Re: Submissions to Compendium...

>From: Static
>
>Howdy all,
>

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>         I've been told that people don't submit material to Compendium
>because the guidelines -- i.e. they don't want their hard work to be
>judged by some council.  The rest of the nonsense I don't have an answer
>for, since I barely understand what's going on.  All I know is this
>constant bickering about "officialness", "canon" and the"right and true
>way to convert SJ to 3e" has made the setting unfun for me.
>

Sadly, I think the only way that new material will be established as
"official" or "canon" is if it is published by WotC, RPGA, or someone with a
big piece of paper from those organisations appointing that person as
Campaign Coordinator. From an outside perspective, it would seem possible to
make that happen.

>         I have a proposal for this list to try and solve some of the
>above problems.  Let's drop this elaborate and official process we've
>got.  Nobody seems to want it -- not even me, and I wrote the damned thing!
>Compendium will follow a pattern closer to BtM (i.e. people send me stuff,
>or I find cool stuff, and it gets posted).  Some of the material needs to
>get past WotCs name brand gurus (the guys who'll tell us when we stray (:),
>but there'll be no official judging process.  The council will still exist
>in some form, but mostly to help keep me on track.
>

I agree. Drop the pretense of democracy, which has only made it cumbersome
and divisive - the members of this list, or any other, do not represent the
Spelljammer community.

Send submissions as a file attachment direct to the Coordinator (or
whoever), who may consult a group of active and knowledgeable SJ DMs if he
chooses. The poster might also, or previously, post the idea to the list for
comment but is not required to do so. Submissions are posted without editing
to an unofficial site, for DMs to use if they choose.

A selection of them could then be published in an official collection, or
added to a single working document, which would be the only means of adding
to the canon.

Jim C

>         What does everybody think?  I'd prefer to have a discussion
>of ways to solve all the above issues -- I can't do it alone -- instead
>of simple, "Yeah go for it," posts.  Show me that you guys care.  I'm
>starting to get the feeling nobody does anymore... :(
>
>-Static
>


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