Hero Games Has A New Employee!

[Steve Long]

We're pleased to announce that after a long and diligent search, we've hired a new employee for the creative department here at Hero: Allen Thomas, author of the forthcoming Champions adventure Shades Of Black and one of the five authors of Champions Battlegrounds.

Allen's coming on board immediately, and we will be loading him down with work so that I can keep working on Fantasy Hero without interruption. ;)

Our thanks go out to everyone who applied! We had a great group of applicants to choose from, making it a tough decision. Hopefully we'll be in a position to do it all again before too long.

[AGLAR]

Congrats Allen!

[Killer Shrike]

Originally posted by AGLAR
Congrats Allen!
Congrats; may he be the Nth of Many!

[SuperPheemy]

Congratulations Allen. Be a HERO!

[Hermit]

Congratulations!

[allen]

Thanks everyone...

[HeroTina]

Welcome Allen :)

T.

[Dynamo]

>>JEALOUSY=OFF

Way to go, Allen. Having read the Shades of Black manuscript, I know you'll do great work.

>>JEALOUSY=ON

[Lord Liaden]

Good for you, Allen! We shall live our gaming-geek-makes-good fantasies through you. ;)

Does Allen Thomas have an official title (or maybe an unofficial one)?

[Blue]

Nice work!

[sniffle] I'll be okay. Really. ;)

[Darren Watts]

Originally posted by Lord Liaden


Does Allen Thomas have an official title (or maybe an unofficial one)?

We're still working on that. Assistant Editor doesn't describe the range of his possible duties or responsibilities, nor does Assistant Art Director (though he is sort of both of those.) I'm leaning towards Utility Infielder myself, but we've basically left it up to him to decide what goes on his business card. Any suggestions? dw

[GestaltBennie]

Congratulations Allen. It's nice to see Hero get an infusion of fresh meat, ur... new blood. :-)

In any event, I look forward to seeing more Hero goodness down the road from you.

Scott Bennie

[allen]

Originally posted by Darren Watts
I'm leaning towards Utility Infielder myself...

How about Sixth Man. (Sorry this Hoosier who's moving to Duke and Tar Heel country has basketball on the mind.)

[Lord Liaden]

Originally posted by Darren Watts
We're still working on that. Assistant Editor doesn't describe the range of his possible duties or responsibilities, nor does Assistant Art Director (though he is sort of both of those.) I'm leaning towards Utility Infielder myself, but we've basically left it up to him to decide what goes on his business card. Any suggestions? dw

Well, Allen is part of Hero Games's creative department, and he assists Steve with writing and editing and Andy with art and layout, so my first thought is that "Creative Assistant" would sum up his duties pretty well.

Next time you hire someone, he can be promoted to "Senior Creative Assistant." ;)

[Steve Long]

"Creative Assistant" doesn't sound quite right to me. I'm sort of leaning toward "Assistant Line Developer," since that sort of expands the scope of his work from just "editor."

Then again, he can call himself Fred if he wants, as long as he does good work in a timely manner. ;) ;) ;)

[Syberdwarf2]

Congratulations, FREd.....er, I mean Allen;)

[SCUBA Hero]

Originally posted by Steve Long
Then again, he can call himself Fred if he wants, as long as he does good work in a timely manner. ;) ;) ;)

First
Regional
Editing
Director

?

(ducks)

[Bartman]

Originally posted by Steve Long
Then again, he can call himself Fred if he wants, as long as he does good work in a timely manner. ;) ;) ;)

Not Fred again. Pretty soon Hero is going to resemble the Bruce skit from Monty Python.

Fred1: "Morning Fred."
Fred2: "Good Morning Fred."
Fred3: "Fred did you get the work done on FrEd yet?"
Fred2: "Oh hey Fred. No I still have to wrap up FreD first."
Fred3: "Well I guess FreD is the priority, just make sure you have FrEd done by Freday or you will be totally f®єđed-up.
Fred1: "By the way Freds. Did you hear that fReD shiped from the printers."
Freds2&3: "About time."...


And by the way congratulations Allen-Fred.

[JohnTaber]

How about some "Hero-ish"...

Sidekick?
Assistant Editor Lad?
Steve Short?

Ok...that last one is bad...but you get the idea. ;)

Congrats Allen....now get to work!!! :D

[Blue]

Originally posted by Steve Long
"Creative Assistant" doesn't sound quite right to me. I'm sort of leaning toward "Assistant Line Developer," since that sort of expands the scope of his work from just "editor."

Oh, you know how job titles go. Pick any two..

Column A......Column B
Projects.......Assistant
Creative.......Manager
Layout..........Editor
Line.............Consultant
Product........Designer
Multimedia....Slave

[BarryB]

Originally posted by Darren Watts
but we've basically left it up to him to decide what goes on his business card. Any suggestions? dw

Boy, you guys must be making lots of money to be able to afford *business cards*! :)

Mine sit in a box in the bookcase gathering dust.

[keithcurtis]

Originally posted by Steve Long
Then again, he can call himself Fred if he wants, as long as he does good work in a timely manner. ;) ;) ;)

Steve, haven't you realized the awesome power your words have? Use that power wisely. Now go back a re-read Spider-Man #1.

Fred "Fred" Fred

I mean,

Keith "Congratulations, Allen!" Curtis

[Lord Liaden]

Originally posted by Steve Long
"Creative Assistant" doesn't sound quite right to me. I'm sort of leaning toward "Assistant Line Developer," since that sort of expands the scope of his work from just "editor."

I actually wanted to suggest "Assistant Line Developer", but I thought that that would be too presumptuous of me. :o

Strictly speaking, though, you as Line Developer don't do any of the hands-on layout tasks that Andy does, so that title isn't completely accurate for Allen, either. :p

With everything that he's going to help you guys with, perhaps he should be called "Right Arm". :cool:

[allen]

kind of partial to Multimedia Consultant... LOL... man, does that sound like one of those high-paying, no one knows what he does jobs or what?

[HeroTina]

Originally posted by Blue
Oh, you know how job titles go. Pick any two..

Column A......Column B
Projects.......Assistant
Creative.......Manager
Layout..........Editor
Line.............Consultant
Product........Designer
Multimedia....Slave


I like any title with the word Slave in it

[Crimson-Hawk]

Yeah, Tina, but doesn't everyone in DOJ have "Goddess' Slave" as part of their title already? :D

BTW, Congratulations, Allen! You're sacrifice... er, I mean, efforts will help make this company grow to what it potentially already is... the best RPG publisher in the industry!

[Syberdwarf2]

Originally posted by Crimson-Hawk
Yeah, Tina, but doesn't everyone in DOJ have "Goddess' Slave" as part of their title already? :D

BTW, Congratulations, Allen! You're sacrifice... er, I mean, efforts will help make this company grow to what it potentially already is... the best RPG publisher in the industry!

Potentially?

[HeroTina]

Originally posted by Crimson-Hawk
Yeah, Tina, but doesn't everyone in DOJ have "Goddess' Slave" as part of their title already? :D

Yes and it's going to stay that way, you can never have too many slaves ;)


BTW, Congratulations, Allen! You're sacrifice... er, I mean, efforts will help make this company grow to what it potentially already is... the best RPG publisher in the industry!

congrats again Allen

[Blue]

Originally posted by HeroTina
I like any title with the word Slave in it

Coincidentally, "Multi-media slave" is a position you can get at 50% of the sites on the web. They even provide the chains.

[Crimson-Hawk]

Originally posted by Syberdwarf2
Potentially?

All a manner of perception and semantics, my friend. In my humble opinion, Hero Games is the greatest RPG publisher. One thing I will not do, though, is force feed that opinion down anyone else's throat.

And please don't be offended with the way I word things. Frankly, I'm tired of meaning one thing and then getting accused of and punished for saying another thing. I was complimenting Allen. Let's please leave it at that!

Thank you.

[slaughterj]

Originally posted by allen
How about Sixth Man. (Sorry this Hoosier who's moving to Duke and Tar Heel country has basketball on the mind.)

Whereabouts are you moving to, Greensboro near Steve, or closer to Duke (i.e., the Triangle area)?

[Derek Hiemforth]

Congratulations, Allen! :)

For a job title, allow me to obscurely suggest "EBB."

When I was in middle school, I played D&D with a guy whose older brothers had been playing since the very earliest stapled-pamphlet days. According to them (I can't verify, since I don't have the old books), the equipment lists in those days listed all the combat-worthy stuff first (weapons, armor, and so on), then the miscellaneous equipment like poles, torches, ropes, and such. Barding was the last item before the miscellaneous gear, so they used the shorthand "Everything Below Barding" (or "EBB") to stand for all the standard assorted gear a well-prepared dungeon-crawler would have. Rather than waste half a character sheet writing it all down, they'd just write "EBB" and let it go at that. It was such a useful time-saver that my D&D group adopted it too, even though that gear wasn't listed "below barding" any more.

Doing, as he is, a bit of everything for Hero Games, Allen seems to be our version of Everything Below Barding. :)

[Nato]

Congratulations Allen. Look forward to working with you. As long as you don't send any artwork back to me for chages we should get along famously. ;) Glad the crew finally got someone who can help with the huge workload.

[allen]

Thanks again everyone... I appreciate the warm welcome...

I'm moving to Greensboro, but it's all Duke country in my mind (I'm sure that someone... ummm... several someones... will set me straight soon enough).

I thought everything under barding was the horse... haha... nice story, Derek... would love to explain that EBB title to the next girl I meet.

[Derek Hiemforth]

Originally posted by allen
nice story, Derek... would love to explain that EBB title to the next girl I meet. You work for a game company now, and you think you're gonna meet girls? Oh, man... :D :D

Seriously, thanks for kind words about the story. I actually just suggested that title as an excuse to tell the story... :o

[Darren Watts]

Originally posted by Derek Hiemforth
You work for a game company now, and you think you're gonna meet girls? Oh, man... :D :D



What can I say? Chicks dig the long ball. dw

[Crimson-Hawk]

Originally posted by Darren Watts
What can I say? Chicks dig the long ball. dw

*hits own head on desk... repeatedly....*

:D

[Delthrien]

... That no one has offered up for consideration the title, "Executive Assistant Chief Goat Herder."

Merely an oversight, I'm certain, since it seems so obvious, But I thought I'd mention it anyway... :cool:

[Enforcer84]

Originally posted by allen
How about Sixth Man. (Sorry this Hoosier who's moving to Duke and Tar Heel country has basketball on the mind.)

Think the Pacers will come back?

[Bazza]

I'm partial to Hero Evangelist but we already have 1052 (last time I looked), the majority being unpaid :)

[allen]

Originally posted by Enforcer84
Think the Pacers will come back?

nope... wish i could say they will, but i just don't think so.

[Lord Liaden]

So, the title "Assistant Line Developer" appears to be official. You sound very important, Allen. :)

All hail A.T. the A.L.D.! :cool:

[Enforcer84]

Give Thanks!

[Derek Hiemforth]

How about a song to commemorate the momentous hiring?

A.T.'s The A.L.D. (sung to the tune of "Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead")

A.T.'s the A.L.D.!
He's part Steve!
He's part Andy!
A.T. is our new A.L.D.!"

:D

[allen]

Originally posted by Lord Liaden
So, the title "Assistant Line Developer" appears to be official. You sound very important, Allen. :)

All hail A.T. the A.L.D.! :cool:

Automated Typer And Lay-out Dude.

[Lord Liaden]

Originally posted by Derek Hiemforth
How about a song to commemorate the momentous hiring?

A.T.'s The A.L.D. (sung to the tune of "Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead")

A.T.'s the A.L.D.!
He's part Steve!
He's part Andy!
A.T. is our new A.L.D.!"

:D

"Toto, I don't think we're in Indiana any more."

[Al_Beddow]

Cngratulations..

(there something for you to edit)

[Syberdwarf2]

Originally posted by Lord Liaden
"Toto, I don't think we're in Indiana any more."

Are you a good witch? Or a bad witch?

[Blue]

Cut it out! You're giving me evil flying monkey flashbacks.

[SCUBA Hero]

Originally posted by allen
Automated Typer And Lay-out Dude.

Considering the volume of work that Hero Games is producing, you may want to change that to:

Autofire Typer And Lay-out Dude

;)