Idea that just popped in my head..gah get it out!!!

1-2 pages of news/articles about Judges Guild every month or so.
Collected data like what products are on the schedule, 1 of a .... Hex detailed, Where in the world is Bob Bledsaw , who knows..but something that people can contribute to and is a centralized place for news about Judges Guild.

Ideas, Good, bad, or am I just crazy

ShaneG.

Believe me, publishing is a LOT more difficult than it seems. Even publishing a couple pages a month could, as a sideline, take up an entire week of nights.

Richard Tongue used to publish the excellent OD&Dities fanzine, before it overwhelmed him. The same for Tome of Mystara, and even a revived Pegasus from the Geilmans (print and PDF format).

Even a few pages a month will take up a lot of time, energy, and sanity.

That said, I would love to to a print version of Pegasus myself, but as that would be competition for my day job (not that there's any RPG advertising out there, anymore, but that's not how the company thinks of it), that is out of the question.

I'd be happy to support the online effort in any way I can.

Maybe I could host it on www.adventuregamespubs.com

I've reconsidered the whole forums idea for now; there's more than enough forums coverage already of JG stuff. Between the forums at Necromancer Games, Troll Lord Games, Dragonsfoot, the Wayfarer's Inn, and the Acaeum, I hardly have time for any OTHER forums...

I'm sure everyone has noticed that the JG site sponsored by Necromancer has not been updated in well over a year.  There once was a good deal of fan material making its way to that site.  It is my understanding that Melan and others had more material to submit, but the lack of a webmaster or Necromancer support has placed that work on hold.  I too had been working on a submission, but set it aside with no hope of a host.  I was working on 3.5 update to the Inn of the Sunken Bridge, originally printed in Journal P.  I was even making maps of the inn at 1" scale for miniatures.  If there were no IP issues to overcome, I bet there would be a lot more fan material.

Sometimes people think that a fanzine or other amateur production is not a success unless it runs for a long time.

In fact, some of the short run or one-shot publications are the ones that are considered most valuable and collectible in our own hobby.  Among the most valuable are publications from companies that did not long survive even as labors of love.

One advantage of an electronic publication is that the need for constant infusions of cash is not as all-dominating.  Also, as long as a disk holds the data, an electronic magazine remains in print.

My pdf's of Judges Guild products...purchased for next to nothing from DrivethruRPG.com...are pretty cool...and I actually refer to them more often than the originals.   My copy of Temple Book I is much more useful now that I have it in electronic form.  It was electronic copies of Citadel of Fire and Dark Tower that drove me to collecting the real things.

I think there must be far more Greyhawk fan material out there than was every published by TSR.

Mark  

[drools] There were a few larger projects I planned (like detailing the Old South Road area in Barbarian Altanis) [/drools]

[cries] which are definitely dead, though.[/cries]