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Post by calithena on Feb 24, 2009 22:59:31 GMT -6
Today is February 24, so it's March 24. Get crackin'!
I would like to publish some sort of city-related article at some point. Cities are cool.
The dedicatee will be Tim Kask, for his pioneering work with Dragon. For #6 I plan to dedicate to Lee Gold, for similar reasons. Was there a guy behind White Dwarf that should similarly receive our charitable benediction?
Also we need to get Phil Barker, Erol Otus, and countless others onto our dedication page, all this will happen with good time. So many deserving choices...
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Post by kelvingreen on Feb 25, 2009 4:18:27 GMT -6
Was there a guy behind White Dwarf that should similarly receive our charitable benediction? Well, Ian Livingstone was the one most associated with WD; he was the editor for the first few years, wrote lots of articles, and came up with about a quarter of the monsters which eventually went into the Fiend Folio (after appearing in WD first). So if you're going to give a nod to the White Dwarf guy, it would be Livingstone. He seems pretty approachable too, so you may be able to get an interview. That said, it would seem churlish to ignore his partner Steve Jackson; as far as I remember, Jackson had little or nothing to do with the magazine itself, but he was the other half of Games Workshop, so without him and Livingstone, there wouldn't be a White Dwarf, and roleplaying on this side of the pond would be quite different. |
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Post by katana on Feb 25, 2009 4:57:45 GMT -6
When will you know what art is needed?
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Post by calithena on Feb 25, 2009 6:48:12 GMT -6
If you just have cool art to submit, or comics or humor, etc.. it would be cool to get that by the deadline. With specific art requests I'll start getting those out as we start blocking the issue.
I need to know from Lee if he wants Ixtandraz to be in issue 5. If he does it's in, if not I need to check in with the whegginator. Might be including Lord of Eyes or Hobgoblin God's Crown or Haunted Chateau (or who knows, any of them...) as a second contest entry, but I need to see what else comes in first.
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Post by calithena on Feb 25, 2009 6:51:41 GMT -6
Kelvin, I'm wondering, in terms of 'main line' D&D/FRP culture in Britain, do you think Livingstone was the guy who got it going? Or Livingstone and Jackson? What about, what was his name, Don Turnbull?
I think the GB D&D culture is also very important to the development of the hobby and was in the 'old school' days as well, and I want to honor that at some point, but I'm afraid I know very little about it. This may warrant some research and interviews before we jump into a dedication page.
I don't think it would be right to take a totally parochial view of the hobby though, given that our contributors come from all over the world, and given that D&D actually had a culture in Britain during the historical time period in question.
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Post by kelvingreen on Feb 25, 2009 7:20:13 GMT -6
I'm not a historian, by any means, so I'm working from memory here. Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson started GW as an import business, bringing in and selling these new fangled US rpg things. That developed into licensing, so there were GW editions of titles like Runequest and Call of Cthulhu, and lots of GW scenarios and sourcebooks, for those games and D&D. To supplement the new hobby, the pair set up White Dwarf (although, as I say, I don't recall Jackson having much input on the magazine itself, but I could be misrepresenting him), and worked with Penguin/Puffin to design the Fighting Fantasy series of solo roleplay books (Choose Your Own Adventure would be the US equivalent) as an introduction to the hobby.
White Dwarf was the home of the "Fiend Factory" column (among many other scenarios and articles), which eventually, in collected form, became the 1e Fiend Folio; Turnbull contributed (and edited) a lot of the D&D columns in the magazine, which I'm sure had something to do with him working with TSR UK.
(I could be way off, but I think some WD material was folded officially into Traveller too, but my knowledge of that game is limited.)
Anyway, yes, Steve Jackson and Ian Livingston were crucial to the development of the UK roleplaying scene, and would be worthy of a dedication on those grounds. If you're going to be approaching things more from the White Dwarf perspective, then Livingstone's your man, as he was editor from 1977 to 1986.
One thing to bear in mind is that there are two gaming Steve Jacksons, one US (GURPS) and one UK (GW/Fighting Fantasy). To confuse matters further, the US Steve Jackson wrote one of the Fighting Fantasy books!
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Post by robertsconley on Feb 25, 2009 7:53:31 GMT -6
I have time to do two one page maps of a settlement or whatever people need.
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Post by Melan on Feb 25, 2009 8:33:26 GMT -6
One thing to bear in mind is that there are two gaming Steve Jacksons, one US ( GURPS) and one UK (GW/ Fighting Fantasy). To confuse matters further, the US Steve Jackson wrote one of the Fighting Fantasy books! That was Scorpion Swamp, one of the better ones. The network approach to wilderness exploration is also applicable to D&D campaigns, although, admittedly, the Campaign Hexagon System is superior. Also, FF was huge in Hungary when I was 11-13, which is about the best age to read them. |
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Post by labsenpai on Feb 25, 2009 12:17:14 GMT -6
I'd like to see my mini-adventure in the next issue, since I've had the time to submit illustrations to accompany it. With another month to spare I could draw even more for the issue...people will think FO has an "art budget"  |
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Post by calithena on Feb 25, 2009 13:03:10 GMT -6
OK! Ixtandraz will be up next.
You may have at least some of that month, since illos can sometimes be turned in after articles. But anyway, you can make your baby just the way you want it. Thanks!
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Post by grodog on Feb 26, 2009 21:31:58 GMT -6
There are several UK historians over on the Acaceum, so if you want to vette who to dedicate an issue to (or, to combine several folks into one UK issue?), I'd recommend you post there in the General Discussion forum.
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Post by calithena on Mar 11, 2009 8:47:29 GMT -6
I now have the basic organizational stuff in place for issue 5. Looking forward to see what comes in over the next couple weeks.
I guess I need to start reviewing what I have for the art solicitation thread, but one thing at a time.
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Post by chgowiz on Mar 11, 2009 9:00:25 GMT -6
I now have the basic organizational stuff in place for issue 5. Looking forward to see what comes in over the next couple weeks. I guess I need to start reviewing what I have for the art solicitation thread, but one thing at a time. Do you need the comic today? |
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Post by calithena on Mar 11, 2009 9:27:17 GMT -6
No, you can have to the end of March. Keep up the good work!
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Post by glgnfz on Mar 22, 2009 12:36:09 GMT -6
Hi! I've got something that might be interesting for FO!5.
I wrote up the Wuuky (Wookie) as a character class for Labyrinth Lord! It's finished and proofread - just tell me your email-addy so that I can send it if you're interested.
Thanks for a great mag
Moritz
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Post by calithena on Mar 23, 2009 5:29:49 GMT -6
Ooh, send that along for sure!
I am going to check my inbox and with Ig now to see what has come in .... there's plenty to make up issue 5, I know that...
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Post by kevinmayle on Mar 24, 2009 0:02:51 GMT -6
Today is February 24, so it's March 24. Get crackin'! Does issue 5 actually come out today? |
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Post by glgnfz on Mar 24, 2009 2:12:40 GMT -6
So you really think a mag can be published on the day of the deadline for the submissions? How is that supposed to work?
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Post by kevinmayle on Mar 24, 2009 2:51:04 GMT -6
So you really think a mag can be published on the day of the deadline for the submissions? How is that supposed to work? Oops, I misread that. I thought it was the day of publication. |
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