Re: Anyone still...

I read them from time to time. I enjoy them, and quite frankly they have
kept me on the list despite my last group staging a mutiny to become
'regular' adventurers again. I still like SJ. The fractured source
material and lack of players whom are interested leaves me lurking
instead of putting any energies into it.

David Shepheard <david_shepheard@???????.com> wrote: I read them too,
Paul. They are sometimes fairly long, and I don't always
have time to read a long post. So sometimes I save a few up, and when I have 
enough spare time, I read them all in one go.

On the SJML they are "push" content, and don't really demand replies. So, I 
think people here read them and then move onto the next post, without giving 
you any feedback.

However, I think that *if* the old Jammers summaries were edited* into 
adventure length electronic books and submitted to electronic book websites, 
there would be an audience out there downloading them that would proove to 
you that people *were* interested in reading fantasy space adventure 
stories.

(* = By "editied" I mean:
1) remove all references to things like "events happening in the psionic 
landscape" and replace them with descriptive text that does the same thing 
in the context of the story;
2) swap names like "Chapter 1" and "Chapter 2" for names, like "The Jammers 
of Wildspace" and "The Jammers and the Chalice of Storms", that work as 
short story names;
3) pull out references to things like page numbers of Spelljammer products 
and replace them with descriptive text that explains that thing to someone 
who has no prior knowledge of Spelljammer;
4) perhaps combine some turns together to make short story chapters and
5) maybe get a bit of artwork for each chapter or a "cover painting".)

I'm not saying that you *should* go to the trouble of editing these and 
republishing them, just trying to say that they have the potential to appeal 
to people outside the SJML and BtM. I think if you had this stuff out as 
something like a PalmReader file, people who have never heard of 
Spelljammer, would be blown away by this amazing universe your stories were 
set in.

I enjoy reading Jammers turns, but think the stories are a little bit wasted 
on a mailing list, even when that mailing list is one dedicated to 
Spelljammer. We just act like spacefareres and say: "oh look, its an 
eelship" when we *should* be as excited as groundlings.

:-)

Keep 'em coming Paul.

David "Big Mac" Shepheard
Virtual Eclipse Role Playing Club
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/virtualeclipselrp/links/d20_system_001071937434/Spelljammer_001071430476
http://www32.brinkster.com/virtualeclipse/

From: "Loki" 
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 1:51 PM


> *raises hand*
> I quite enjoy them
> -Loki
>
> On 9/7/07, Paul Westermeyer  wrote:
>>
>> Anyone still read the Jammers summaries? I've noticed we seem to have a
>> lot of new folks, just curious what folks think. 

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