Feel free to browse the sample here. To get an idea of the look and feel of it.
http://www.ravenloft.150m.com/fourpage.htm
Cheers.
1) What you posted isn't a sample - it's useless preview images. Samples would actually be able to be read. There is no way to get the "look and feel" of your adventure from this preview.
2) You are not affiliated with Sword and Sorcery, near as I can tell, and the site you are previewing within is an advertising site, implying that you intend to sell this adventure. That's a big no-no, as Ravenloft is *not open content*. If I'm wrong, correct me.
3) Your "preview" site tried to install GAIN on my computer, which I regard as a personal insult and attack. Stop it or move to a different page. There are plenty of free web pages that don't try to instal invasive adware to visitors.
4) Your cover is clearly a portrait photoshop of Leonardo diCaprio, and again, unless you're his agent or with his agent, using such a clear and obvious likeness in the sale or distribution of a product requires the payment of likeness rights for copyrights, except in the case of parody.
Don't mean to be mean or anything, but these are important concerns.
Hida Jiremi
(Jeremy Puckett)
Originally posted by hida_jiremi
[2) You are not affiliated with Sword and Sorcery, near as I can tell, and the site you are previewing within is an advertising site, implying that you intend to sell this adventure.
Where did he said he wanted to sell it ? Pinpoint me this, please.
4) Your cover is clearly a portrait photoshop of Leonardo diCaprio, and again, unless you're his agent or with his agent, using such a clear and obvious likeness in the sale or distribution of a product requires the payment of likeness rights for copyrights, except in the case of parody.
I've showed the image of the cover to my kids and one of their friend - Di Caprio fans. They didn't see any ressemblance ... I guess it's a matter of taste......
Don't mean to be mean or anything, but these are important concerns.
Don't want to be mean, but I think you should relax
Remember that this guy wrote a 50 pages adventure, and those should not be all the comments he gets.Joël
As for the 'sample', well the whole adventure will be released through the fraternity of shadows for free. Then I'll probably scrap the temporary page.
We are just fans of the setting, and all we are doing is just filling an obvious need for a fan-based adventure.
Originally posted by hida_jiremi
1) What you posted isn't a sample - it's useless preview images. Samples would actually be able to be read. There is no way to get the "look and feel" of your adventure from this preview.
Fans like this are why I never felt sorry about not finishing Death Undaunted.
Originally posted by hida_jiremi
2) You are not affiliated with Sword and Sorcery, near as I can tell, and the site you are previewing within is an advertising site, implying that you intend to sell this adventure. That's a big no-no, as Ravenloft is *not open content*. If I'm wrong, correct me.
Just so you know, whenever you chew someone out because of a factoid you've invented, you tend to come off as, well, let's settle on "silly."
Azalin used to call this sort of thing "imaginary questions."
He hasn't said anywhere that he intends to sell this adventure, and the presence of a banner ad in no way makes that implication. Which is not to say that such an adventure is legally in the clear, but then again no Ravenloft fan creation ever was, and needs to be considered from that perspective. This adventure, like all the Kargatane netbooks and the Quoth the Raven stuff, exists at the grace of the license holders and owners.
Originally posted by hida_jiremi
3) Your "preview" site tried to install GAIN on my computer, which I regard as a personal insult and attack. Stop it or move to a different page. There are plenty of free web pages that don't try to instal invasive adware to visitors.
Adware is a pain. That said, your reaction is slightly less ridiculous than claiming that his website punched your mother.
Do yourself a favor and save a copy of the above point for yourself. Five years from now, read it again. When reading it, if you don't think you came off as shrill and hysterical -- it'll mean you haven't improved in the meantime.
Originally posted by hida_jiremi
4) Your cover is clearly a portrait photoshop of Leonardo diCaprio, and again, unless you're his agent or with his agent, using such a clear and obvious likeness in the sale or distribution of a product requires the payment of likeness rights for copyrights, except in the case of parody.
Heh. No. Take a look at the Domains of Dread darklord portraits sometime.
Originally posted by hida_jiremi
Don't mean to be mean or anything, but these are important concerns.
No, they're signs of someone who lacks perspective and is ill-versed in the facts.
I would also like to note that I still think the art is a photoshop of Leo, but meh.
However, if John M. believes that fans like me are why he gave up writing free adventures, he obviously hasn't met the really bad ones. In the many posts I've made on these boards, this is the first time I've been out of line, rude, or even close to nasty. Check my record on this - hell, Mangrum's been meaner than I have on a much more regular basis.
I'm a contributing member of this community - maybe not on Mangrum's level, but I do my part. And when I get rebuked - fairly, I'll continue to admit - on a matter of netiquette and a (fairly major, but honest) mistake, I would prefer to not get held up as an example of everything that's bad with the fan community. It's petty and unnecessary. I already feel bad enough for screwing up - don't start blaming me or "fans like me" for making you give up adventure writing. If you gave up, it's because *you* wanted to.
Criticism goes with the territory; I'm a professional writer too, trying to get into the gaming industry after having some minor success writing short stories and fan material, and being told that you suck happens, mistakes where people only think you suck happen, and actually sucking will happen too. I personally think that Mangrum's an excellent author, current personality clash aside, and I hope that someday I can be as recognized as he is, but right now I feel a little bit irritated that one bad comment - my first bad comment, in fact - could be so horribly twisted into an indictment of the fan community as a whole. It's not just an insult to me, it's an insult to all fans - demanding, or otherwise.
Now that I've vented a bit, let me say it again: I apologize for my mistaken point of view.
Hida Jiremi
(Jeremy Puckett)
Set in Invidia, is it?
Originally posted by hida_jiremi
A few things,
1) What you posted isn't a sample - it's useless preview images. Samples would actually be able to be read. There is no way to get the "look and feel" of your adventure from this preview.
I don't know about the reat of it, but I agree with this. I CAN'T READ THE DARN THING!!!
