| From: | Jai Tao <jdfalk@****.CAIS.COM> |
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| Subject: | (fwd) [new magazine] Adventures Unlimited |
| Date: | Sun, 26 Jun 1994 15:19:28 -0400 |
gaming magazine! It sounds interesting, IMHO -- let's all be good gamers
and write some mondo cool SR adventures to sell to them....
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From: nigeldf@***.com (NigelDF)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.announce
Subject: [new magazine] Adventures Unlimited
Date: 17 Jun 1994 17:27:06 -0400
ADVENTURES UNLIMITED is a new gaming magazine which will (hopefully)
debut sometime this fall if everything goes according to plan. It's
the brainchild of a group of game designers in Vancouver, some of
whom are quite well known. While we are all pretty certain that we
have everything worked out and our Plan is completely infalible,
just to be sure we thought we'd see what you, our public, think about
the concept.
The idea behind ADVENTURES UNLIMITED is to offer a different sort of
gaming magazine. If we were to try and compete on the same ground as
Dragon, White Wolf, Pyramid, Cryptych, Shadis and the rest of the
gaming 'zines we would probably go under like a lead brick. Not
because we couldn't compete on quality, we fully intend to publish as
high quality a magazine as possible, but because it would be too hard
to break into the market. We are already putting enough time, effort
and money upfront without expecting to have to carry the magzine for
a couple of years before it gets noticed.
ADVENTURES UNLIMITED's concept is simple. With the exception of the
editor's page, ads, letters, and writers' biographies, the only thing
in the magazine will be adventures. Five to six of them, each
running eight to ten full pages, each for a different gaming system.
The closest analogy would be Dungeon, but we have no intention of
going the same closed system route.
We would hope that our coverage of the major and minor systems would
be such that in each issue you should see at least one adventure for
a system you currently play and couple for those you are interested
in. Each of these adventures will be on the cutting edge of its
particular system, tied in with the latest supplements, using the
most up to date rules. Moreover we will be publishing game conversion
notes to make even the scenarios for systems you don't own useful to
you.
The other thing we want to do is to make it a magazine that listens
to its readers (don't they all say that?), something truely
interactive. In particular we want the readers to be the ones who
give direction to the magazine. We'll be asking them to write in
with scenario ideas, to comment on how they used previous adventures,
and to talk about how they converted adventures from one system to
another.
Since we've yet to release our first issue, we don't have any
readers. So we would like to ask all you nice people here with the
time and inclination to give us a hand. What would you like to see
for your favorite system? What haven't you seen enough of? Send us
your adventure ideas, and if we think they are good enough we'll
write them up, flesh them out, and publish them, giving you the
credit for the original idea.
We are also thinking of distributing part of the magazine for free on
the net, say one of the adventures each issue. It'd be posted
somewhere like rec.games.frp.archive, and sent to anyone who wanted
it.
And we would like to hear your opinions about our magazine. Are we
geniuses or do we have our heads stuck up our collective butts? Is
it going to work, or are we flushing our money down the toilet? How
can we do things better? What should we definitely avoid? We may not
agree with you, but we would like to hear from you first.
Please either post your responses here or, ideally, email them
directly to Piers Brown at Piers@******.com
ADVENTURES UNLIMITED
(The ADVENTURES UNLIMITED team is Nigel Findley, Lisa Smedman, Fraser
Cain, Andrew Lucas, Piers Brown, John Fletcher, Mark Frein, Nicole
Lindroos Frein, John Hart, Brian Loranger and Geoff McMartin)
