Adventure Journals

Jedi Schrute · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:45 pm Post subject: Adventure Journals

I was thumbing through some of the adventure journals I had recently purchased and am always amazed at some of the unique ideas, settings and characters people come up with for SWRPG. It occurred to me, after I realized the AJs only spanned, I think, 15 editions, that this format shouldn't end. The AJs have provided us with a ton of material that's become everyday use in SWRPG.
I was just wondering if anyone around would be interested in compiling something similiar to an Adventure Journal. I know a lot of you have homebrew species, rules, adventure ideas, characters, etc. I've come up with a few things myself and can edit anything as well. So...what am saying is....who's comin' with me, huh? Who's comin' with me?

Sabre · Lieutenant Joined: 20 Jul 2005 Posts: 80

I'd be interested in receiving this sort of product, but I've seen similar efforts come and go.

The one who managed this would have to be vigilant, single-minded, abundantly available, totally dedicated, and annoying as a squib on stims to chase down contributors and hold them to the fire to produce material, then advertise the final product with the tenacity of an email spammer to every RPG community on the net to round up people still interested in pen&paper RPGs, the Star Wars setting and the D6 system, and the only rewards there would be to look forward to would be potential harassment from the license holders, and the chance to do it all over again for the next issue (which you better deliver on a timely schedule or you'll hemorrhage interest).

I don't mean to discourage this at all, because it was a great idea then and could be great again, but know that you are opening a can of worms that runs so deep it may seem bottomless.

Best of luck.

shnar · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:39 pm Post subject:

The easiest thing I think would be to create a Wiki site that allowed contributors to post their information up in a more organized fashion. Then, you could create a monthly newsletter that highlighted the latest contributions. Would be cool if contributions could be rated too, both along the lines of Useful and Canonical.

Some ideas are going to be waaaay out as far as "canon" is concerned, but still very useful ideas for roleplaying, and if your campaign doesn't mind that, then go with it. Like, I saw a Star Wars:Earth module somewhere (don't remember name), but the idea that the Empire came ot our galaxy in our time, so they had stats for earth guns and equipment, etc. That'd definately go in something like the Adventure Journals, and would fit nicely on a Wiki site, though the canon would be questionable.

-shnar

Ankhanu · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:19 pm Post subject:

hisham · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject:

There was a series of 4 (I think) Star Wars RPG Online Journal produced in pdf around the time AOTC was released. They were made by members of the Holonet Forums with art by SWAG illustrators, albeit these also had d20 stats as well as D6. I wonder if there are copies still online for download.

Edit: Sorry. I believe the second volume was produced as pdfs. When you printed and bound it, it looks awesome in your hands. The first volume was only on the web and was only in D6 IIRC - all long gone by now. I just did a Google search for it. It was created originally in the spirit of WEG's Adventure Journal.
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Xynar · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:07 pm Post subject:

I posted it once before and here it is again.

SW Online Journal
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hisham · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject:

cheshire · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:16 am Post subject:

I like the idea. It'll be hard as an editor. But I've got things I'm willing to contribute. However, the problem is that the main contributors around here are already working on converting two or three WotC books, and finishing a RotS book.

I think that there is a niche for the thing you want to do. Heck, I've even thought about trying to get this going myself. We all do adventures, campaign settings, and things of that sort. It would just take time for people to write it up and submit it.

Art would be hard. I haven't seen any artists around here for a LONG time.

But, still, I like the idea. Would you help with the RotS book until we can get that done? Once we get that done, I'd be more than happy to help you with your idea.
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Jedi Schrute · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject:

I'm stoked there's a lot of interest in the idea. I think Shnar Ankhanu's got a great idea with the wiki style and the newsletter.

I'd be more than happy to help with the RotS book, Cheshire, editing is my specialty, and I can help with anything else too. PM me the details

obidancer · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:59 am Post subject:

shnar · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:07 am Post subject:

Agreed, there are probably a lot of us artists hiding out who would be more than willing to chip in pics they may have...

-shnar

DarthMortis · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:34 am Post subject:

LamontCranston · Cadet Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 17 Location: Australia

Could check deviantart, epilogue.net, and conceptart.org. Plenty people there doing Star Wars/sci-fi art.

Have the 15 issues of the Adventure Journal been put online?

masque · Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject:

LamontCranston · Cadet Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 17 Location: Australia

Yeah same masque. Very strange, even the old Polyhedron magazines that carried Star Wars material are scanned and uploaded.
Schrute and others with copies of the Adventure Journal - would you fellas be willing to scan & upload pdfs to share with the rest?

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