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[Digi-Chocobo Mage]

I noticed that Red Mage and Evil Princess Sara each have their own advice colums. My question is: Will Black Mage also have his advice colum as well?

I'm sure hoping that he will because I'm a fan of Black Mage.

[mammothtank]

I can say with almost absolute certainty that the answer to that is no. In fact, if I recall correctly despite not having checked it myself, I don't think those have updated in a long while anyway.

[Skyshot]

Neither the Red Mage nor the EPS columns are actually done by Brian, though. One is done by Ryan Sosa and the other by Lydia (Red Mage and Mashirosen on the forums.) Both of them are close associates with Brian in the real world. So, the Black Mage column isn't likely because it seems nobody wants to.

A quote from the aforementioned creator of Ask EPS:

Originally Posted by Mashirosen

If someone really wanted to write a column for the site on an official basis, my advice would be to write up a sample column and send that to Brian. Prove that you can write well and be entertaining enough to make it worth his time. It still probably won't get you a column, just because he's not really looking for one right now, but you'll have a better shot than most of the "giv me a colum i am teh evil blackmage pie pie figther is dumb stabbity whiet mage" crap attempts out there.

Someone actually did start up an "Ask Black Mage" column on the forums. No really! It's right here!

Note how it ended:

Originally Posted by Dragonbane

...why don't you have a full-time column instead of just a thread?

Originally Posted by Mashirosen

Because whoever's doing this isn't a close personal friend of Brian's.

That's pretty much all the answer you can get right there.

[Mashirosen]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mashirosen
Because whoever's doing this isn't a close personal friend of Brian's.

That's pretty much all the answer you can get right there.

The fact that it was lame crap didn't help it much either.

There will probably never be any more updates to either the Red Mage or EPS columns, and there probably won't ever be a new column for any of the other characters. I only say "probably" to hedge my bets -- it could happen that someday we'll somehow start giving a crap about the columns again, but I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you, sorry.

[mxyzptlk]

The death of the EPS column was formally announced, but I don't remember such an announcement for the Red Mage column. Does anyone recall elsewise?

[Squall Leonhart]

Originally Posted by mxyzptlk

The death of the EPS column was formally announced, but I don't remember such an announcement for the Red Mage column. Does anyone recall elsewise?

I do.

Originally Posted by RedMage

OK, by random chance I've come accross this thread. here's the scoop. I have a forty hour a week job that keeps me pretty busy and doesn't pay me anything. By the time I get home I'm too drained to do much of anything. On top of that somone signed the redmage email up for every piece of spam imaginable, so rooting out real emails from the spam was impossible. I still plan on releasing the books with all new sosa-fun and annotations and essays and fun. I just need to find $800 lying in the street somewhere. You can get more of my patented funny at www.side-quest.com (tell your friends!). If it gets popular enough then i can start gouging you guys for money and then I can be a bum like Brian and have nothing but free time for various projects. Maybe column related ones!!!

This is as official as it gets, said by Sosa/RedMage himself.