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Post by youngbuck on Feb 21, 2021 17:18:57 GMT -5
If any of my old or new material fits, sure. I think a lot of us would want to see more of your material old or new. I know that I would.
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Post by youngbuck on Feb 21, 2021 17:22:27 GMT -5
Personally I would lean towards a mxtape format. I could see having a workshop area for it here and sometimes a theme would grow out of the workshop for a specific issue. i like the mixtape format. My stuff, if wanted, is all piecemeal (or "modular" to be polite) and could be in a section or scattered throughout I like the mixtape format, that means there is something for everyone, even the "picky" people.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 21, 2021 19:40:44 GMT -5
Personally I would lean towards a mxtape format. I could see having a workshop area for it here and sometimes a theme would grow out of the workshop for a specific issue. i like the mixtape format. My stuff, if wanted, is all piecemeal (or "modular" to be polite) and could be in a section or scattered throughout Your stuff hengest is definitely wanted. Between a few of us I am sure we can come up with a lot of content. I just need to figure out creating a pdf with a halfway decent layout.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 21, 2021 19:41:25 GMT -5
If any of my old or new material fits, sure. Yes, I am sure you old and new material will fit.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 22, 2021 17:25:44 GMT -5
i like the mixtape format. My stuff, if wanted, is all piecemeal (or "modular" to be polite) and could be in a section or scattered throughout I like the mixtape format, that means there is something for everyone, even the "picky" people. True, no matter what we do, we know we will have some very vocal "critics."
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Post by Admin Pete on Feb 22, 2021 20:18:00 GMT -5
The Perilous Dreamer I think I have a name or two for you to take a look at. First Gazette vs Gazetteer A Gazette is an official journal, a newspaper of record, or simply a newspaper. A Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory used in conjunction with a map or atlas. If you do a write of your world(s) and others world(s) you could also put out a Gazetteer. So the names I propose are (use either "The Murkhill" or "The Ruins of Murkhill" or "The Ruins") The Murkhill Gazette The Murkhill Journal The Murkhill Magazine The Murkhill Periodical The Murkhill Digest The Murkhill Review The Murkhill Bulletin The Murkhill Rag The Murkhill Supplement The Murkhill Compendium The Murkhill Guidebook The Murkhill Chronicles or The Chronicles of Murkhill The Murkhill Almanac (if it was to be an annual thing only) or The Ruins Almanac The Ruins Chronicles or just The Ruins Or replace "The Murkhill" with "Frosthelm's" as in Frosthelm's Gazette Frosthelm's Digest Frosthelm's Compendium etc. or use "The Frosthelm" The Frosthelm Chronicles The Frosthelm Almanac etc The Chronicles of Frosthelm of Murkhill or Original Murkhill Gaming which is close to Death Even XIII's Old Murkhill Gaming either way the magazine is the OMG zine. or Catacomb 74 You could use Catacomb 74 from your project area as the name of the zine and some of those sub-forums could be features in the zine. Treasure Items could go under Frosthelm's Hoard Other features could be called Mysteries of Murkhill The Lockbox of Perils The Repository The Living Tome The Treasure Cache of The Lavender Dragon The Veiled Vault as a few examples What does everyone think, what grabs you(if any)
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Post by The Bloody Nine on Feb 22, 2021 21:54:10 GMT -5
I like Catacomb 74 as the name of the fanzine or Frosthelm's Hoard, either one of those would be fantastic IMO. Either way you could sub-title it The Ruins of Murkhill Dungeon Treasure Cache. Or you could sub-title it aka Original Murkhill Gaming (OMG) Magazine.
As for the Lavender Dragon, PD your dragons are based off poisonous snakes, I would change that to one of them or even make up an completely new dragon name and add it to your list instead of using Lavender Dragon.
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Post by The Bloody Nine on Feb 22, 2021 22:00:06 GMT -5
Or just name it Original Murkhill Gaming (OMG) Magazine and sub-title it aka Catacomb 74 or aka Frosthelm's Hoard.
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Post by The Bloody Nine on Feb 22, 2021 22:18:10 GMT -5
Or it just hit me, name it TRoM Magazine, from the abbreviation of The Ruins of Murkhill.
Wait a minute while I Google TRoM. Hmm maybe not, there is a youtube group called trom trom with just under 22 Million subscribers, there is a social justice FB group called TROM that has a little over 8000 followers, and there was a 2011 documentary called The Reality of Me or TROM and they have an active webside which is connected with the FB group.
So IMO this is a no go.
Howsomeever, if you Google - Original Murkhill Gaming without quotes, you already right now get a ton of links that lead back to the The Ruins of Murkhill. If you search for Original Murkhill Gaming Magazine which does not exist yet, you only get 9 results but a couple lead here and the others are just pulling up gaming magazine.
Frosthelm's Hoard - the first two results are the blog and the forum.
Catacomb 74 only pulls up results for Catacomb.
I would go with Original Murkhill Gaming or Frosthelm's Hoard as they both already direct people here. What more could you ask for?
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 23, 2021 0:41:23 GMT -5
OK, I would like to hear from the membership at large what all of you think of these ideas. I think there are a lot of good ones.
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Post by Traveroark on Feb 23, 2021 4:06:40 GMT -5
OK, I would like to hear from the membership at large what all of you think of these ideas. I think there are a lot of good ones. I vote for Original Murkhill Gaming and subtitle it Frosthelm's Hoard of the Original Edition Fantasy Adventure Roleplaying Game.
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Post by Jakob Grimm on Feb 23, 2021 4:16:46 GMT -5
OK, I would like to hear from the membership at large what all of you think of these ideas. I think there are a lot of good ones. I vote for Original Murkhill Gaming and subtitle it Frosthelm's Hoard of the Original Edition Fantasy Adventure Roleplaying Game. I will second this and I love the nickname of OMG Magazine. That is a great joke and self deprecating humor.
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Post by mao on Feb 23, 2021 5:14:33 GMT -5
I vote for Original Murkhill Gaming and subtitle it Frosthelm's Hoard of the Original Edition Fantasy Adventure Roleplaying Game. I will second this and I love the nickname of OMG Magazine. That is a great joke and self deprecating humor. Not OMG Magazine, just OMG
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Post by Admin Pete on Feb 23, 2021 14:34:01 GMT -5
My personal favorite is The Frosthelm Chronicles. I think it has a good sound to it.
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Post by hengest on Feb 23, 2021 17:22:05 GMT -5
My personal favorite is The Frosthelm Chronicles. I think it has a good sound to it. I like this one, too.
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Post by Warrior Twin Two on Feb 23, 2021 18:02:23 GMT -5
My personal favorite is The Frosthelm Chronicles. I think it has a good sound to it. I like this one, too. I like The Frosthelm Chronicles and Mysteries of Murkhill, I think either of these would be good.
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Post by Mighty Darci on Feb 23, 2021 23:00:00 GMT -5
I like The Frosthelm Chronicles and Mysteries of Murkhill, I think either of these would be good. Wow, Admin Pete that was a huge number of great names, but I agree that these are the two best.
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Post by Admin Pete on Feb 24, 2021 11:07:39 GMT -5
I like The Frosthelm Chronicles and Mysteries of Murkhill, I think either of these would be good. Wow, Admin Pete that was a huge number of great names, but I agree that these are the two best. Thank you Mighty Darci. Either of those names would be good, I concur.
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Post by Blaud on Feb 24, 2021 13:43:16 GMT -5
Between The Frosthelm Chronicles and Mysteries of Murkhill it is going to come down to a coin flip. But for me, I lean towards the first one by a little tiny bit.
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Post by Gawaine on Feb 24, 2021 15:37:51 GMT -5
Between The Frosthelm Chronicles and Mysteries of Murkhill it is going to come down to a coin flip. But for me, I lean towards the first one by a little tiny bit. Of these two I like the first one the best. But I would call it Across The Frosthelmian Sea.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 24, 2021 18:58:05 GMT -5
Between The Frosthelm Chronicles and Mysteries of Murkhill it is going to come down to a coin flip. But for me, I lean towards the first one by a little tiny bit. Of these two I like the first one the best. But I would call it Across The Frosthelmian Sea. I like all three of those. Hmm this is going to be a puzzle.
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Post by hengest on Feb 24, 2021 19:33:19 GMT -5
Perilous what I would reccomend is that you get two issues 99% completed and then do a Kickstarter for just the first Issue. If the Kickstarter funds, then you can pay for some additional art to be added in. If it does not fund, then go ahead and release it as a PWYW. Also if it funds, you can quickly finish off and release Issue 1 and then go ahead and work on Issue 3 while you get ready to do a Kickstarter for Issue 2. If you are always working one issue ahead, then you will always release everything right on schedule. I like this idea. You could even make it more likely to fund by making the main goal low just to pay for a pro to set the whole thing (relatively cheap). And stretch goals for cool art.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 24, 2021 20:47:09 GMT -5
Perilous what I would recommend is that you get two issues 99% completed and then do a Kickstarter for just the first Issue. If the Kickstarter funds, then you can pay for some additional art to be added in. If it does not fund, then go ahead and release it as a PWYW. Also if it funds, you can quickly finish off and release Issue 1 and then go ahead and work on Issue 3 while you get ready to do a Kickstarter for Issue 2. If you are always working one issue ahead, then you will always release everything right on schedule. I like this idea. You could even make it more likely to fund by making the main goal low just to pay for a pro to set the whole thing (relatively cheap). And stretch goals for cool art. Wow, those are really good ideas. I had not considered a Kickstarter.
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Post by hengest on Feb 24, 2021 21:58:54 GMT -5
Wow, those are really good ideas. I had not considered a Kickstarter. Plus, if it doesn't fund, we can still do it. And if it does well and the art and all comes out, then we have a product to wave around to push the next Kickstarter, which could even see us get paid a bit? (Not my goal hanging out here, but who knows, it could be cool).
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 24, 2021 22:04:56 GMT -5
Plus, if it doesn't fund, we can still do it. And if it does well and the art and all comes out, then we have a product to wave around to push the next Kickstarter, which could even see us get paid a bit? (Not my goal hanging out here, but who knows, it could be cool). I like the fact that whether it funds or not it still gets published. But the part about having a professional do the layout is pretty cool. Getting paid a bit would be great, but I don't want to think about that, that makes me nervous.
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Post by hengest on Feb 24, 2021 22:12:14 GMT -5
I like the fact that whether it funds or not it still gets published. But the part about having a professional do the layout is pretty cool. Getting paid a bit would be great, but I don't want to think about that, that makes me nervous. No need to think about it, I shouldn't have mentioned it. But I think a Kickstarter is a great idea for just making the thing happen. We'd have a goal (make a sample for the kickstarter), a limited period to raise the funds, and then the goal of properly spending the funds raised. We should have our materials ready in advance, I suppose, so we can have a quote from a pro and have everything ready to go. (If) funded, we kick the advance to the designer and wait to see what they do. Pay up. If stretch goals, get the art first and then have the designer step in.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 24, 2021 22:27:26 GMT -5
No need to think about it, I shouldn't have mentioned it. But I think a Kickstarter is a great idea for just making the thing happen. We'd have a goal (make a sample for the kickstarter), a limited period to raise the funds, and then the goal of properly spending the funds raised. We should have our materials ready in advance, I suppose, so we can have a quote from a pro and have everything ready to go. (If) funded, we kick the advance to the designer and wait to see what they do. Pay up. If stretch goals, get the art first and then have the designer step in. Yeah, from some of what I have read, you need to talk to the pros, find out pricing for what you want and when they are available, you have to have a budget and a timeline so that if you get funded everything flows like it should.
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Post by The Editor on Mar 3, 2021 1:46:27 GMT -5
So have you picked a name PD?
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Post by The Editor on Mar 3, 2021 1:46:39 GMT -5
And are you going to do this?
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Post by hengest on Mar 3, 2021 20:40:55 GMT -5
( The Perilous Dreamer 's post here made me write this here) A&E has a kind of energetic good will about it (at least what I have seen so far). Shock Cinema (film magazine, the print edition more impressive than the site, but the site has some of the same flavor) is less energetic but really feels homemade but well-made. The writing is energetic and punchy and sometimes has the most attractive elements of oral style, people who speak so that you can't stop listening. It is also (or seems) very American, which is not to say it would be terrible if it were Canadian or French, but just that it is unmistakably the product of actual, specific people with a home in the world. Whether you like the writing or not, you know it could not be a translation. Pendragon, more than any other core book I have read, makes you feel the love and care that went into writing the game. That in itself is very attractive. I think any of all of these qualities would be great to have in a fanzine of any length and regardless of content. More important than art, editing, anything like that (although art and good editing are good).
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