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Post by jmccann on Feb 13, 2013 21:27:58 GMT -6
I have thought for a while, and I think I have even posted about this, that there is a need to edit and arrange some of the contents of this board into a more permanent form. There is a lot of really useful content in these boards, I think there is enough that people could collect and polish some of their posts and support the publication a journal or zine for some years. Obviously weakly revised posts are not going to be enough to be interesting but I think there is enough interesting material that w/ moderate effort revisiting old posts, many of the regular contributors to this board could easily produce numerous articles.
I really hate how forums end up burying interesting topics and how thoughts end up being half-developed and then lost. One big goal of the journal I envision would be to develop some of this material and put it in a more permanent form. I think that would probably not be enough to sustain a zine indefinitely, however it should be good for many issues and I think it could help develop the group of people interested in OS gaming.
W/ the old material coming back into print by WOTC, there is going to be ever more exposure of mainstream, current gamers to OS thought. This board is a unique resource and I think that having a journal strongly aligned w/ the viewpoint of this board could help mold the larger RPG hobby in ways that we would find appealing.
What do people think? If you are a frequent contributor to this board, would you be interested in submitting material to such a journal?
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Post by cadriel on Feb 13, 2013 21:34:33 GMT -6
I've decided to start accepting submissions to my zine, Dungeon Crawl (see links in signature), which will be POD and PDF ... hopefully in the next couple of months. People can PM me if they are interested in submitting articles or art, although I'll say I've already got a number of monsters ready for this issue. The problem with forum material is that copyright would get all kinds of messy. There is a lot of good linkage to various material in the "Links to Wisdom" page here: campaignwiki.org/wiki/LinksToWisdom/HomePageBut overall, I think cleaning things up and presenting them for a magazine requires more time and effort, and doing it explicitly from forum threads would require the permission of a lot of people. |
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Post by waysoftheearth on Feb 13, 2013 22:02:01 GMT -6
A couple of months back I put together a page full of links to my *cough* "essays" on this forum. Turns out to be really handy for finding stuff to refer back to (and it's also interesting to look back and see how my ideas have changed over time -- but that's a different story). I was intending to (one day) get around to revisting/tidying some of them up and then posting a consolidated resource somewhere. Sounds like pretty much the same idea you had  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2013 22:16:08 GMT -6
The problem with forum material is that copyright would get all kinds of messy. . .But overall, I think cleaning things up and presenting them for a magazine requires more time and effort, and doing it explicitly from forum threads would require the permission of a lot of people. Every day that passes I become more convinced that the natural state of copyright should be CC-BY-NC. |
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Post by jmccann on Feb 13, 2013 22:28:22 GMT -6
The problem with forum material is that copyright would get all kinds of messy. ... But overall, I think cleaning things up and presenting them for a magazine requires more time and effort, and doing it explicitly from forum threads would require the permission of a lot of people. Yeah, I agree that copyright is a little tricky. I think people would have to submit their own material. |
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Post by talysman on Feb 13, 2013 22:57:34 GMT -6
Presumably, they would be doing so, anyways... unless you want to do tons of editing yourself to get scattered posts into some coherent form.
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Post by jmccann on Feb 13, 2013 23:20:21 GMT -6
Presumably, they would be doing so, anyways... unless you want to do tons of editing yourself to get scattered posts into some coherent form. I don't that would even be legal in most cases. Everyone whose material is used would have to give permission. A thread with 2 or 3 contributors might be possible to turn into an article if they are still active but otherwise it would be a real problem. |
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Post by aldarron on Feb 14, 2013 5:26:41 GMT -6
Yeah, I rely on the bookmark function a lot as well as the search post function. In that sense, a forum post is superior to an article buried in a magazine, but I definitely see what you are saying. I think, rather than a whole 'zine of expanded web posts. What could be cool would be a monthly column where one thread is followed throughout - assuming you could get permission from the posters. <shrug>
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Post by scottenkainen on Feb 14, 2013 9:09:49 GMT -6
It seems to me there are still plenty of zines left out there to contribute to, such as The Trophy Case zine for H&H. About half the OD&D-oriented articles I've seen published elsewhere could be converted to H&H with little effort.
~Scott "-enkainen" Casper
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