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Friday, November 19, 2010
Open Friday: Gaming "Treasures"
So, what are your greatest gaming "treasures?"
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Creeks and Crawdads. What a whacked-out game and hilarious to read. Bought it off the shelf at our FLGS in Ithaca back in 1983/1984 or so. Never seen it since.
I also managed to pick up the Dragon archive before the prices shot through the roof. Got some good, usable stuff out of that, and printed up my own "best of" folders. Had a great time recently running the players through The Fell Pass.* LBBs plus all supplements. My first exposure to this part of the game was the Greyhawk supplement which I saw at a friend's house in Jr. High during an all-night weekend gaming session. Some of the ideas in it were just so... weird. But cool. I especially liked the "monster combos" at the back of the book. Seeing this book made me want to buy all of the other ones to check them out. Took me about 23 years to eventually get them all.
Never actually played them as written, but I used a ton of ideas, especially from the supplements, in my 1E and 3E/3.5E games.
* Empire of the Petal Throne boxed set. Mine is in bad shape, having been purchased for little money off of Ebay. I really just wanted to read it and hopefully incorporate some of the background material into my own homebrew campaign. I never intended to play it "as is" but mainly wanted it for idea fodder.
* Metamorphosis Alpha The "original" booklet version. This was pure adult nostalgia and curiosity at work. I actually bought this after I started reading your blog a few months ago. I remember an article in my Best of Dragon, Vol. 1 called something like "What Color Is Your Mutant" which was basically random tables used to figure out the physical appearance of humanoids in MA. The article had some very vague, but very intriguing comments about sort of "barbarian tribes on a lost spaceship." I read that article about 27 years ago and have been intrigued ever since, but I never saw the game anywhere and I was loathe to pay so much for it from Ebay. But, alas, I finally succumbed to my curiosity. Again, I never purchased this with the intent to play so much as just to read it and hopefully grab some ideas to incorporate into another game some day. It helps that I have also recently started running a group through S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, which has a similar tone to MA.Let's see. Various AD&D hardcovers - but they are all re-acquisitions. Probably my oldest and most treasured RPGs would be my 1e CoC boxed set, 1e Star Trek the RPG, The Traveller Book hardcover, 1st printing Mercenaries, Spies & Private Eyes (a real lost treasure of the rpg world) and 2e Runequest hardcover.
I have a 1987 reprint of EPT but I bid on a good condition complete EPT box set at a local con auction a few years ago. The bidding got up to $150. It was down to myself and one other bidder when I noticed I was bidding against Peter Adkinson, then head of WotC....My OD&D LBB boxed set (still have the dice that came in it - or did I just buy those at the same time?) plus all the supplements. My TSR EPT boxed set, sadly damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. My Unearthed Arcana, bought at GenCon 1985 and signed by Gary. My WFRP 1E from 1986 and my 2E Call of Cthulhu boxed set. I'm sure there are others, but those are what jump to mind at the moment.
ReplyDeleteWell I'm a compulsive* game collector, but I'm also saddened that most of the games I collect will remain unplayed. There is usually something to reccomend any game, or at least something to spark an idea, but sadly there are not enough hours in the day. Not that I keep any games under glass, which will have collectors curse me. But then I'm not going to get rid of them in my lifetime so I'm not really worried about the monetary value of them.
The most valuable stuff (to me) is the stuff that's been hardest to get, which is usually the non-English language games, such as the Croc edition of In Nomine Satanis and Magna Veritas, and the Multisim editions of Nephilim (all of them) and Agone. I've even got the Aventyrsspel edition of Kult (and several supplements that were never translated into English by Metropolis) and I don't read Swedish. But at least the French and Spanish stuff is being slowly translated by me (unfortunately it cannot be redistributed).
A lot of the garage press games that appeared in the early 80s are also interesting (they've been replaced by PDFs these days). Stuff such as the Phoenix Games edition of Bushido and several early UK SF games that came out about the same time as Traveller. Speaking of which, the early gaming APAzines were really enjoyable (stuff like Trollcrusher and Underworld Oracle).
But there is no way I can say that any game is more valued by me than any other. I want to play all the good stuff. Although I do have a lot of stuff from the early years of the hobby. [I recently alienated one of my original edition D&D sets to get it signed by the cast of Tripod vs the Dragon because I thought their show captured the essence of the game so well. Relax, it was only the 6th printing...]
[* Although I do prefer new stuff to getting a new edition of old stuff, especially if I'm not actively playing it. So I'm not quite as compulsive as I was in my youth. And now I prefer PDF, because of the ease of storage, utility, lower cost, and lack of freight costs (which effectively double the cost of acquiring games for me).]Thee Moldovy Basic/Expet box sets with the Otus covers, 1st edition Gamma World Box set, all the Hargrave written Arduin Grimores including a very rare 1st ed AG 8 which has a write up of the Cult of the Crimson Kiss that's was omitted from later editions. The D&D Cyclopedia. First dozen Microgames like Ogre and Rivits. But it's my personal gaming material that I created over the years that means the most.
ReplyDelete- AnonymousNovember 19, 2010 at 2:54 AM
First edition Dungeon Master's Guide (with the City of Brass cover) and first edition Nobilis (the "little pink book").
ReplyDelete My 1st edition booklet version of Metamorphosis Alpha is the oldest thing I own, but my absolute favorite thing I have which is near and dear to my heart is my very well worn 1st edition of the original version of Toon that I got signed by Warren Spector at a convention. My friends and I played the heck out of that game back during middle school. Those were some good times.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason I seem to have more copies of the Moldvay Basic box set than one person really needs to own. I'm not sure how that happened, but I love every one of them.
More recently, I finally got my hands on a sixth printing of Palace of the Vampire Queen. To be honest, I would've been happy with scans or photocopies of it. I just wanted to read the thing after having played it at last TotalCon, but apparently PDFs of that module simply don't exist, legally available or otherwise. I ended up watching eBay for months and finally got a copy that wasn't too steep, but still more money than I've ever paid for any other gaming book.
While I think there is something special about owning original copies rather than simply printed out scans, I still intend to use every item I acquire.I have four (five, really): my original Holmes boxed set (which I got when I was about 8; fair condition); my Melee & Wizard boxed games by Metagaming; my original Deities & Demigods (with Cthulhu & Melnibonean mythos), and; my GURPS Alternate Earths (3e) for which I was a playtester.
TFotHI'm more of a completist than a collector, and all of my games are theoretically there to play, I just haven't gotten around to playing all of them yet. Anyway, my particular notable items:
Complete set of D&D Hollow World setting books
BECM+Wrath of the Immortals boxed sets
20th Anniversary Call of Cthulhu (fake green leather with red Elder Sign on cover)
25th Anniversary GURPS Traveller signed and numbered hardback (especially since I got it for 10 bucks at a convention in pristine condition)
MERP 2E hardback, and all the books I've managed to afford for that game
Nearly complete collection of 2E D6 Star Wars, including all 15 Adventure Journals
Complete runs of In Nomine(SJG), Transhuman Space, GURPS WWII, Conspiracy X 1.0, Unknown Armies
Ogre Battlesuit (little old black plastic box) autographed by Evil Stevie
and then all my Tunnels & Trolls stuff.Nothing particularly rare, but I treasure: AD&D 1e books (especially the Monster Manual which I bought at age 10), For Faerie Queen & Country (odd Amazing Engine Victorian setting which I find very inspiring), all four volumes of the AD&D 2e Wizard's Spell Compendium (collected gradually from eBay).
ReplyDeleteSeveral WFRP 1e pieces.
Of all the games I've parted with over the years, I've always held on to these pieces. The rulebook (softcover, though I'm pretty sure I owned a hardcover version at one time), Warhammer City (Middenheim), and parts I and II of The Enemy Within campaign: The Enemy Within and Shadows over Bogenhafen,- AnonymousNovember 19, 2010 at 8:26 AM
Not really a collector, but I would have to say my D&D Rules Cyclopedia, which I received as a Christmas gift in 1991. And it's still in VG condition (& apparently is fetching insane prices right now...). I cherish it above all other books, having weathered my decade-long hiatus from the hobby (& subsequent selling of all of my other game material).
After my RC, I would have to say my AD&D1E set (PH, DMG, MM, FF - all original covers [re-purchased]), my AD&D2E set (PH, DMG, MC - all original covers [re-purchased]), as well as my collection of D&D Endless Quest books (1-36 - which I've kept since I was a wee one).
I don't have anywhere near the D&D collection as most, but each piece is treasured. -1st printing of Deities & Demigods
-Games Workshop printing of CoC rules (hardback)
-Silver Anniversary box set of D&D w/ L3: Deep Dwarven Delve
-World of Greyhawk 1980 folio
-module U1-U3
The last for are "special" because I found them quite by accident.
I was in the Navy MANY moons ago, and was stationed in Tenn. for training (yes, there was a naval air station there). Anyway, we had 4-man rooms, just like a college dorm. From what I remember, we had a kinda desk/study area for each guy. One of which was not being used by anyone. Don't remember why, but I decided to use it for myself. Checked all of the drawers, and lo and behold, there they were. I knew the other guys weren't gamers. I asked about it and they were cool with it.- AnonymousNovember 19, 2010 at 8:52 AM
*1st ed. AD&D PHB, although technically it's my brother's collection now since we split up our gaming stuff on the understanding that I kept the minis and he kept the books!
*Armies of Antiquity for Warhammer Ancients Battles, mainly because it is signed by the author and I am mentioned in the "thank yous" on the first page.
*All my Grenadier AD&D minis, and Heritage Dungeon Dwellers, along with the rules and maps from the Caverns of Doom and Crypt of the Sorcerer games Heritage put out in 1981 or so.
*World of Greyhawk folio, although that too is my brother's now (I do get visitation rights on my old books, thank goodness!)
*Best of Dragon, vol. I. It opened my eyes to Original D&D and pre-AD&D gaming. Although I started AD&D before DDG and FF were out, I never got to a real gaming store until much later and so I had no idea what was in the LBBs or how gonzo OD&D was.
These are all mostly just valuable to me, but not in "collector's" condition any more. Altohugh I only use the minis regularly, they all have a special place in my collection of stuff. A hardbound copy of Castle Falkenstein. I treat it like a treasure because I'm afraid the thing will fall apart if I'm too careless with it (like my previous soft-cover version).
Also: My original AD&D hard-backs (though they are really durable), Warhammer FRP 1e (love that book), first edition Vampire the Masquerade, and my newly reacquired B/X boxed sets.My treasures are:
1) The Dieties and Demigods with Elric and Cthulu (all the more treasurey since I bought it completely by accident)
2) A complete collection of ALL the Star Wars D6 RPG products, including all of the Adventure Journals.
3) A complete collection of all the Star Frontiers rulebooks (boxed sets) and adventure modules.
4) My original B/X Rulebooks from 1979-1980. Nothing special about them except for the fact that they're the things that got me into the wonderful world of gaming- and they still have notes and even 'colorings' I did in them. It...seemed like a good idea at the time.Well, my original white box and supplements (including Chainmail), of course. My Greyhawk is signed by Gary Gygax, which is nice. (Also my AD&D DM Screen is signed by Erol Otis.)
My original edition of Metamorposis Alpha is a favorite, and I also have the Heritage Star Trek RPG, which never got played for obvious reasons, but which made it with me through all my moves.
Also "Killer" by Steve Jackson (original cover), and a copy of the IFGS Live-Action Roleplaying rules from the late 1980's, back when "Dream Park" had just come out and someone actually started up an IFGS. I still also have "Beyond the Sacred Table" by the folks who did Arduin Grimoire.Original Metamorphosis Alpha and Gamma World. The Rules Cyclopedia I bought for $1. All of my 1E D&D books.
But I am a collector of role-playing games. Most of which have never been played nor will they ever be played. I have them because I like knowing I have them. I do use them as reference. I have a lot of them. Some 60+ feet of shelving dedicated to RPG boxed sets and books. It beats collecting spoons.This one's easy, Moldvay and Mentzer basic sets (Otus and Elmore covers) I've had since I was a kid and signed by none other than Arneson himself a little less than a year before he passed.
Around last Christmas I walked into my FLGS and picked up a sealed Moldvay box set for $30. Oh, and ended up getting it at 30% off that. Can't bring myself to tear it open.
I also bought a banged up Star Frontiers box set off ebay that I have a great deal of fondness for.
But the biggie, is the Dungeon! board game I bought off ebay nearly 4 years ago, which started this whole mess in the first place--and yes, we've played many hilarious games with it since then!- AnonymousNovember 19, 2010 at 11:54 AM
Maybe it is too sentimental, but when I was given my parents collection of 1e books and modules, I also ended up with my father's hand-written modules that he DM'ed for their group. It is fun to go back through and think about the PC's who ran through them back when I was young enough to be playing with toys at their feet during the game. I've also learned more about adventure design from reading them, as he was thorough in his notes, mentioning the reason why certain traps appeared, and what the monster's motivations were. I also ended up with weird things like character sheet print outs made on early Apple Macs and xeroxed with that purple ink they used back in the 80's.
They aren't "official" books, but that's the part of my collection I'm most proud of. - AnonymousNovember 19, 2010 at 12:05 PM
The only RPG stuff that I collect is M. A. R. Barker's Tekumel. My most treasured piece in it is my 1975 Empire of the Petal Throne boxed set which I bought about 15 years ago for about $70.
ReplyDelete Hmm, treasures, my treasures are definitely not necessarily in collectors condition, however, I definitely have some items I treasure:
OD&D boxed set and supplements (box in not so good shape, books in very good shape)
RuneQuest 1st edition (taped spine, now signed by Greg Stafford). 1st edition Cults of Prax.
First Fantasy Campaign (decent shape, now signed by Dave Arneson)
Traveller 1977 boxed set plus supplements.
If I was forced to reduce my gaming stuff down to fit in a single box or some such, I would take all of this stuff (plus perhaps a few other bits), plus my collection of Burning Wheel books and some dice.
Oh, I might also add 1st ed. Chivalry and Sorcery to my treasures (spine virtually destroyed). This one is questionable, I'm not sure I'd ever play it again, but this was like the 2nd or 3rd RPG book that came into my life (my best friend got it for Christmas, I used it and beat the hell out of the spine, and eventually bought it from him).
Oh, I might also toss in the composition book with my hand copied set of spell descriptions for Cold Iron, plus a few reference charts for the game. Though again, not something I'm ever likely to play again, but this game dominated 6 years of gaming in college.
This list doesn't cover the bulk of my gaming life (AD&D, Fantasy Hero, and Arcana Unearthed/Evolved are missing). I guess if I had a bit more space I might add Arcana Evolved, D&D 3.5 DMG, and D&D 3.5 MM. But more likely I'd add more RQ supplements to fill out the box.
Frank- AnonymousNovember 19, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Two things:
The Corgi Books edition of Dragon Warriors, for all its quirky, yet realistic/believable, European, down-to-earth handling of fantasy and myth.
The small, ~20 page primer for Lüdinn - City of Myth and Illusion.
The latter needs probably some explanation because I never met even one person who remembers this thing:
Lüdinn was an AD&D2 campaign that was played at conventions (I saw it at Gen Con in the nineties). It was built (literally) around a huge model of the city that lent its name to the campaign. Narrow streets, bridges, city walls, towers and a cathedral--most of which had detachable roofs and floors--, a dwarven undercity with rail tracks, lighting and flowing water... it was amazing.
At Gen Con the makers sold a 20 page (or so) pamphlet that had campaign info, maps, and character generation stuff that seemed to be modeled after the RPGA Living City/Raven's Bluff character primer of that time.
That pamphlet was ... strange. It was a weird mixture of early DTP formatting, hand-written portions, and crude-but-impressive illustrations (and badly-scanned photos). That booklet was made of pure and unadultered gonzo-ness - the Endrow (sic!) world map was a crude sketch showing a view "from orbit", complete with a spikey drow(?) spaceship.
I never experienced the gonzo-ness of Arduin Grimoire; I have seen the brown books at game stores in the eighties but for some reason that excapes me I never even considered looking at them. But through this Lüdinn stuff I at least can imagine what must have been the draw of Arduin.
This xeroxed booklet is definitely one of the most cherished treasures of my RPG collection--despite the fact that I personally abhor settings that mix fantasy and SF in such a way, this booket is a testament to the sheer fun the Lüdinn people had with their campaign. Well, I'm sure that I fall into your collector category, James, but here are my highlights :D
- the wonderful memories from gaming and publishing games over the past 33 years, with my brothers, many friends made from gaming (and met in person, at conventions, and online), and now with my two boys Ethan and Henry
- my folders of PCs; my version of Castle Greyhawk's maps and keys; my favorite Chessex d20 (bronze-coated plastic with black numbers); my expansion maps and keys for S4 Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth; my as-yet-unpublished PC classes based on shadow magic, necromancers, gates, and illusionist variants; my painted Grenadier, Heritage, Superior Models, Ral Partha, and Otherworld miniatures;
- my various playtest notes and feedback from working with Pagan Publishing on _Delta Green_; my copies of all of the books I've published, helped to write or edit, or contributed to over the years, including _Delta Green_, _The Unspeakable Oath_, _Blue Planet_, _Heaven & Hell_, _Swords of the Middle Kingdom_, and _Dragon Magazine_
- a number of original Rob Kuntz manuscripts, including six of his original dungeon levels from Castle Greyhawk; Black Blade is going to publish all six, starting with _The Machine Level_, and is working with Rob to produce a DVD collection of original manuscript scans
- the _Tome of Mid-Kimia: Land of Darkening Shadow_ - the original homemade version of the Midkemia rules and setting as detailed for OD&D, written and self-published by Conan Lamot and later published by Ray Feist and Steve Abramns
- Tim Kask's Kwalishar Ruins megadungeon (which I'm going to scan over the holidays so that he can work to publish it if he so desires)
- a binder of original character sheets from Steve Marsh, including Illisio Morningstar
- proto-2e PC sheets used in the c. 1982 TSR in-house playtest for _T2 Temple of Elemental Evil_, including a variant single-classed bard
- numerous other early books/games, including a 3rd printing OD&D woodgrain boxed set, _Warriors of Mars_ (signed by Gary), early issues of _The Dragon_ signed by Gary and Tim Kask, and such
Allan.Jerry said... [i]Creeks and Crawdads. What a whacked-out game and hilarious to read. Bought it off the shelf at our FLGS in Ithaca back in 1983/1984 or so. Never seen it since.[/i]
Oh. My. God. Creeks and Crawdads made the list ? And from Ithaca ? Dear heaven, what a small world. See...I wrote it. Thirty some years ago. A-mazing.
Anyway, without a doubt my 1975 LBB+suppliments set, my first print traveller set, my first edition EPT (never run, but read cover to cover several times)and some early JG stuff. Plus Metamorphosis Alpha, Original.
For semi-obscure, we have The Fantasy Trip + the original modules (Melee and Wizard). All heavily used, and still being used.So much to choose from! My original Holmes Basic that started the whole thing, a pristine set of the original AD&D books, a complete set of Dragon and Dungeon Magazines, all the 1E TSR modules, my World of Greyhawk folio. For Boardgames, the SPI games Swords and Sorcery, and War of the Ring. I'd also throw in there Dark Tower, an original (wood blocks) Risk game, and Magic Realm.
Still, probably the best thing I have are several binders full of junk from my first D&D campaign. All the stuff my friends and I came up with over the years is priceless to me.I treasure my original World of Greyhawk Folio with Darlene's maps, my original Cthulhu by Gaslight boxed set, my first edition Deities and Demigods complete with Lovecraft et al.'s "misappropriated" intellectual property, my Ravenloft: Masque of the Red Death Victorian era horror boxed set, and my copy of d20 Call of Cthulhu.
ReplyDeleteFirst printings of the Dungeon Master's Guide (i.e., with the yellow and red striped fabric spine inlay) and dungeon master's screen. I treasure that, plus my 1e Player's Handbook and Monster Manual. All are worn from much use back in the day. I wouldn't trade them for mint copies of the identical product.
ReplyDeleteMy first set of dice from the second eddtion gamma world circa 1983. I had played D&D with my brother but didn't get my own dice until I got this as a gift. I don't roll them anymore, but i love looking at them and remembering the good times. Also the red felt bag my mother sewed for me to keep my dice in.
ReplyDeleteAh, I almost forgot. Dice. I have the original dice that came in the boxed set. Those brittle, misshapen, hard plastic dice. I treasure these greatly. I've wondered how to best preserve them for posterity. Encase them in some sort of clear resin, turning them into a paper weight? Dunno. Anyone have any ideas on this?
ReplyDeleteMy own original box set of EPT from 1979. I just reunited the box with the rules and maps after finding the box, uninjured in a closet. Plus a first edition Book of Ebon Bindings from 1978.
My original editions of GDW's Bunnies and Burrows and Starships and Spacemen. And Lou Zocchi's Superhero 2044.
My Silkscreened Cardboard (Pre-Avalon Hill) copy of Tramp's Titan: the Monster SlugathonAt first I thought you were asking for the treasures that we don't actually use. Most of mine have gotten actual use and have been inspirational and many continue to get actual use or continue to be inspirational. But as you list the LBBs that you use with Dwimmermount, I suppose that isn't the case. My most treasured? It's always hard to pick favorites. Today I will pick...
* Arneson's Adventures in Fantasy
* Arneson's The First Fantasy Campaign
* The 1e DMG
* The 1e D&DG (yes, the one with those mythoi)
* The Greyhawk folio and boxed set
* AD&D monster cards
* Galloway's Fantasy Wargaming
* Mythic Europe (an Ars Magica supplement)
* The Thieves' World box set (with Traveller stats)
* Moldvay's Lords of Creation
* Buck Rogers High Adventure Cliffhangers and the War Against the Han campaign
* Stafford's Prince Valiant Story Telling Game
Hmm...5 out of 12 are 2nd-hand acquisitions.1) The d20 (0-9 twice, handcolored blk/grn) that came with my very first hobby game (Star Fleet Battle Manual, gifted to me in April 1980). Other dice have come and gone, but this one has managed to stay and now has a place of high honor.
2) TFT MicroGames set, gifted to me by my first game master.
3) Heritage Trek, second printing (screencap cover)
4) The nth iteration of my very first character's sheet. (Honestly, I couldn't say how many times I wrote, re-wrote, re-laid out that page.)
@Kerry: "They've killed Fritz!"My sentimentality index must be a little low, since I sold several commonly listed things in a sweep a few years ago (EPT, my 1976 or so original, without box, and original MA for example), but what I kept was my original (4th printing) LBB D&D and its supplements, En Garde!, LBB Traveller (1st printing), and my original AD&D books (just the MM, PHB, and DMG, all 1st printings--the rest had been sold off in an earlier cleaning sweep.) Having started in this in early 1976, getting 1st printings of a lot of that stuff didn't feel like a big deal...
ReplyDeleteI own a number of RPGs imported from Japan. In addition to the ridiculously cool artwork (some of which is NOT anime/manga influenced at all), some of their games are just full of interesting concepts and rules we don't see here very often outside of the indie game market.
Among my most prized possessions are a Japanese language reproduction of the Traveller LBB box set as it first appeared in Japan (mine is from the 25 anniversary celebration), the Japanese cyberpunk/space opera RPG Metal Head and an original artbook/gamebook of the game Wares Blade (basically D&D with mecha).My favorite part of my collection would be my possibly complete collection of the early MERP modules. I was lucky enough to earn some credit with ICE for some rules content and used it to get everything they had at the time.
Am lucky enough to have a goodly mix of assorted Shadow World, Harn and Dragonquest stuff as well. Of the latter, the Harn Pilot's Almanac and Dragonquest's Enchanted Wood are my favorites.Wow. This one is super tough. My original B\X and AD&D1st books from '81 are probably the most sentimental. I bought a LOT of games in the '80s (Traveller Deluxe w/all books and supplements, 1st edition Pendragon and Cthulhu, Lords of Creation, Behind Enemy Lines, MERP, Rolemaster, Shadow World, all the TSR rpgs except Star Frontiers, etc, etc) and wouldn't give up any of them.
Throughout the '90s, I only got to play a handful of times per year, at best. So, I got my RPG jones by collecting various games that had always intrigued me. My idea of "collecting" would make many shudder. I have no issues using anything I buy, no matter how rare. I also have no qualms about tearing the shrink-wrap off of a 20 year old game.
The mid '90s were a heady time on Ebay. You could get some seriously awesome deals During this time, some of my memorable gems were: RQ2 and RQ3 sets, tons of the original Harn stuff, MERP books (especially Lorien), all of the Loremaster modules (especially Cloudlords of Tanara) Kabal, Thieves' Guild, lots of Tekumel stuff, Heroes of Olympus, Fury of the Norsmen, and many more.
Ironically, I may have picked up one of my all time best buys/finds just today. I scored a 5th edition OD&D box set with supplements 1-3 for $80. The box is in poor condition, but the books are in good to very good condition.
Hopefully, they will arrive by the Friday after Thanksgiving. I have an old friend from middle and high school coming to town. We get together a couple of times a year to play wargames and rpgs. We are starting an OD&D Hyborian Age campaign using Chainmail combat. It would be cool to have the real books rather than pdf print outs!I have everything published for Nobilis, with a duplicate copy of the Great White Book. I've had many other treasures over the years, most of which I sold. Of course, I traveled at least 75% of the time from 1993 until 2007 for a variety of employers. It wasn't too hard to pick over every local game shop.
Bragging aside, I also really treasured my Runequest Compendiums--until they finally came out in PDF. ;)- AnonymousNovember 21, 2010 at 5:38 PM
I wouldn't say I'm a collector for collection's sake, but my brother recently picked up an excellent-condition copy of white box d&d (old enough to still speak of 'hobbits,' but not old enough to have a horseman on the cover of men & magic) from the give-and-take at the dump, and, full knowing what he had, gave it to me instead of selling it. I've already got a copy (thoroughly used, like most of my collection), so the new one is, I suppose, in my collection strictly as a collectable.
ReplyDelete Among my most prized possessions are a Japanese language reproduction of the Traveller LBB box set as it first appeared in Japan (mine is from the 25 anniversary celebration)
I am deeply envious. I love the way a lot of Japanese translations of English RPGs are presented and getting my hands on that version of Traveller would be awesome.


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Next time you're in the Negev Desert and you come across a sweet mignonettebush, stop and listen. You might hear a tiny "Ptooey" from somewhere underneath.
In case you're not planning a trip to the Negev, then I'm here to tell you about something quite amazing that goes on between the plant and its pal, the spiny mouse that lives in the Middle Eastern deserts. The sweet mignonette (Ochradenus baccatus if you must know, and also called Taily Weed) has some nice little fleshy fruits growing on it. But you can't eat the fruit unless you do the "ptooey."
Here's how this bizarre twist of symbiotic behavior between mouse and mignonette works: The mignonette is as good a mixologist as you'll find in any trendy bar. It has two chemical weapons in its fruit: An enzyme in the flesh and a glucosinolate inside the fruit's seeds. Rule number one with these chemicals: DO NOT MIX! As you would when, say, you bite into the fruit and break open a seed inside. Because when that happens, the chemicals combine to create what is called a "mustard oil bomb."
The mustard oil bomb "has more punch than Grey Poupon," says Denise Dearing from the University of Utah, who did the study in Israel. It's potent. And it keeps most animals from chowing down on this tiny fruit. But not the spiny mouse. (See this video of the seed-spitting mouse in action.)
Dearing and scientists from the University of Utah and Israel observed the mouse delicately chewing the fruit and spitting out the seeds, unscathed. They're very, very careful about that. And that's exactly what the plant wants, if it can be said that plants "want" things. Unbroken seeds propagate more plants, broken ones don't. So the plant needs a predator that knows how to "ptooey" in order to disperse its seeds.
The research paper appears in the latest edition of Current Biology.
The mouse-mignonette bush discovery is only the latest round of plants training animals to help them procreate. There are other plants that that tailor their seeds for a particular animal. The majestic Guanacaste tree in Central America has large, tough seeds. They have to go through a big herbivore's gut before they'll germinate. Not just any herbivore...horses teeth and stomachs ruin them. Cows are just right though. And there's no "ptooey" required.
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man who made headlines with his numerous flights in a lawn chair suspended from party balloons said Tuesday that between the high price of helium and a fine from the Federal Aviation Administration, his flying days might be done — at least in the U.S.
Bend gas station owner and craft beer seller Kent Couch said helium costs five times what it did when he made his first flight in 2006.
And the FAA fined him $4,500 in February for his July 14, 2012, tandem flight with Iraqi adventurer Fareed Lafta. The fine was reported Monday by The Bend Bulletin.
"We need them," Couch said of the agency. "But they certainly dampened my spirit of flying."
The FAA says Couch and Lafta flew without pilot's licenses, failed to register the lawn chairs as an aircraft, failed to have the contraption certified as airworthy, and were careless and reckless when the balloon took off without them after they landed in a farm field.
Couch says the FAA agreed to reduce the fine from $5,500 to $4,500 after he talked to its lawyer. He said he paid the fine by certified check in February or March with money he received from a sponsor.
But FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said in an email that the agency has no record of the payment. The FAA levied a similar fine against Lafta, but he is out of the country and has not responded, Cory said.
"I think they are just making me a scapegoat or an example, to keep other people from doing it," said Couch.
Apparently it didn't work.
A La Center, Wash., man launched his own lawn chair balloon last month to celebrate his 60th birthday. He managed to fly 24 miles before getting stuck in a tree, far short of his goal of more than 250 miles.
Couch said the FAA interviewed him after some of his previous flights, but this is the first time it levied a fine.
In his 2006 flight, Couch traveled 99 miles before the balloons started popping and he had to bail out. In 2007, he flew 193 miles before running low on helium and landing in the sagebrush of Eastern Oregon.
In 2008, he floated at 35 mph across the high desert and landed in a pasture in the farming community of Cambridge, Idaho, after pulling out his trusty BB rifle and shooting enough balloons to come to earth. The lawn chair from that flight is in a museum.
He was at it again in 2010 when he raced another law chair balloonist on a flight that went about 70 miles.
Couch theorized the fine came because he had a co-pilot on the 2012 flight, but Cory said that was not the case.
Still up in the air is whether Couch and Lafta go through with a flight in Iraq. Couch and his wife, Susan, went to Dubai in 2011 in hopes of making the flight, but it never got off the ground. Couch says Lafta has put it on hold.
"I'll never regret doing those flights, based just on the great sense of being able to fly through the air like a cloud," Couch said.
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Dishy treat, anyone? How about some soft serve ice cream with your favorite syrup?
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The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch or Patriarchate of Antioch is one of the Oriental Orthodox churches. Prior to the Council of Chalcedon in 451 the Church of Antioch was united, but after the Council two lines of patriarchs arose, one supported by the East Roman Empire that favored Chalcedon and another persecuted by the East Romans that rejected Chalcedon. The Church is also known as the Jacobite Church after one of the more prominent leaders of the movement against Chalcedon, Jacob Baradaeus, and follows the West Syrian Rite.
The Syriac Orthodox Church is one of the oldest churches in the world, having its roots in the city of Antioch (modern Antakya, Turkey) where the disciples of the Lord were first called Christians. Antioch was one of the great cities of the East under the Roman Empire and played a central role in the life of the Church in Cilicia, Syria, and Mesopotamia. At the Council of Nicaea in 325 it was recognized as a patriarchate alongside Rome and Alexandria.
Although most Orthodox in Antioch spoke Greek, in the countryside Aramic (modern Syriac) was more widely spoken and consequently Syriac took its place as one of the ancient liturgical languages of the Church. It has the distinction of being the language spoken by the Lord, unlike the Greek used to write the Gospels and other books of the New Testament. While Antioch was the preeminent center of the Church of Antioch early in its history, the cities of Edessa (modern Urfa) and Nisibis (modern Nusaybin) also played a significant role in the development of Syriac Orthodoxy.
The Church of Antioch played a central role in the first three ecumenical councils that shaped the doctrine and structure of the Orthodox Church. After the split over Chalcedon a struggle developed within the Church for the control of the patriarchate, with the Roman emperors generally favoring those in favor of Chalcedon, but occasionally also supporting those who opposed it. In 518 the anti-Chalcedon patriarch, St. Severus of Antioch, was exiled from the city and never returned. Since then the patriarchs of the Syriac Orthodox Church have changed the seat of their patriarchate several times. Aleppo, Malatya, Diyarbakir, Mardin, and Homs all served as seats of the Patriarchs of Antioch, who only moved to Damascus in 1959.
Despite its glorious past the Syriac Orthodox Church is today a small remnant of what it once was due to the persecution of the East Romans in the 500s and 600s that was followed by the arrival of Islam, the atrocities of the Crusaders in the 1000s and 1100s, the depredations of the Mongols, and the genocides conducted under the Ottoman Turks and Kurds in the late 1800s and early 1900s in the heartlands of the Church in upper Mesopotamia (known as the Sayfo or Sword). Despite all of this the Church has continued to produce great scholars, theologians, and saints through the centuries, among them Sts. Jacob of Edessa and Gregory of Ebroyo ('Bar Hebraeus').
Church Worldwide Today
The Syriac Orthodox Church today is headquartered at Bab Touma in Damascus, Syria. Excluding the patriarchal Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church in India the Syriac Orthodox Church is divided into 27 archdioceses and patriarchal vicariates scattered across the globe. The current primate of the Church is Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I (Iwas) of Antioch and All the East.
Church of Antioch in India
The Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church recognizes the Patriarch of Antioch as its head in both a spiritual and an administrative sense, although the Patriarchate recognizes it as autonomous under its primate, the Catholicos of the East, who is also recognized as second in rank within the Church of Antioch and is responsible for enthroning the Patriarch of Antioch.
Structure (Outside India)
- Archdiocese of Aleppo (Syria)
- Archdiocese of Baghdad and Basra (Iraq)
- Archdiocese of Beirut (Lebanon)
- Archdiocese of Dayro d'Mor Mattai (Iraq)
- Archdiocese of Homs and Hama (Syria)
- Archdiocese of Jazirah and the Euphrates (Syria)
- Archdiocese of Mosul (Iraq)
- Archdiocese of Mount Abdin (Turkey)
- Archdiocese of Mount Lebanon (Lebanon)
- Archdiocese of Scandinavia
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Adiyaman (Turkey)
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Argentina
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Australia and New Zealand (Oceania)
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Belgium and France
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Brazil
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Canada
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Constantinople (Turkey)
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Damascus (Syria)
- Patriarchal Vicariate of the Eastern United States
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Great Britain
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Jerusalem and the Holy Land (Israel, Jordan, and Palestine)
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Mardin (Turkey)
- Patriarchal Vicariate of the Netherlands
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Northern Germany
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Sweden
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Switzerland and Austria
- Patriarchal Vicariate of the Western United States
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Zahle and Bekaa (Lebanon)
Hierarchy (Outside India)
- Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I of Antioch and All the East
- Metropolitan Mor Gregorios of Mosul
- Metropolitan Mor Severios of Baghdad and Basra
- Metropolitan Mor Gregorios of Aleppo
- Metropolitan Mor Theophilos of Mount Lebanon
- Metropolitan Mor Timotheos of Tur Abdin
- Metropolitan Mor Filuxinos of Constantinople
- Metropolitan Mor Julius of Sodertalje (Scandinavia)
- Metropolitan Mor Ostatheos of Hassakah (Jazirah and the Euphrates)
- Metropolitan Mor Ivanios of Damascus
- Metropolitan Mor Clemis of Burbank (Western United States)
- Metropolitan Mor Severios of Jerusalem
- Metropolitan Mor Cyril of Teaneck (Eastern United States)
- Metropolitan Mor Dionysius of Arth (Switzerland and Austria)
- Metropolitan Mor Dioscoros of Sodertalje (Sweden)
- Metropolitan Mor Silwanos of Homs and Hama
- Metropolitan Mor Philoxenos of Mardin
- Metropolitan Mor Athanasius of Montreal (Canada)
- Metropolitan Mor Militius of Sydney (Australia and New Zealand)
- Metropolitan Mor Timotheos of Dayro d'Mor Mattai
- Metropolitan Mor Nicholovos of La Plata (Argentina)
- Metropolitan Mor Yostinos of Zahle and Bekaa
- Metropolitan Mor Clemis of Beirut
- Metropolitan Mor Gregorios of Adiyaman
- Metropolitan Mor Severios of Brussels (Belgium and France)
- Metropolitan Mor Athanasius of London (Great Britain)
- Metropolitan Mor Julius of Warburg (Northern Germany)
- Metropolitan Mor Polycarpus of Dayro d'Mor Afrem (Netherlands)
- Metropolitan Mor Severius, Auxiliary (St. Ephraim's Seminary in Mosul)
- Metropolitan Mor Philexinos, Patriarchal Auxiliary (St. Ephraim's Seminary in Damascus)
- Metropolitan Mor Dionysius, Patriarchal Auxiliary (Patriarchal Offices)
Official Name
In 2000 the Holy Synod ruled that the name of the Church in English should be the "Syriac Orthodox Church". Before this it was, and often still is, known as the "Syrian Orthodox Church." The name was changed to disassociate the Church from the polity of Syria. The official name of the Church in Syriac is ʿIdto Suryoyto Triṣuṯ Šuḇḥo, which was not changed in the 2000 ruling.
External Links
- Patriarchate of Antioch (Official Website)
- Archdiocese of Aleppo (Official Website)
- News Site Of Syriac Orthodox Church In India (Official Website)
- Archdiocese of Homs and Hama (Official Website)
- Archdiocese of Mount Lebanon (Official Website)
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Canada (Official Website)
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Constantinople
- Patriarchal Vicariate of the Eastern United States (Official Website)
- Patriarchal Vicariate of the Western United States (Official Website)
- Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church
- Syriac Orthodox Resources
- Malankara Syriac Christian Resources
- Shroro - The Syriac Orthodox Christian Digest
- Syriac Orthodox Church in Turkey
- Syriac Orthodox Church in Canada
- Syriac Orthodox Church at Wikipedia


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This guide is an excerpt from Elad's book, High Growth Handbook, which presents a playbook for navigating the most complex challenges that startups face.
Great product management organizations help a company set product vision and roadmaps, establish goals and strategy, and drive execution on each product throughout its lifecycle.
Bad product management organizations, in contrast, largely function as project management groups, running schedules and tidying up documents for engineers.
To build a great product organization you need to first understand the role of the product manager. Secondly, you need to hire individuals with the right skill sets, including a strong VP of product. Finally, establish a simple set of processes to enable the product organization and help the company scale its product development.
What do product managers do?
At a high level, a product manager (PM) is the single cross-functional owner directly responsible for the success of a product. Some pundits call PMs the "general manager of the product" or "CEO of the product." In reality, a PM is the individual directly responsible for a product: They have all the responsibility for the product's success, but often lack the direct-line reporting of the other functions.
Product managers are responsible for:
Product strategy and vision.
What is the goal of the product? Who is the customer? What are the primary features and use cases? How do we define success, and what metrics can we use to track the product? What are the competitive dynamics, and how should we position the product against competitors? How will the product differentiate? What are some key distribution channels? What is the business model for the product? How should we price the product? The PM will work with many other functions (design, marketing, sales, engineering, data science, etc.) to answer the questions above, but they should ultimately be in charge of asking and answering these questions.
The product strategy and vision should also reflect the voice of the customer. The PM should be on top of incorporating user input and feedback into the product lifecycle.
Product prioritization and problem solving.
PMs own the product roadmap, and they are responsible for ensuring that it has the right set of trade-offs. Tactical aspects of this include: writing and receiving feedback on product requirement documents (PRD), organizing and directing product roadmapping sessions, working with all the functions mentioned above, and making trade-offs on features versus impact and work needed. Crisp PRD can make a world of difference in driving concise agreement on the product and its execution. PRD should clearly articulate primary features and product needs.
These responsibilities require a PM to be data- and customer-driven. Defining the right metrics, getting agreement on those metrics, and then tracking them will enable more alignment on product priorities. The more technical the PM is, the more likely they are to analyze the data needed to make crucial trade-offs. In parallel, the PM should strive to understand customer needs and then make trade-offs relative to engineering costs or business impact.
PMs will also spend time solving problems on aspects of the product or its development. For example, how could the product be tweaked or changed to avoid a legal or regulatory issue? How could features be modified to address a competitive or pricing concern from sales?
Note: Product managers will not work on this alone. Building a product and solving related problems is a team effort. The PM will coordinate with engineering (on technical constraints and feature ideas), design, data science, marketing, sales, support, legal (on regulatory issues), and other functions. However, the ultimate role of product management is making or suggesting trade-offs between the pristine, platonic ideal of beauty that the design team wants; the technical pizzazz that engineering desires; the "just give me some shit I can sell" of sales; and the "this may be risky" of legal. (These examples are all purposefully exaggerated.)
Execution: timelines, resources, and removal of obstacles.
As part of driving a product's success, PMs should work closely with engineering to set and hit goals on time. Often the biggest ways a PM can help the team hit its goals include: lobbying for resources or attention from engineering, design, and other functions; removing or prioritizing features and providing a clear roadmap for execution; asking "stupid" questions to see if it is possible for each function to reduce timelines or to remove unneeded features or work; and pushing back on extraneous requests, whether those are internal (design, sales, etc.) or external (customers, partners).
Many people think of product execution as something that ends when you launch a product. In reality, there is ongoing product maintenance, feature iteration, and eventually the sunsetting or killing of a product. Deprecating a product can be an art in its own right, as you transition customers away from it and deal with pricing changes or other issues that may cause customer backlash.
It is important to note that PMs are not project managers—their primary job is not just running a schedule.
Communication and coordination (overlays all of the above).
PMs should organize and communicate team status, progress, obstacles, and functional sequencing to the rest of the organization. This may include driving (or co-driving with engineering) weekly team status meetings and product reviews with the leadership team as well as communicating launch or other timelines across the organization.
Often the hardest part of the communication is conveying the "why" behind the product roadmap, prioritization, and sequencing. Part of this will be creating a framework that establishes why some things are prioritized over others, and it's important that all other functions buy into this framework.
Ultimately, product management will collaborate closely with, and at times have a natural (collaborative) tension with, engineering, design, and sales. Engineering will feel that since they are building everything, they should have the power to make product decisions. Design will think product management is redundant with design because these are very different functions, and sales will wonder why product management can't ship faster and why the PM is always trying to keep salespeople away from the engineers. (It is so engineers can focus on building the product without spending all their time on one-off requests from sales.)
PMs should also function as the "buffer" or shield that protects engineers and designers from other internal and external parties. Sales and marketing people will always want to meet engineers directly to lobby for their favorite features, while customers will want to have a conversation directly with engineering. Product management should be a smart buffer for these interactions and consolidate all input and questions into a weekly internal team meeting, or the PM can act as the primary point of contact for sales. This will prevent sales, marketing, and other organizations from draining too much engineering and design time. That said, sometimes the best way to convince an engineer of a customer need is to put them in front of a customer. Hearing customer feedback firsthand can often change minds or shape a great brainstorming or problem-solving session.
Do you have the right people?
You can tell a good PM from a bad PM based on how much time they spend on each of the above. If a PM's time is spent solely on checklists and project management, then they have a weak engineering management counterpart they are covering for, they are not empowered by company management to do their job, they do not understand their job, or they are not respected by their peers and cannot do more important work. Optimally, most product management time should be spent defining the product; prioritizing trade-offs; spending time with customers; and working with various functions on launch, feature iteration, and communication. The hardest part may be to determine whether the right person is in the right role or if your company is properly empowering that person.
Characteristics of great product managers
When hiring product managers, you should select for the following skills:
Product taste: Product taste means having the insights and intuition to understand customer needs for a product in a given area. What product features will wow a customer or meet their core needs? If the PM is joining you from another industry, they may not know the specific needs of your customers. However, they should have the skill set and toolkit to quickly learn about your customers and their needs.
Ability to prioritize: What is the value of a proposed product feature versus the engineering work needed to accomplish it? What is more important: a new product for the sales team or a feature for customers? Should pricing be optimized for consumers or small business owners? What is the 80% product that should be launched immediately, and what singular customer problem does it solve?
Ability to execute: A big part of product management is convincing and cajoling teams and different resources to get the product to launch and then to maintain the product and support the customer base. Product managers will partner with engineering, design, legal, customer support, and other functions to execute on the product roadmap.
Strategic sensibilities: How is the industry landscape evolving? How can the product be positioned to make an end run around the competition? Intel's famous pricing strategy in the 1970s is a good example of a bold strategic move. At the time, Intel understood there was a strong reduction in their own costs as they scaled unit sales. Dropping unit sales would lead to increased demand and volume, causing a virtuous cycle. Intel smartly decided to launch a new silicon product at cost below their cost of goods in order to scale market share faster. In response, their customers bought in volumes they had not projected until two years out, causing a massively lower cost structure for them and, therefore, profitability. In other words, their low pricing became self-fulfilling and sustainable through massive volumes years ahead of projections.
Exceptional communication skills: Much of the job of a PM boils down to understanding and then communicating trade-offs to a diverse group of coworkers and external parties.
Ability to identify metrics and a data-driven approach: You build what you measure. Part of the role of a product manager is to work with engineering and the data science team to define the set of metrics the product team should track. Setting the right metrics can be hard, and even the right metrics can sometimes drive the wrong behavior.
The four types of product managers
The product manager you hire depends on the type of product your company is working on. Often companies need a mix of the below. Some people can function as more than one type of PM, while other individuals are hardwired to only do one of the below well.
1. Business product manager
These product managers are strongest at synthesizing requests from external customers into an internal product roadmap. Business PMs tend to thrive at enterprise software companies or working on the partner-facing portions of consumer applications. They can work well with sales and present well to customers yet are still technical enough to work with engineering and design to trade off the product roadmap versus the engineering effort needed. They will have keener insights into product pricing, customer segmentation, and customer needs.
2. Technical product manager
Technical product managers are often (but not always) deeply technical people who can work with engineering on areas like infrastructure, search quality, machine learning, or other inward-facing work. Technical PMs can often work on a wide variety of products across enterprise and consumer, as long as they can pick up the necessary business skills and have good user intuition to make the right trade-offs in the product.
3. Design product manager
Most commonly found working on consumer applications, design-centric product managers are more focused on user experience. Some companies will convert a designer to a product manager for a consumer product. While designers are often incredibly talented at user experience and visual design, they may not be trained in making the trade-offs needed to run a business (e.g., advertising models, pricing, etc.) or may want a product to be pixel-perfect (which means it will take longer to ship the product). In general, it is good to retrain design people who become product managers to focus more on pragmatic trade-offs between beauty and marketing. Design PMs spend the most time with internal engineering and design teams and tend to spend less time on outward-facing or business-centric tasks.
4. Growth product manager
Growth product managers tend to be quantitative, analytical, numbers-driven, and, in the best cases, wildly creative and aggressive. The focus of the growth PM is to determine the critical levers needed to drive product adoption and use and then to manipulate those levers. For example, the growth team at Facebook added tens of millions of incremental users via email loops, funnel optimization, and large-scale multivariate testing of sign-up, conversion, and other flows. Growth PMs tend to work closely with engineering, marketing, UX, and, in some cases, partnership or deal teams. Sometimes growth marketing will play the role of growth product management, and this role will report into marketing.
In general, the more technical and backend heavy your product, the fewer product managers you will have. A database company is likely to have a much lower product manager to engineer ratio than a consumer internet company. When I was at Google, the search infrastructure team had few to zero product managers while the mobile team, which was more UI-centric and business-centric, had many (despite a much smaller engineering organization).
Not a product manager: project managers
Do not hire project managers as product managers. While project managers may be great at organizing and driving a schedule, they often lack the ability to prioritize features or ask the larger strategic questions. In general, project managers are not needed in high-functioning software organizations, where a mix of the engineering manager and product manager will take on project management. Project managers may become useful for hardware products, external partner implementations, or vendor-specific hardware integrations.
Associate product managers (APM) and rotational product managers (RPM)
Google and Facebook have developed extensive programs for more junior product managers joining these companies straight out of undergraduate programs. The Google program consists of two 12-month rotations, while the Facebook program is three six-month rotations. For each rotation, an APM or RPM works with a different product organization (e.g., ads, a consumer product, timeline, or search). APM and RPM programs are meant to grow an internal crop of future product leaders for each company. As your company scales to 1,000 or more people, it might be worth considering an APM-like program. Don't do this until you have a solid internal senior product management organization in place.
Interviewing product managers
When interviewing product managers, it is important to keep in mind the role you are hiring them for (see the previous section "The four types of product managers") as well as the generic capabilities sought out in all product managers (see "Characteristics of great product managers") and all hires (culture fit, etc.).
Key areas to push product managers during interviews are:
Product insights: What products do you use daily? How would you change X product? How would you design X product for a specific set of users? What features would you add? What would you drop or discontinue? If you were starting a company from scratch, what product would you start with, and why? For example, how would you design a mobile phone for children?
Contributions to past successful products: When I worked at Google, I overlapped with some of the strongest product people I ever met. I also overlapped with a number of terrible product managers who happened to be at the right place at the right time. When interviewing a product manager from a successful product, it is important to dig into their specific contributions. For example: What role did you play in the product definition and launch? Who came up with which product features? Who drove the idea to price the product X way?
Prioritization: Focus your questions around prioritization on the frameworks the candidate uses for making trade-offs rather than the trade-offs themselves. You can initiate these questions by providing a scenario or case study to work from. For example: What is a real-world example where your company had multiple potential product paths to invest in but could not do all of them? How would the PM approach this decision-making choice? What factors would fold into it? What data could be used? What is an example of a product feature that the executive team requested that you pushed back on or had removed?
Communication and team conflicts: Have you been able to sell a vision or product to your last company's leadership team? What disagreements or conflicts did the PM have with engineering or design? How were these disagreements resolved? How does the PM actively build relationships with other parts of the organization? What communication approaches does the PM use? What is important to communicate, and when? What is an example where a miscommunication caused an issue for a product? How was this resolved, and what changed from a process perspective afterward? In general, there is a natural tension between product, design, and engineering. Conflicts may arise naturally in a fast-paced environment. The key is how to build relationships to surmount disagreements and how to resolve conflicts if they do occur.
Metrics and data: What metrics did the PM track for their last product? How did they choose these metrics? What bad behavior could these metrics have driven, and how would you avoid this behavior? What metrics would the PM track for your company's product? Why are those the right metrics? How often and in what context should metrics be reviewed? How do you evaluate whether a product launch has been successful?
Reference check all your product hires
For all hires, reference checking is incredibly important. For product managers, it's even more important. With an engineering candidate, an interview can reveal if they are technically competent. For a product manager, there is no easily testable metric of competence. Instead, past work is the strongest single indicator of whether someone may be successful again in the future. Informal backchanneling, pursued appropriately, can be especially enlightening.
The best product managers have a history of launching products or features that otherwise would have gotten stuck. They successfully negotiate with engineering and design to make trade-offs that contribute to the success of the product, and they create a big strategic viewpoint that drives business success.


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This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. The civil war in Syria continues to spill across the border into Turkey. Another mortar fired from Syria hit Turkey today. The Turks returned fire. This followed shelling earlier this week that killed five Turkish civilians. Now, inside Syria, opposition activists report that there is renewed government attacks on Homs, Aleppo and according to the New York Times, a Damascus suburb that's near the presidential palace. The man at the center of this deadly and long-running conflict is Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad. He is the subject of a new book by David Lesch, a professor of Middle East history at Trinity University. Now, Mr. Lesch met Assad several times and wrote a book in 2005 called "The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Assad and Modern Syria." But his new book, "Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad," takes a different view. David Lesch traces Assad's progression from the early days of his presidency and explains why at first some considered him the hope of Syria.
DAVID LESCH: He had a different pedigree than many other typical Middle Eastern dictators. He was not, at least at first, being groomed for the presidency. He was a licensed ophthalmologist and he spent 18 months in London. And so, he was from a different mold than most Middle Eastern authoritarian leaders. And so, people had this hope that being younger - only 35 when he came to power - and being from a different background that therefore he might incrementally change the authoritarian system he inherited.
SIMON: So, what is he like in person, at least based on the considerable amount of time you've spent with him?
LESCH: Well, I was impressed with his fairly unpretentious demeanor. He was very gracious and welcoming. He was even self-deprecating at first - not the commanding figure that one would expect of the dictator of Syria. Unfortunately, I saw him change over the years and becoming much more power comfortable with power. And so I think he really started to believe in the press and the propaganda that naturally surrounds an authoritarian leader in an authoritarian system. They construct this alternate reality, particularly in 2007, surrounding the referendum or re-election of Bashar to another seven-year term. And at that moment, I said to myself he's now going to be a president for life. He has assimilated into the authoritarian environment.
SIMON: You write in this book - I'm going to quote carefully - "I do not see him," meaning Bashar al-Assad, "as either eccentric or as a bloodthirsty killer along the lines of Moammar Gadhafi or Saddam Hussein." Then you go on to see people who do see him this way don't know him and they, quote, "base their position on the evidence of continued repressed and repeatedly delayed reform." I mean, isn't that experience a truer ground than your hopes?
LESCH: It could be. But I think it's more so looking at the person and how he sees the world. From my point of view, you didn't get this impression that he was this, you know, evil, eccentric killer. But he certainly grew into the position, and I think that's part of it, where he believed now you had to make tough choices in order to stay in power, simply because he believed that the well-being of the country necessitated him staying in power. And so I think there is a difference in just being someone who's a brutal thug, such as Saddam Hussein, and someone who's, unfortunately, ending up with the same results but from a different motivation, and someone who thinks they are actually doing what's best for the country. You know, he actually believes he is saving the country, that he is protecting a country against, you know, these pernicious outside forces of which he's spoken constantly since the beginning. But it's such a warped view of reality that it really, in the end of the day, makes no difference whether it's a Saddam Hussein there or a Moammar Gadhafi or a Bashar al-Assad.
SIMON: I mean, I was going to point out the obvious, that for the people of Homs I'm not sure there's any difference.
LESCH: No, no, there's not, and which is one of the saddest things about this, because, you know, many people in Syria did think favorably of him, or at least were willing to give him a chance or, you know, didn't hate him as some people hated Saddam or Moammar Gadhafi. There were certainly those who did that, who had that animosity toward him and the regime. And, again, a lot of it was toward the system and the regime, not necessarily personally against him. And he mortgaged all that. Instead of leveraging that at the beginning and being a courageous leader, a transformation leader that many of us hoped he would be in the beginning in the uprising and using that popularity and using the populous to outflank perhaps some of the military security apparatus, he, I think, settled into engaging into policies that were very typically Syrian. You know, it was a convulsive push-button response to uprising, and he gave into that.
SIMON: David W. Lesch, a professor of Middle East history at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. His new book, "Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad." Professor, thanks very much.
LESCH: My pleasure. Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.