[freeroleplay] Re: Opportunities for Free Gaming?
- From: "Samuel Penn" <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: freeroleplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:00:11 -0000 (GMT)
Ricardo Gladwell said:
> Samuel Penn wrote:
>> Content material is published, then the FRPGC could
>> be a for-profit publishing house. It makes some money from
>> publishing content as hard copy, authors get a 'free' hard
>> copy version of their rules.
>
> Excellent idea, Sam: people could petition the FRPGC Publishing House to
> publish their work. We would do so for free, perhaps on the condition
> that they release their work under the terms of a free content license.
> Perhaps we could also offer to edit, collect artwork and design the
> layout. Any profits derived from hard copy sales would be plowed back
> into the publishing house to fund further projects.
There's no reason that some profit shoudn't go back to the
author, but it needn't be necessary. Maybe better terms for
Free (as in FSF) content than other (e.g. OGL) content.
It might be better to start with addons rather than complete
systems or worlds. Things like generic city settings which
can be plugged into existing campaigns. There's plenty of
these being done for d20 at the moment. Throw in a CD as
well for lots of colour maps (cheap on CD, really expensive
to print).
> Of course, the above is not a simple proposal. We would also need
> additional funding for legal advice, drafting contracts, getting
> charitable status, etc.
Could just be not-for-profit rather than charitable. I don't
know anything about the legal side, but I'd expect the first
is easier to obtain.
> I can see such a publishing as a good method of driving up the quality
> of "amateur" (we should really find a better word) works to match
> proffessional works.
Nothing wrong with amateur - many scientific disciplines
probably wouldn't work half as well without amateurs (take
astronomy for instance).
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Sam. http://www.glendale.org.uk
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