Another note on this Style Guide. My friends who work at Wizards tell me that back in these days there was a third party printer, a sort of Kinko’s, in the same building with Wizards. That was how they produced binders like this and explains the lack of a stock number or ISBN. pic.twitter.com/6NEbfVTyCD
— Alex Kammer (@GHC_and_Tacos) August 31, 2021
Yes, in the west half of the same building. If you walked out a door in the wall of the Dungeon Hobby Shop on TSR’s 2nd floor, you were on an internal fire escape-like landing that led down open metal stairs to the floor of the warehouse. Which was huge; forklifts whizzing about. One down note: as TSR was closing down, after GenCon, when things were being packed for the move to Renton, I went down that staircase and found myself crotch-deep in a HUGE open bin of discarded copies of the Worlds of TSR art book, all higglety-piggelty. (I fear: landfill.)
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 31, 2021
Because of the interest in my copy of the D&D 3.0 Style Guide I posted a couple of days ago, I am following with the first 4 pages of the binder. Here you go @lindevi If you would like to see any more, just let me know. pic.twitter.com/HsZfW0OnaU
— Alex Kammer (@GHC_and_Tacos) August 31, 2021
It’s a little funny to me that you’re posting something for the curiosity of it, and when I look at it, I just think, “work.” (Also, that is all so much brand-manager-ese. Actual designers paid little attention to that stuff, particularly the do’s and don’ts) Yeah. I get it. I do enough design/free lancing for others to get how these sorts of documents tend to steal joy rather than inculcate the creative process. I am quite frankly surprised at the interest in it. I almost did not post it as part of my tour in the first place.
— Alex Kammer (@GHC_and_Tacos) September 1, 2021
I’ve broken like six of those Don’t guidelines in the book I’m writing with @shellymoo but the very first thing I wrote was “DND is a game about dressing up in costumes!” Everything I thought I knew it was wrong!
— shelly mazzanoble (@shellymoo) August 31, 2021
