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Post by calithena on Aug 30, 2007 11:08:37 GMT -6
Fantasy74 Publications is now accepting contributions for Revenant Runes, a parchment-bound, digest-sized supplement for fantasy roleplaying! If you're a fan of the original fantasy RPG in it's original format, then this is for you!
We're especially interested in good concepts for:
- equipment, magical and mundane
- spells
- monsters
- treasures & magical artifacts
- tricks & traps
- mini-adventures, especially site or open situation-based (no railroads!)
- cool new ideas for gaming, worldbuilding, encounters, etc.
Ideas are more important than game statistics – we can help with those. There's no harm submitting something written up for your favorite game system, but an excellent paragraph or two or an evocative picture (or both) is just as good.
We are also interested in hearing from artists who might want to contribute old-school B&W line art to the product. These are some style models that especially appeal to us: Liz Danforth, Frank Frazetta, Morno, Erol Otus, Tom Wham.
This not a big-budget production and Fantasy74 Publications is not paying for submissions at this time, although you will have the glory of seeing your name in print and the satisfaction of helping to keep old-school gaming alive. However:
- All contributors will be fully credited in the product.
- All contributors will retain full rights to their submissions. This means that if you decide you want to use what you submit later for an OGL, OSRIC, or some other licensed product, or to put it into your own fantasy game system, you can do that, no strings
attached. All you are giving us is the right to use your idea in Revenant Runes and to continue republishing it there for as long as we keep the book in print. This policy very much includes the art and adventures.
Fantasy74's staff has previously published gaming and non-gaming material in other venues, and includes personnel with professional layout and editorial experience, so you can be sure that your submission will wind up in a quality product.
Please contact calithena@gmail.com with all submissions and questions. Fight on!
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jrients
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Post by jrients on Sept 11, 2007 11:52:45 GMT -6
Cal, have you had any responses to this? I've got an idea for an item that would probably only take a page or two.
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Post by calithena on Sept 11, 2007 13:50:16 GMT -6
We've gotten a few, but there's still plenty of room, and I'd LOVE to have some submissions from you, jreints! Rengate and I aren't going super-fast because we're both in busy times at work, but the project is happening, so send it along when it's ready!
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jrients
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Post by jrients on Oct 2, 2007 11:00:02 GMT -6
Cal, I just fired off an email to you containing my submission. I hope you got some cool stuff so far!
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Post by calithena on Oct 3, 2007 7:22:46 GMT -6
There is good stuff - including yours! That art is perfect and the mechanics are super-nifty, so I reckon we'll be using it. Thank you!
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Post by kesher on Feb 8, 2008 15:55:43 GMT -6
Hey there, Cal!
You still looking for submissions for this? I have some stuff I can send you, either for this issue or another.
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Post by calithena on Feb 9, 2008 7:39:34 GMT -6
Hi Kesher! Good to see you here.
My partner on this project sort of vanished after leaving me with some very good stuff. I haven't been as diligent as I might have been either. So, I need to find a new motivated partner, or decide to do it myself. Haven't decided how to move forward.
However, I'd love to see what you've got...
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Post by kesher on Feb 10, 2008 13:38:57 GMT -6
Cool. I'll transcribe from notebooks in the next few days and send some stuff your way. Depending on what you had in mind, I might also be the motivated partner you had in mind, but we can chat more about that by email.
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bert
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Post by bert on Feb 22, 2008 1:33:22 GMT -6
Will this just be OD&D or can us wierd Tekumel freaks stick in some OEPT as well?
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Post by calithena on Feb 22, 2008 16:17:24 GMT -6
I think it's going to be OD&D-only, although EPT is so close that some stuff (spells, monsters, adventures) would be welcome - we could make it fit.
I'm also thinking that it's going to be a series of smaller releases instead of a large one. With certain parties no longer available to help I had thought this project might just die, but I'm seeing so much enthusiasm that I don't really want to let it go just yet. So I'm mulling over my options...
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Post by makofan on Feb 22, 2008 21:14:54 GMT -6
calithena - PM me with what you are looking for, and give me a deadline
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bert
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Post by bert on Feb 24, 2008 7:23:44 GMT -6
Ditto; I have buckets of EPT stuff either written or in various stages of completion, just let me know what you want and I will convert it to OEPT and send it to you.
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Post by Finarvyn on Feb 24, 2008 7:35:48 GMT -6
I'm also thinking that it's going to be a series of smaller releases instead of a large one. Perhaps these ideas could be the foundation for an OD&D fanzine instead of a supplement. Spread out the material, publish something every couple of months..... |
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Post by calithena on Feb 24, 2008 12:24:21 GMT -6
I've been thinking that same thing today, Fin. It also takes the pressure off in some ways to think of it as 'just a fanzine' or whatever.
I think I'll post about this in a little bit, in a new thread.
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Post by Zulgyan on Mar 1, 2008 15:46:01 GMT -6
Do we have an adventure scenario yet?
I'm thinking of typing my dungeon I made for a CON, or an article (or set of tables) to create Battle Robots for OD&D.
What should be better?
Also, would you like me to write a "DM's Challage"?
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Post by coffee on Mar 1, 2008 15:50:06 GMT -6
I don't know about Calithena, but I would like you to write a DM's challenge. The two you did here were fun!
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Post by Zulgyan on Mar 1, 2008 16:10:35 GMT -6
Thank you! I really apreciate it.  |
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Post by makofan on Mar 3, 2008 14:48:16 GMT -6
I have an idea for a quick-pick DM-design-your-own wilderness encounter mini-dungeon. How many pages would you like?
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Post by calithena on Mar 3, 2008 17:59:55 GMT -6
Brevity is the soul of wit, but such advice is meaningless. As many pages as it takes to realize your idea in a way that an imaginative person can do the rest for him- or herself, and no more.
(But it sounds great, please do it!)
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jrients
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Post by jrients on Mar 3, 2008 20:26:28 GMT -6
makofan, is that idea for a mini-dungeon to be placed in a wilderness or both the wilderness and the dungeon?
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Post by makofan on Mar 4, 2008 10:12:57 GMT -6
OK, I'll be a bit cryptic, but I first had the idea of a 5-or-6 room cave complex with 3-4 encounters, set in the deep forest. The idea was that a sacred place of nature power has been corrupted, and it has twisted the creatures that live there. A local druid encounters the characters and asks for their help in penetrating the cave complex so he can remove the taint.
Originally the cave site was going to be run by twisted pixies, with war bears and giant spiders the other monsters encountered. Of course there would be treasure and magic also. This would sort of be like the Book of Lairs encounters from Judges Guild. Anyway, I had a complete adventure outlined with plot and twists and blah blah blah. Then I thought ... why not make a system? Have a table to generate the intelligent baddy, have a table to generate associated monsters, have a table to generate the motivation of the NPC, have a table to generate the effect of the nature node, etc. A GM could then mix and match to create their own unique vision suited for the campaign, or just roll randomly and in one-minute have a good encounter that could end up taking the entire evening if they wished.
I am working out all the details right now, but I envision one page for the tables and 1 page for the map . I hope to make it more interesting than the bare sketch I gave implies
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Post by kesher on Mar 4, 2008 10:25:21 GMT -6
Oh, mak, that's very cool.
Adding tools to the toolbox...
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jrients
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Post by jrients on Mar 4, 2008 11:30:34 GMT -6
makofan, that sound very cool! The reason I asked was that I had started sketching out a wilderness area for submission and I did not want to duplicate efforts. Sounds like we're going in different directions.
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Post by James Maliszewski on Mar 4, 2008 23:50:50 GMT -6
If you still need dungeons for submission, I have one. It's small -- about 16 rooms in total -- but with room for expansion. News of Gary's death moved me to pull out Volumes 2 and 3 of OD&D and roll up a good old fashioned dungeon in his honor. The end result isn't specifically "Gygaxian" except in the broadest sense that it's a product of the game he created, but I'd be happy to submit it in his memory.
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Post by calithena on Mar 5, 2008 9:05:00 GMT -6
A small dungeon would be welcome. Send it along!
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Post by makofan on Mar 5, 2008 9:22:17 GMT -6
IMO you can never have too many dungeons or adventures - they are not only the meat of the game, you also get exposed to creative ideas from other DM's.
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Post by calithena on Mar 13, 2008 21:06:22 GMT -6
Nope. Counting yours and james' I think we'll have three in the first issue, Makofan. Let me know how it's going!
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Post by makofan on Mar 15, 2008 21:57:46 GMT -6
Dungeon text emailed to calithena@gmail.com. Map and artwork to follow on Monday
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Post by Zulgyan on Mar 16, 2008 7:28:20 GMT -6
Working of spells
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Post by John Stark on Mar 26, 2008 11:30:27 GMT -6
I wouldn't be able to get anything done by the first deadline, but maybe for the second issue I could contribute a dungeon map if there is interest in that. This would be a generic map, with no key, to be stocked by a DM (perhaps encouraged to use some randomg tables to do so).
If I did contribute a map, and folks liked it, maybe I'd be willing to do more as a regular or semi-regular contribution.
My maps are usually of the black and white variety (like the map in the AD&D DMG), rather than the traditional blue that a lot of people seem to prefer. Does this matter?
Also, my maps usually have some color on them. Not a lot, but I usually do blue for water, red for fire, and a few other colors rather than fill styles to designate stuff like that. Is the fanzine black and white only for the interior, or would a map with some color on it be ok?
Alternatively, since I hand draw all of my maps before I render them digitally, I might be able to scan a hand drawn to get really old school on ya...
Let me know whether including a dungeon map in a future issue would be of interest.
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