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Thread : Mystara publishing model
Started at 08-21-05 07:32 AM by nemarsde
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[Post 1]
Author : nemarsde
Date : 08-21-05 07:32 AM
Thread Title : Mystara publishing model

Hi.

I was daydreaming the other day about publishing a new Mystara product line. How what I would change, what would stay the same, about what angle I'd take, in what direction, what sales pitch I'd use, etc.

These are all interesting questions that it would be great to get your opinion's on, but the thing that really stuck out at me was how much of Mystara isn't actually detailed in the canonical material. This then made me think how that might work in a publishing model.

For example, the map on the inside cover of the Master DM's Rules is only a rough guide, and iirc it wasn't meant to be a fictional map in context of the setting, rather than a factual gaming accessory, if you know what I mean.

So let's say you re-release updated products for the Known World. All of them. Would it be safe to say there might then be a demand for product detailing other areas of Mystara, the other continents?

I was thinking how it'd be interesting to never release product for these areas, to have them as freeform areas. "To do with as you will." It would also be interesting to set up an apparatus so that these areas could be semi-officially created by players around the world. Sort of like Living Greyhawk, but freeform, more about creating new stuff than developing old stuff.

Do you think an idea like that could ever work? (Not with Mystara necessarily.)

Have any of you ever had any big ideas about what you'd do if you were to publish your own RPG campaign setting?

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[Post 2]
Author : tjedge1
Date : 08-22-05 06:09 PM

I've brainstormed this a lot. As far as setting materail which isn't quite what I have brainstormed, I would love to have the entire world done up in gazateers, but this would take around 100 I would think. The one think about Mystara is the vastness of it. I would probably get permission to use a lot of the stuff that is on the Vaults since so much is really done well. The rest I'm keeping to myself. I have seriously thought of leasing the rights to do something like this or something along that line.

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