True20 Setting Search Winners TBA in Dragon Magazine

[Dragonspawn]

Announcement is on the Green Ronin home page.

I wonder if this partnership means there is the possibility that dragon magazine may be printing True20 material in the future?

That would be a match made in heaven.

[Tim Gray]

Now that would be interesting.

As to the announcement: obviously they'll be contacting everyone who sent a submission before this goes out - and if the Dragon issue is actually out in early January, print deadlines mean they ought to be getting in touch very, very soon. *nervous*

[REG]

Alright, I have a question:

Is Paizo launching an official True20 magazine?

[The Shadow]

I'm amazed nobody's yet mentioned the fact that the runners-up will appear in yet ANOTHER hardback book - True20 Worlds of Adventure! That's exciting!

Will the runners-up also get to use the license, I wonder?

[Tim Gray]

Will the runners-up also get to use the license, I wonder?

I'd have thought the dealio would be exactly the same.

[Blue Devil]

Will the runners-up also get to use the license, I wonder?

Yes. I believe Chris mentioned this in another thread on another site (EN World?).

[timemrick]

Yes. I believe Chris mentioned this in another thread on another site (EN World?).

Could someone post a link to that here? I'd like to hear more, but refuse to navigate the infinite wilds of EN World without a guide...

[REG]

Well? Is Paizo launching a new magazine, solely dedicated to True20 games?

Because I doubt they want to put True20 support material in Dragon. The damn readership is strong enough to cancel Dragon Annual right after they published that "d20 Special" issue.

And may I remind you how pissed I was when Dungeon readers protested Polyhedron magazine (one of the first to promote non-D&D games from WotC) being married together ... and they won?

Well?

[Tim Gray]

The news announcement that we have is that Dragon will be plugging the launch of True20. That's all.

The idea of them launching a specialist magazine for a brand new unproven game that's trivially compatible with the material they already publish is just pie in the sky. What I would guess they will do is continue to feature new True20 publications, especially if its print success mirrors what it's achieved in PDF.

[FickleGM]

Heck, I would mind seeing a True20 e-zine (I don't think that the market is large enough to justify a print magazine). I always found the Fudge Factor e-zine to be useful for what it was (a fan-based e-zine for a free game system - the basic Fudge pdf is free).

One alternative could be to use this forum as a starting ground. For example, threads could be formatted as so:

Post #1: Subject = True20 "Fanzine" Issue 1

Body = {some intro verbiage, editorial style - a different person could do this for a given issue, this could have anything to do with True20...followed by a table of contents of the 3 or 4 "articles" in the issue (and as the articles are posted, the thread starter can link the table of contents to the post - to save from having to scroll to each post - and to allow navigation around any non-issue related posts in the thread).

Post #2: this would be the first "article"

Post #3: this would be the second "article"

...and so on...

I don't think that this would violate any "terms of service" for the use of these boards.

Let me know if this is something that you think is worth pursuing and I can start a new thread to discuss is (there are already many good posts on this forum that can be used for this). I could also see the possibility of "stickying" a master index that would give a link to each "issue" along with a synopsis of the contents of said "issue".

Anyway, just a few thoughts that I had while eating Pop-Tarts this morning...