There is an acknowledgments section at the end of this guide where
you can find a list (unfortunately, it may be incomplete) of the
people who have helped to make this guide, possible, through such
tasks as editing, playtesting, and contributing herbs. If you like
this guide, the credit must go to all these people.
I believe that there are three people however who are worthy of
my
special thanks, and I would like to mention them here (in no
particular order).
The first of these is Ezra Van Everbroek. Ezra produced a hypertext
version of the fourth edition of this guide, and also hosted it.
This document allowed people to jump from place to place in the
guide, and to find information easily. This website appears to
be
the place that those who found out about the guide through the
web, most often obtained their information from. Creating such
a
large hypertext document can’t have been an easy task and I salute
and thank Ezra for undertaking such a task.
The second person is Druann Pagliasotti. Shortly after the third
edition of this guide went out over e-mail, Druann sent a list
of
new herbs adapted to the guides format to the ADND-L list. I
contacted Druann and was kindly given permission to include these
herbs in the fourth edition of the guide. Furthermore, Druann sent
me a list of suggestions and clarifications to many of the herbs
that I had already included in the guide, and suggestions on the
long term storage and availability of herbs for purchase. There
would have been a fourth edition of the guide without Druann’s
contributions, but it would have been a shadow of what it became.
Last, but by no means least, I would also like to single out Maya
Deva Kniese for special thanks. Maya contributed some herbs to
this
edition of the guide, but more importantly contributed a number
of
ideas, the most significant of which is the revised Herbalism
proficiency (see Appendix A). Again, without Maya’s contribution,
I would have done a 5th edition, but there is no way it would have
been as complete or as (I hope) good.
These special thanks are not intended to diminish the contributions
of other people to this guide. Everyone who is listed in the
acknowledgments section contributed and deserves their place there.
I simply feel that the three people listed above were worthy of
special recognition. All these contributors share the
responsibility and the credit for anything you like about this
guide. Any criticisms, errors or dislikes that you have are solely
my responsibility. |
