mbassoc2003 wrote in EGG / Stephen Marsh manuscript:Given the financial resources of many collectors, and the literary expertise and business acumen of some members, one would imagine the combined effort of the right team, and the use of an online crowd funding platform, could see any 'viable' project successfully through to fruition. The question really is, do you have a 'viable product' that can be published at an acceptable standard, and a cost that the market will bear?You can outsource rewriting, editing, development, etc. to others. It's all a matter of how much you wish to be involved and how much control you are happy to give away. Just on board here we have numerous publishers of varying expertise, all of whom have varying degrees of success, and outside of the forum you have Goodman Games (who may or may not do 1E/2E/3E work anymore) and Frog God Games who are eminently capable for bringing product to market.I, for one, would love to see Planes of Existence and City of the Revenant become commercially available products. The question remains, is it financially viable for them to do so?
The various realms of The Shadowfell are a dark version of the prime material plane each realm is near, usually with pockets or sealed regions (the prisons). Each realm functions as an entry-way to the negative material plane for the material plane the realm is connected to and each realm functions as a layer from the plane of shadow to the negative energy planes, one of the (perhaps many) ante-rooms to the abyssal levels and realms. Adventurers hear about The Shadowfell since it is the sort of place of great risk and reward that stirs attention, as well as containing the prisons that are no longer as secure or one-way as they once may have been, allowing stories to escape. Those who created the prisons were negative energy plane Great Decays or demigod level evil powers that drew energy from those they had imprisoned. When one of those Decays falls or is destroyed, if the prisons they were farming (so to speak) are not cultivated by another, those prisons begin (or may begin) to weaken and it becomes more likely that outsiders can enter or those within may be able to escape. In addition, a prison that is still owned or used for power may be permeable so that more life can enter as new fuel for it. Those imprisoned are already in a lesser hell and some prisons upon collapse fall into the Abyss rather than rejoining The Shadowfell. As a result of its function and location, The Shadowfell is both darker or more negative than true shadow (which is a balance of light and darkness) and much more solid or concrete (as each instance of The Shadowfell is more firmly tied the prime material plane it feeds from). The flux driven by the balance of positive and negative energy no longer occurs in The Shadowfell as it is not in balance. However, it is often easier to reach as it pulls those who are nearer to the Abyss to itself creating pathways that are easier for all to transverse. Many who think they are merely passing through the Plane of Shadow are actually being drawn closer and closer to the Abyss through The Shadowfell.
Steve Marsh wrote in EGG / Stephen Marsh manuscript:BTW, in case anyone was curious of how the Plane of Shadow fits into the cosmology from the books ... The various realms of The Shadowfell are a dark version of the prime material plane each realm is near, usually with pockets or sealed regions (the prisons). It functions as an entry-way to the negative material plane for the material plane it is connected to (a subset of Shadow) and it works as a layer from the shadow to the negative energy planes, one of the (perhaps many) ante-rooms to the abyssal levels and realms. Adventurers hear about The Shadowfell since it is the sort of place of great risk and reward that stirs attention, as well as containing the prisons that are no longer as secure or one-way as they once may have been, allowing stories to escape. Those who created the prisons were negative energy plane Great Decays or demigod level evil powers that drew energy from those they had imprisoned. When one of those Decays falls or is destroyed, if the prisons they were farming (so to speak) are not cultivated by another, those prisons begin (or may begin) to weaken and it becomes more likely that outsiders can enter or those within may be able to escape. In addition, a prison that is still owned or used for power may be permeable so that more life can enter as new fuel for it. Those imprisoned are already in a lesser hell. As a result The Shadowfell is both darker or more negative than true shadow (which is a balance of light and darkness) and more concrete (as each instance of The Shadowfell is more firmly tied the prime material plane it feeds from).
Steve Marsh wrote in EGG / Stephen Marsh manuscript:I'm now looking for a copy of the star falcon rules I did with Mike Gunderloy and the Phoenix rules I did with Sean Summers. Both ended up in A&E.I wrote Lee Gold and those back issues are not currently available.
Steve Marsh wrote in EGG / Stephen Marsh manuscript:BTW, between AD&D and OSR does anyone have a preference?
