Tag: Mark Tygart

I post my Dungeon Starter drafts on the Tavern for several reasons and I rarely get any criticism that personally stings. I do have a process for review of images to insure that they are “fair use” under copyright law but several tavern members objected to my use of “pathfinder goblins” more out of concern for me than rebuke. Yet my methods assured me these images should be O.K. for use by fans. I prided myself previously that my standards were higher than the general internet community. Ray Otus’ comments in particular shook me up a bit.

The creation of these concerns was enough for me to dump the images but I did take the time to track down Pazio’s permissions to confirm that fans can use many illustrations in a nonprofit setting.

However, my critics were justified, I had missed that Paizo requires me to register with them to use the illustrations. I would have been in violation of their rights despite my efforts. So thank you my Tavern colleagues for keeping me honest. I have posted Paizo’s link below if anyone wants to use the illustrations. Since I find the need for registration onerous (and widely ignored by many) I will not be using them, but I salute their fine artists.

File this under live and learn I guess. Thanks to Andrea Parducci and Ray Otus for keeping me honest. I will revise my methods.

Please know I would never knowingly behave in a unethical manner and my apologies to my fellow Tavern members.

http://paizo.com/paizo/about/communityuse

Heard about the Monster-of-the-Week fan collection of mysteries and want to join in the upcoming collection as an aspiring RPG module writer?

Only problem is that you don’t know what the heck Monster of the Week is?

Monster of the Week or “MotW” is a monster hunting PbtA RPG based on television shows like Supernatural or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This product is also going to introduce rules to make it easier to run “X-files or Fringe adventures”, something that a lot of MotW players already do.

A typical mystery involves investigating a strange situation, discovering a monster and its weakness and then the dangerous climax of killing it.

The MotW Rulebook and quite a few free “goodies” can be found at:

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/143518/Monster-of-the-Week

The Rulebook has sample mysteries on pages 149 – 161 (Dream Away the Time) and another on pages 273 – 285 (Damn Dirty Apes).

Here’s another example: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7cav44145d9dTM3NUYteDBPVTQ/view?usp=sharing

Also check out the MotW Roadhouse, it is the MotW version of the Dungeon Tavern: https://plus.google.com/communities/110209328442902551212/stream/56aba946-716a-47ba-8ff3-97d9abcf7b9e

Look up the “Mysteries” section. A lot of adaptions and my starters, but some “full mysteries” as well. FYI my starters are almost full mysteries and some may be expanded for the collection, depending on the number of publishable submissions.

We’re interested in short ,creative mysteries that have a cool concept and are easily adaptable to the users’ individual games.

We would also be interested in (in order of desirability) play advice, art, custom moves and other rules variants, and new hunter classes.

It will be a profit share gig, so each piece contributed will earn you a share of ongoing sales.

If you have ideas for other material, please write up one short sample mystery or other material (up to 500 words) and email it to michael.sands@genericgames.co.nz by the 18th of December 2016.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/143518/Monster-of-the-Week

Hey guys, Monster of the Week is a cool PbtA game of monster hunting that is easy to learn and fun to play. Michael Sands is launching a crusdade to collect good fan written MotW modules called “mysteries” to a PDF product and share the proceeds with the writers. If you would like to get your feet wet as a RPG game writer this is a fairly forgiving place to start.

If this works it may be possible to apply this model to Dungeon World products as well. I would love to do another collection of Dungeon Starters with my Tavern friends and I already have a mini-project with Chris Stone-Bush that could roll over into something like this. Anyway, I will be part of this project and would invite Tavernites to learn about this system and submit. MotW Mysteries are generally only a few pages and I even developed a DW style “Mystery Starter” for Monster of the Week but we want the full fledged MotW mystery for this project.

I’ll let Michael speak-

Here’s Michael-

We want your mysteries! A not-so-secret cabal are going to put together a collection of Monster of the Week mysteries, and we need writers!

It will be a profit share gig, so each piece contributed will earn you a share of ongoing sales.

We’re interested in short (less than 1000 words), creative mysteries that have a cool concept and are easily adaptable to the users’ individual games.

I’ll be including my expanded weirdness rules for games that are more Fringe and X-Files than Supernatural and Buffy, as well, so mysteries that use those would also be appreciated. Get the draft at http://www.genericgames.co.nz/files/MotW_more_weirdness.pdf if you haven’t seen them.

We would also be interested in (in order of desirability) play advice, art, custom moves and other rules variants, and new hunter classes.

If you have ideas for other material, please write up one short sample mystery or other material (up to 500 words) and email it to me at michael.sands@genericgames.co.nz by the 18th of December 2016.