From: Michael Taylor <MichaelTaylor1@compuserve.com> So will you post this so that we can playtest it also?
Michael,Ahhhh, ummmm, ehhhhh. I have been turning this over in my mind for some time. To be frank I don't think it would be wise. I wouldn't want to post it, at least not in the "post" sense of post. That and I don't know if my feeble heart could handle the criticism. Objectively stated I have become kind of attached to my little baby. On the other side of my mind, I desperately want the acute laser that is the collective mind of the group to bear down on the work and smelt out its impurities. To be equally frank I don't think anyone on the group is a real copyright risk, so posting doesn't bother me in that sense. The level of vigilance in protecting the existing Metagamming copyright has been exemplary. But I have noticed that the contents of the Archives do show up in the search engines so that someone else could come upon it by chance. This puts me in the position of posting it privately, or directly, to individual's e-mail addresses. Of course even that has its risks and also requires some kind of agreement for a Beta Test type arrangement. I wouldn't want to burden everyone with this. The news group, while exciting, is just a hobby. In the entire history of my Internet news group participation I have always found unsolicited commercial posts to be distasteful. Particularly when they were sent to me directly, and especially when they were large. Now for my dark little confession. I have written eleven different roleplaying games. None of them were done well enough. None of the ones I had done before stood out enough to be anything more than a specific campaign, or another game system's suppliment. Anyway I haven't finished it yet.
Let me finish on a positive note. I will achieve my goals. I will get it into gamming shops. I would like to send a hard copy to members of this group, but not until it is in sufficiently collectable format so that it will grow in value.
David Michael Grouchy II
P.S. I wrote a progam for a CD to go with a book. The guy just
E-mailed me that he's getting 20-30 hits a day, got 200 hits after going on
a radio show and plans to go on another. I can now say that I'm published,
even if it is software, and not a book yet.
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