Where do we go from here? We Fight On!
Jul 30, 2024 17:58:49 GMT -6
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Post by calithena on Jul 30, 2024 17:58:49 GMT -6
I thought I’d try to share the plan for the fanzine going forward. For now at least, the news is all good!
There will be more issues. The next issue, #16, will be dedicated to David Trampier, and I’m hoping for a Winter release. (There will be a call for submissions soon, but if you have something cool, just send it.) We’re going to try to do at least two issues a year for the foreseeable future, maybe more if things go well.
There will be an art contest with cash prizes in honor of David A. Trampier and David C. Sutherland III, following up on our awesome Erol Otus contest of yore. Details on that will be announced no later than the end of August!
There may be some paying side projects in the future that some people can get in on. If Fight On! contributors want our help developing their own projects, we may be able to work out a deal on that. (I know I have a couple dungeons I’ve wanted to release as stand-alones for a long time, if I ever can get around to it!) We may try a Kickstarter for a Darkness Beneath megadungeon combined volume, with lots of things rewritten, especially if we can get Sham on board. There is a lot of framing material I’ve developed for the whole complex, only tiny fragments of which have been published, and there are a few levels which the original authors or others have developed well beyond what was originally published, and bringing the complex together even more than it already is should only increase the coolness of the whole thing. So that’s an aspirational goal. (By the way, if any of you running TDB have written your own sublevels, those make for great submissions to the ‘zine!)
Those intriguing possibilities aside, as long as Ig and I are running Fight On! it will remain what it is, a fanzine and not a for-profit venture, designed to keep the old ways alive and bring together whatever creative ideas people want to share under that umbrella. We hope that new and old contributors will continue to make the ‘zine awesome, and we’re so glad to be back. Fight On!
There will be more issues. The next issue, #16, will be dedicated to David Trampier, and I’m hoping for a Winter release. (There will be a call for submissions soon, but if you have something cool, just send it.) We’re going to try to do at least two issues a year for the foreseeable future, maybe more if things go well.
There will be an art contest with cash prizes in honor of David A. Trampier and David C. Sutherland III, following up on our awesome Erol Otus contest of yore. Details on that will be announced no later than the end of August!
There may be some paying side projects in the future that some people can get in on. If Fight On! contributors want our help developing their own projects, we may be able to work out a deal on that. (I know I have a couple dungeons I’ve wanted to release as stand-alones for a long time, if I ever can get around to it!) We may try a Kickstarter for a Darkness Beneath megadungeon combined volume, with lots of things rewritten, especially if we can get Sham on board. There is a lot of framing material I’ve developed for the whole complex, only tiny fragments of which have been published, and there are a few levels which the original authors or others have developed well beyond what was originally published, and bringing the complex together even more than it already is should only increase the coolness of the whole thing. So that’s an aspirational goal. (By the way, if any of you running TDB have written your own sublevels, those make for great submissions to the ‘zine!)
Those intriguing possibilities aside, as long as Ig and I are running Fight On! it will remain what it is, a fanzine and not a for-profit venture, designed to keep the old ways alive and bring together whatever creative ideas people want to share under that umbrella. We hope that new and old contributors will continue to make the ‘zine awesome, and we’re so glad to be back. Fight On!
