miércoles, 7 de abril de 2010

Secret Arneson Party

Ok, so on this Dave Arneson's death day, I got an idea on what to do for Gary Gygax's Birthday.

(By the time it comes around--July 27--we'll have had time to decide whether we want to do it or not.)(I'm not committing to this idea until I'm sure a lot of people are into it.)

S0 here's the deal-we call it the Secret Arneson Party.

Basically, at the beginning of July, everybody who wants to participate e-mails some central someone (me, if nobody else wants to do it) a request for some specific brand new campaign material--a new race, a location, a one-shot adventure outline, a random table, whatever. The idea is to be as specific as you need to be, but not too greedy (ask for a page or two of material).

Then the person running the Secret Arneson mixes all the campaign stuff requests up and e-mails them randomly back out to the people who entered. (Like a secret santa.)

Everybody gets the requests, and then they have until Gary's birthday to write up something matching the request. Then you post the material on-line or just send it back to the person who asked for that thing in the first place.

(It probaby goes without saying that none of this stuff should get used commercially unless the person who wrote it gets paid. Let's not celebrate the Gygax/Arneson relationship too controversially.)

31 comentarios:

JollyOrc dijo...

great idea, I love it. Shall I email you? :)

Zak Sabbath dijo...

let's wait until we get a critical mass of people who are in

Zanazaz dijo...

Okay, I'm in! Sounds like a cool idea.

mordicai dijo...

I'm in. I'm trying to think if there is a way to subdivide artists & art requests but that is probably over-complicating matters.

brink. dijo...

Sounds great. Count me in unless the Zombie Apocalypse occurs before July. 'Cuz then i'd be busy.

Stick dijo...

Sounds like a hell of a plan. I'd be down for something like this.

Al dijo...

Brilliant! Count me in...

Unknown dijo...

You can count me in as well.

Al dijo...

My only issue is the name, "Secret Arneson Party" is SAP for short. How about "Secret Arneson Gift Exchange" or "SAGE"? ;)

Timothy S. Brannan dijo...

I am in. And I agree with Al. SAGE sounds nicer.

Jeffrey Runokivi dijo...

Yeah, I am in too...sounds like fun.

PatrickW dijo...

This sounds like a ton of fun. I'm in.

Anónimo dijo...

I would love to do this. Waiting for critical mass to be reached.

Rhino dijo...

That sounds pretty awesome.

John Matthew Stater dijo...

Sounds good to me.

SirAllen dijo...

I am totally in.

Telecanter dijo...

In.

Anónimo dijo...

OH man, I am in.

Anónimo dijo...

Cool. I'd love to participate.

Anónimo dijo...

In.

Ragnorakk dijo...

neat idea - I'll bite

huth dijo...

Sounds fun?

thekelvingreen dijo...

I vote for SAGE too.

I can do pictures, and I'll have a go at wordy-type stuff too, although I'm more of a Call of Cthulhu, WFRP and Fighting Fantasy type of bloke.

Anónimo dijo...

I would be happy to be in this.

David Larkins dijo...

Totally in.

Like kelvingreen, I'd be willing to field any art requests that come in. Writing's good too.

GragSmash dijo...

I would absolutely love to participate in this as a writer.

squidman dijo...

Can a poor boy from Poland come along?

Amanda dijo...

I'm in! I am an artist also, so I'd be happy to take an art request.

Joethelawyer dijo...

In! But I can't do art for shit. I'll gladly do the other stuff. :)

Anónimo dijo...

Brilliant! I can help with writing since it's what I do for a living. ;)

Tom dijo...

In. No to any art though, unless you're looking for XKCD quality stuff. That I could do. And Prose. Or Riddles. I like riddles.