harami2000 wrote:invincibleoverlord wrote:Harami wrote: .... Well; if not one Mike, then <improv>, phps?
invincibleoverlord wrote:Harami wrote: ....
improvstone wrote:Hmm ... I may be mistaken but the bin price yetserday was £350 and today it is £400??
harami2000 wrote:improvstone wrote:Seriously, David it is about time we organised an Acaeum party at GenCon 2006. We could even organise some sort of gaming momento fo acaeum members that attend.Is that the target release date for Steve's "Planes" material?
improvstone wrote:Seriously, David it is about time we organised an Acaeum party at GenCon 2006. We could even organise some sort of gaming momento fo acaeum members that attend.
grodog wrote:Steve Marsh wrote:I'd love to see things published. Unfortunately, when I sold the tournament module copies I sold my personal copies, I don't have any copies of the material. If one of the people who got one when Paul sold them wants to adapt it for publishing and sell it, I wish them all the best luck in the world. They are even welcome to 50% authorship credit and a 50/50 split on any sales revenue. Editing and clean-up are well worth half the credit and half the copyright.[snip]I think that the auction winners weren't interested at the time.I agree: I tried to rally the Acaeum auction winners around the idea of publishing Steve's materials, but there was no interest at the time by the top 5 winners; see the thread @ EGG / Stephen Marsh manuscript Perhaps things have changed, now that we've seen at least one good, solid ms. reproduction published so far (Bottle City), and we can gather the disparate elements together to see them published. Thoughts?
Steve Marsh wrote:I'd love to see things published. Unfortunately, when I sold the tournament module copies I sold my personal copies, I don't have any copies of the material. If one of the people who got one when Paul sold them wants to adapt it for publishing and sell it, I wish them all the best luck in the world. They are even welcome to 50% authorship credit and a 50/50 split on any sales revenue. Editing and clean-up are well worth half the credit and half the copyright.[snip]I think that the auction winners weren't interested at the time.
grodog wrote:Over on DF in Steve's Q&A thread @ Dragonsfoot • View topic - Q&A With Steve Marsh I posted the following comment in response to one of Ian's and Steve's posts:So, I'm going to raise the question again: are the current owners of the Starstrands and Planes of Existence and City of Revenant and related materials willing and interested in coming together to publish them? It appears that they key threads are this one and the ones @ "City of the Revenant" 1978 D&D tournament adv and The BIG show of hands!I thought I had summarized in one of the threads who the key players were, in terms of the ms. owners, but I can't find that post now. My (quite possibly off) recollection is that they were David/harami, Mike/io, Ian/mbassoc, and one or two others who I don't recall. FWIW, I envision a Bottle-City-like production in terms of original materials, with notes/commentary, and potentially expansions on the original materials into a fully-playable format. That's way down the road, though Any thoughts/input, and pointers to the other mss. owners would be appreciated!
grodog wrote:FWIW, I envision a Bottle-City-like production in terms of original materials, with notes/commentary, and potentially expansions on the original materials into a fully-playable format. That's way down the road, though
Mars wrote:I asked on Dragonsfoot but I'll ask again here. Doesn't Paul have an archival copy of these?
The Collector's Trove wrote:I received a little heat for doing archives for later collections but, to be perfectly clear, there would have been no auctions for Bottle City or for the Castle Greyhawk levels or for The Dungeon Hobby Shop Dungeon or for many other items. The archive was the only thing that made way for those auctions.
grodog wrote:And relatedly, without the archives, there would never have been a print edition of Bottle City, nor any other future "original manuscript" publications from RJK (or anyone else Paul sold/will sell for. Hopefully we'll be able to muster the collectors to the cause!
Steve Marsh wrote:I'd love to see things published...
Steve Marsh wrote:They are even welcome to 50% authorship credit and a 50/50 split on any sales revenue. Editing and clean-up are well worth half the credit and half the copyright.
Steve Marsh wrote:I think that the auction winners weren't interested at the time.
Grodog wrote:I tried to rally the Acaeum auction winners around the idea of publishing Steve's materials
mbassoc2003 wrote:Mike will have the final say. If someone is willing to do the work, he may be willing to provide access to the materials, but will also be entitles to a fair chunk of any proffit. And I see this as being a labour of love on some people's part. There is no proffit to be had here. Is Steve aware of that possibility, because you really need his input at every stage of writing?
improvstone wrote:Collectors or collector?
improvstone wrote:I was (am) interested in the potential of publishing the material from the time the auctions were listed. Thus the manuscripts were purchased with this possibility in mind.
improvstone wrote:The prime reason I have not followed up on this is my time availability. [snip]Unfortunately my experience with [PPP] has left a sour taste. Allan, while you have my utmost respect you are still associated with a business model I cannot support. I have watched how customers have been dealt with since my departure. I am sad to say that the lack of communication, openess and late shippings has continued. I point this out so you understand why I am hesitant to respond to your call of arms.
improvstone wrote:mbassoc2003 wrote:Mike will have the final say. If someone is willing to do the work, he may be willing to provide access to the materials, but will also be entitles to a fair chunk of any proffit. And I see this as being a labour of love on some people's part. There is no proffit to be had here. Is Steve aware of that possibility, because you really need his input at every stage of writing?To sum up. I would love to see Steve's work published. I am also aware that it most likely a loss making excerise and I am not sure the current financial climate is the best time to launch new material.
