Help Abe Interpret This E-mail From a Company He Just Received

[Abe Sargent]

Okay, so I got this great e-mail from Wizards of the Coast, and I don't know if I am supposed to be reading anything between the lines Here is thee e-mail, cut and pasted for your perusal.




Hello Abe,



Wizards of the Coast would love to invite you to visit us! We’ll set you up with a flight and a hotel for you and one guest. It would be my pleasure to give you a tour and we could get some games in with R&D. You’d be able to ask questions about the creation process of Magic or anything else you might be curious about.



If you are interested, can you let me know a few days that might work for you?



Also, do you have any particular Wizards employees you’d like to meet?



I know you are a big commander player, but is there another format you’d be interested in playing or trying out while you are here?



Thanks and I look forward to potentially meeting you!





Ummmm.....thoughts?

[GrantDawg]

Okay, so I got this great e-mail from Wizards of the Coast, and I don't know if I am supposed to be reading anything between the lines Here is thee e-mail, cut and pasted for your perusal.









Ummmm.....thoughts?

Ummmm....they really really like you, and want you to be their friend?

[Draft Dodger]

awesome. sounds like a great opportunity!

[JediKooter]

Sounds like they might have some new products coming out or an updated product and maybe it's something like the Pepsi challenge and want to get your feedback, the good, the bad, etc...

[Fidatelo]

I think I'd be thrilled to get that email. What's the concern? It's not like WotC is some shady company.

[cody8200]

They love you :) Pretty cool.

[Coffee Warlord]

I think the first question is...is this legit?

And if it is. Can I be your friend? (even though I don't give a rats ass about Magic) :)

[Draft Dodger]

I think I'd be thrilled to get that email. What's the concern? It's not like WotC is some shady company.

yeah, they know you write and are looking to maybe generate a little PR. it's definitely a good thing

[Abe Sargent]

There are a lot of bigger names in the writing industry is that's true.

[Marc Vaughan]

There are a lot of bigger names in the writing industry is that's true.

Reply and sound them out - it'll be fairly easy to find out if its legit once you start talking ... oh and tell them that your friend Marc will be coming along as well ... ;)

[MalcPow]

http://youtu.be/Dk-a1RAX2mU

[Izulde]

This is awesome. Look more into it, definitely.

[Subby]

Goodfellas Tommy get killed Scene - YouTube (http://youtu.be/Dk-a1RAX2mU)
I love you.

[sterlingice]

I didn't know WotC was getting into timeshares

SI

[Passacaglia]

There are a lot of bigger names in the writing industry is that's true.

Do you know if any of them received a similar email?

[Warhammer]

Tell them there is this game called RoboRally that they used to make that needs to be pried from the hands of AH and reprinted the right way.

[MacroGuru]

Think about your post about your health and everything. It reverberated around a bit here and postings through FB.

I wouldn't doubt if someone caught on to it and they would love to meet you

[Logan]

So someone just gave you a company?

[Sun Tzu]

They whacked him. I can't believe it.

[Abe Sargent]

Think about your post about your health and everything. It reverberated around a bit here and postings through FB.

I wouldn't doubt if someone caught on to it and they would love to meet you



So this is like an adult nerd version of Make a Wish Foundation? :)

[Draft Dodger]

so, did you decide to go?

[DaddyTorgo]

So this is like an adult nerd version of Make a Wish Foundation? :)

So what if it is? Take advantage of it dude!

[Abe Sargent]

I'm flying out on Sunday the 2nd and back Monday night through Tuesday morning.

[MacroGuru]

I'm flying out on Sunday the 2nd and back Monday night through Tuesday morning.

Awesome!

[Draft Dodger]

cool. have fun!

[britrock88]

Nice. Do you get to bring the company back with you?

[Abe Sargent]

I don;t think so, sorry :)

[CrimsonFox]

Let me make a couple calls.

[CrimsonFox]

do you blog about magic and such, Abe? Are you big in the magic community? If so then it's most likely a PR move so you can do their advert work for them. I've been told they do so with bigtime D&D bloggers.

[tarcone]

Tell them there is a game designer named Jim Gindin with cool ideas and his new product needs to be looked at.

[Abe Sargent]

do you blog about magic and such, Abe? Are you big in the magic community? If so then it's most likely a PR move so you can do their advert work for them. I've been told they do so with bigtime D&D bloggers.

Do you not read my signature? :)

[CrimsonFox]

ahem....tl;dr :)

[CrimsonFox]

I'm flying out on Sunday the 2nd and back Monday night through Tuesday morning.

so this is legit? They are paying for your plane/hotel?

incidently I'm talking to a friend that works at wizards. Who signed this email?

Do you have any other questiosn about it?

[Abe Sargent]

Yup, i have an itinerary, copy of the receipt and everything. I'd prefer not to publish names and such here.

[Abe Sargent]

To be fair, I'm no even close to the one they would choose to give their company good pub. There are at least 100 writers who are more read, more well known, and writer better than I do who would be good choices. Magic writing has tons of sites out there. I wouldn't make a top 50 list with my small audience.

[CrimsonFox]

I highly doubt you're the only one who will be there doing this though.

[Poli]

Sweet!

[Abe Sargent]

I highly doubt you're the only one who will be there doing this though.

At this day? They scheduled on a day I could make it. Or do you mean over the next month or three?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Pretty. Danged. Cool.

In the words of Chris Jericho "YaskY" :)

[britrock88]

I don;t think so, sorry :)

Heh, just poking fun at your thread title there. Have a great trip!

[saldana]

can you see if you can get some activation codes for WoW in game pets and mounts from the WoW TCG for me? :)

[Jacob Typer]

Pretty. Danged. Cool.

In the words of Chris Jericho "YaskY" :)



Or in the words of Jericho, "Dude, what happened to our wall?"

[DaddyTorgo]

To be fair, I'm no even close to the one they would choose to give their company good pub. There are at least 100 writers who are more read, more well known, and writer better than I do who would be good choices. Magic writing has tons of sites out there. I wouldn't make a top 50 list with my small audience.

Don't be such a Negative Nancy. Sometimes good things happen to deserving people, so just enjoy the ride and be open to new opportunities hmm?

[Abe Sargent]

Heading to the airport in a few minutes, and then there will be no more Abe on here for a few days.

[PurdueBrad]

Abe, have a great trip, should be a very cool opportunity!

[SackAttack]

I feel like this thread is already > than cartman's Vegas thread.

[Izulde]

Have a great time, Abe! Can't wait to hear about it.

[Abe Sargent]

Well, i'm at a courtesy PC in the lobby of the hotel, about ready to head out to WotC HQ just a couple of blocks way.


And so it begins

[DaddyTorgo]

WOO!!!

[JonInMiddleGA]

Excellent :)

[sterlingice]

You have encountered a roadblock on the way to WotC HQ. Roll a d20.

SI

[Marc Vaughan]

Cool - have fun, takes pics ... tell all ;)

[CrimsonFox]

AWESOME! Have a blast!

[Abe Sargent]

Well I'm back! Just got back from the airport about ten minutes ago.

They put me up in this swank suite with a full kitchen and I don't know why - just there the one night.

I cannot talk about most of the stuff that happened, I had to sign many NDAs. Sorry. But it was a little bit more than just bringing me up to say hi, but a little bit less than the theory about me writing a nice article. Nothing life changing is behind the magic NDA.

It was a blast to meet basically everybody and see the behind the scenes stuff. They had lunch with me in a special room, I answered a lot of their questions about me as a fan and what changes I would make. The highlight of my day was playing a four person multiplayer game against Aaron Forsythe, Mark Rosewater and Mark Gottlieb. That was very surreal. I came in second behind Gottlieb. That was just staggering.

A lot of people complimented one for more of my recent articles, so it appears that many keep up with a wide variety of articles written. In fact, on Thursday, I published an article about a Crap Cube that I had just built, but I had to use better cards for shatter and Stream of Life because I didn't have a copy of those bad cards. Well, someone handed me a foil Shatter and Unlimited Stream of Life when I came in. That was cool. Some knew that Selesnya was my favorite guild, because about six weeks ago, I published an article on SCG called Why Selesnya is my Favorite Guild.

One thing I can talk about was that at the end of the day, because I had missed the Return to Ravnica pre-release, we opened up product and did a mini prerelease with seven of us. That was really cool too.


It was an absolute blast.



Okay, I gotta go write a thank you card. See you in a few.

[Fidatelo]

That sounds awesome!! Glad you got to go and had so much fun!

[Marc Vaughan]

Thats awesome - glad it was a rewarding experience for you :D

[Abe Sargent]

Oh, and they threw a nice amount of recent product at me too. That was nice.

[DaddyTorgo]

Awesome!!! WOO!!!

[JediKooter]

Sounds like something pretty cool to me. That's pretty awesome Abe!

[Chubby]

super cool!

[DanGarion]

So happy to hear you had a blast. Awesome stuff!

[sterlingice]

Very cool

SI

[Bobble]

Well I'm back! Just got back from the airport about ten minutes ago.

They put me up in this swank suite with a full kitchen and I don't know why - just there the one night.

I cannot talk about most of the stuff that happened, I had to sign many NDAs. Sorry. But it was a little bit more than just bringing me up to say hi, but a little bit less than the theory about me writing a nice article. Nothing life changing is behind the magic NDA.

It was a blast to meet basically everybody and see the behind the scenes stuff. They had lunch with me in a special room, I answered a lot of their questions about me as a fan and what changes I would make. The highlight of my day was playing a four person multiplayer game against Aaron Forsythe, Mark Rosewater and Mark Gottlieb. That was very surreal. I came in second behind Gottlieb. That was just staggering.

A lot of people complimented one for more of my recent articles, so it appears that many keep up with a wide variety of articles written. In fact, on Thursday, I published an article about a Crap Cube that I had just built, but I had to use better cards for shatter and Stream of Life because I didn't have a copy of those bad cards. Well, someone handed me a foil Shatter and Unlimited Stream of Life when I came in. That was cool. Some knew that Selesnya was my favorite guild, because about six weeks ago, I published an article on SCG called Why Selesnya is my Favorite Guild.

One thing I can talk about was that at the end of the day, because I had missed the Return to Ravnica pre-release, we opened up product and did a mini prerelease with seven of us. That was really cool too.


It was an absolute blast.



Okay, I gotta go write a thank you card. See you in a few.

Awesome! Does Hallmark make a gift basket of junk food?

[Radii]

Awesome stuff Abe :)

[PurdueBrad]

Very cool Abe, congrats again! Glad it was so amazing!

[Abe Sargent]

Thanks! It really was something very very special.