Blast from the Past
February 08, 2010
Last week, I was shocked to receive an email asking me the following:
I'm helping to update the RPG database at rpg.geekdo.com, and we were trying
to confirm that you are the same Chris Bateman who was a contributor to the
GamesMaster International magazine in England in the 1990's.
We're trying to see if your contributions to Discordia Inc. games should be
an independent entry or combined with "your" entry.
I never mention my work for GamesMaster International to anyone, but this was in fact my first ever paid job - as a freelance writer for this magazine. Discordia Inc. was my first games company - a non-profit organisation publishing tabletop RPGs and boardgames, although we never quite managed to afford to publish any boardgames!
The RPG database at Geekdo.com is an offshoot of BoardGameGeek, and has only been running for six months. If, like me, you have a sordid past in tabletop role-playing games, I encourage you to stop by and check that your entries in the database are all present and correct.
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