[BNW] e-publishing as an alternative?

[Arne Reuter <reuter@tse-online.de>]

Hi!

In response to Matt Forbeck's announcement:

On Wednesday, April 04, 2001, 6:09:04 AM, he wrote:

> I'm not yet sure what this means for BNW. AEG owns the game, so it's really
> up to them in the end. I'm currently in the middle of a large crush of 
> writing things for release this summer from other companies. Once I get 
> through with that, I'll be exploring different options, although again, it's 
> not entirely up to me what happens. 

Is there any chance to have them revert the rights to the game back to
you personally?

If it is presumed they would like to support the game (and their good name in the
community ;-)) it might be an idea to turn to e-publishing (which
obviously is only a second best solution).

I found several small companies trying that - within the D&D3ed
context and for generic material.

Take for example www.hyperbooks.com. There you get some (not very much
yet) great gaming material in pdf-format. One of the featured artists,
Eric Hotz, is using it quite successfully (a friend of mine is close to columbia games -
so he pointed that out to me).

If the rights question is cleared, you could at least keep the game
alive by publishing an adventure or two, smaller stuff like that. Just
to keep us hooked ;).

> At the very least, I hope to be able to do something with the Crossroads 
> concept within the year. I'd rather not end up publishing it myself, since 
> setting up a company to do so for a single book doesn't seem like the best 
> way to keep food on my family's table. Still, it may come to that in the end. 

Understandable. Everybody who has to work for his/her food will ;-).

For Love and Liberty,

Arne Reuter

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