Idea for Trek RPGzine

[Eric R.]

Ok here the random though of the day and I will throw it out and see what the reaction is.

It seems large projects such as net sourcebooks, with the exception of the Cardassian book have been on the whole failures due to various reasons, most of whihc have been valid i.e. real life keeps interfearing. So I got to thinking wouldn't a small magazine dedicated to a wide scope of material such as templates, overlays and etc. be more practical than attempting to write an entire book. For example a single issue could have:

editors comments

Character Creation Section
New Overlays w/Species background
New Templates
2-5 New Skills
2-5 new advanatges/disadvantages
2-5 NPCs

Adventure Creation Section
5 - 10 Episode seeds (50 - 100 words)
2 - 4 Adventures in Outline (500 - 1000 words)
2 - 4 New World/ sector settings as while as havens and ouposts(500 - 2000 words)

ASDB files
2 - 4 new icon or coda ships
1 - 2 new Spacedock ships
Suggestions for new rules
Ship Histories of players ships (500 - 1500 words)

Articles
1-3 Aricles on any Trek subject which may be of use (1500 - 3000 words).

Reviews
3- 5 Reviews of new Novels, tech books, supplements, computer or CCG's (500 - 1000 words).

The way I look at it most of us have tons of stuff like this just laying around. Now as I have most of the day free being a school bus driver and all I can work at putting it together in some form if you all send me the stuff. Presentation would be simple (think SFB style) but if its works it might just improve. Distribution would be through either an e-group or here on the web site.

What do you all think?

Eric

[The Tatterdemalion King]

Exactly! Good idea. I'll gladly offer to do layout and maybe some species and ships and occaisonal stuff.

*Peoples of TrekRPG.net! Yes, YOU! Support This Idea!*

[Thierry]

Great Idea.

[Don Mappin]

Bad idea. Anyone remember the original LUGTrek Netbook?

That's also why sites like this one are around. You want to assemble stuff into one netbook and distribute it and archive the contents? Hey, sounds like a certain web site to me!

If people want to assemble and create netbooks of material then it makes having a site like TrekRPGNet rather moot. Better to leverage all the content in one critical mass than to divvy it up between online and netbook format. Also, need a ship stat for one of your games? Much easier to search the DB of a web site than to scour through all those PDFs on your hard drive -- presuming you can find them.

While I realize I'm not the most objective person in the world in regards to this issue, my comments are not entirely personally motivated. Even if I hadn't spent several thousands of dollars of my own money to keep TrekRPGNet running, I still wouldn't advocate this format for the reasons above.

Take that for what you will. [Heads back to do some more coding on the new web site.]

[StyroFoam Man]

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