & New York Times-bestselling author and game designer Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:07:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2006/05/31/hite-on-the-future-of-rpgs/#comment-1134 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:07:16 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=598#comment-1134 Tim is a forgiving employer—as I well know. 🙂

]]> By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2006/05/31/hite-on-the-future-of-rpgs/#comment-49729 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:07:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=598#comment-49729 Tim is a forgiving employer—as I well know. 🙂

]]> By: Jason L Blair https://www.forbeck.com/2006/05/31/hite-on-the-future-of-rpgs/#comment-1130 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:12:45 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=598#comment-1130 All the slurring and blacking out must have made me seem eloquent and attentive.

]]> By: Jason L Blair https://www.forbeck.com/2006/05/31/hite-on-the-future-of-rpgs/#comment-49728 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:12:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=598#comment-49728 All the slurring and blacking out must have made me seem eloquent and attentive.

]]> By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2006/05/31/hite-on-the-future-of-rpgs/#comment-1126 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:18:24 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=598#comment-1126 I like your first explanation better. Wasn’t that the year Human Head hired you? 🙂

]]> By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2006/05/31/hite-on-the-future-of-rpgs/#comment-49727 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:18:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=598#comment-49727 I like your first explanation better. Wasn’t that the year Human Head hired you? 🙂

]]> By: Jason L Blair https://www.forbeck.com/2006/05/31/hite-on-the-future-of-rpgs/#comment-1125 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:05:35 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=598#comment-1125 Must have been Gen Con 2005 (or Origins 2004). I didn’t make Origins last year. Or you were far more gone than you remember.

I was still drunk ONE YEAR LATER.

Actually, no, it was Origins 2004.

]]> By: Jason L Blair https://www.forbeck.com/2006/05/31/hite-on-the-future-of-rpgs/#comment-49726 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:05:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=598#comment-49726 Must have been Gen Con 2005 (or Origins 2004). I didn’t make Origins last year. Or you were far more gone than you remember.

I was still drunk ONE YEAR LATER.

Actually, no, it was Origins 2004.

]]> By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2006/05/31/hite-on-the-future-of-rpgs/#comment-1121 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:36:50 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=598#comment-1121 Ha! It’s true that Ray is a real sweetheart. He’s also a licensed masseuse, and you can sometimes find him plying that craft at conventions to this day.

During the development of the Champions computer game, Ray vowed not to cut his hair until the game was complete. By the time someone finally put a stake in the heart of the project, he had a beard any dwarf would have envied.

I remember playing with early versions of the game. I would have loved to have seen it reach the market. Still, City of Heroes fills that void well.

As for Steve Long, he’s an old buddy of mine. He’s a brilliant designer, although he likes his systems a bit more rigorous than I do. Perhaps that comes from his training as an attorney, a job he gave up to pursue game design full time.

When Steve organized a group to pull the Hero System from the ashes of the Cybergame debacle, I was thrilled. For him, it was a dream come true, and I couldn’t suggest anyone else who would have been a better custodian for it or shown it more love—except for the original Hero team itself, and all those guys (including Bruce Harlick) seemed ready to move on to other things by then.

]]> By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2006/05/31/hite-on-the-future-of-rpgs/#comment-49725 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:36:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=598#comment-49725 Ha! It’s true that Ray is a real sweetheart. He’s also a licensed masseuse, and you can sometimes find him plying that craft at conventions to this day.

During the development of the Champions computer game, Ray vowed not to cut his hair until the game was complete. By the time someone finally put a stake in the heart of the project, he had a beard any dwarf would have envied.

I remember playing with early versions of the game. I would have loved to have seen it reach the market. Still, City of Heroes fills that void well.

As for Steve Long, he’s an old buddy of mine. He’s a brilliant designer, although he likes his systems a bit more rigorous than I do. Perhaps that comes from his training as an attorney, a job he gave up to pursue game design full time.

When Steve organized a group to pull the Hero System from the ashes of the Cybergame debacle, I was thrilled. For him, it was a dream come true, and I couldn’t suggest anyone else who would have been a better custodian for it or shown it more love—except for the original Hero team itself, and all those guys (including Bruce Harlick) seemed ready to move on to other things by then.

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