Phoenix Lore Magazine

[Vrecknidj]

Everyone,

Some of you know me as a university teacher, others know me as a high school teacher, others as a tutor. Most of you probably know me just through my posts here.

Some of you know (I would wager most don't) that I'm also an editor, writer, and content manager in the Role-Playing Game industry.

So, since this is the Fun forum, I decided to post about something I do for fun. In the RPG industry, my two current BIG PROJECTS are with Rite Publishing and Crystal Unicorn Enterprises.

Of the two, the latter has recently published its premiere issue of Phoenix Lore magazine. If you have any interest at all in games (mostly role-playing, but, honestly, any at all), I encourage you to give it a look. Ultimately, we're a magazine by gamers, for gamers. I'm the content manager, and we're always looking for new blood. We give unpublished writers and illustrators a place to get started. That's what we're all about.

Anyway, I'd really like to get some feedback, both here and over on the Phoenix Lore forums.

So, fellow gamers, please check it out. And, non-gamers, if you dare, take a peek, and give me your honest opinion.

Dave

 

[loveofreason]

Thanks for sharing Dave!

I can't read the magazine from this computer. Hopefully later. I'd like to know more about what it is you actually do (never having being exposed to such a thing as the Role-Playing Game industry).

 

[Vrecknidj]

The most famous of these games is Dungeons and Dragons, wildly popular in the United States from the end of the 1970s until today (with a few lulls). There are several such games, each somewhat like a cross between participatory theater and brainstorming with a bunch of writers.

There are other games discussed in Phoenix Lore, but, my own emphasis therein is RPGs.

Dave

 

[loveofreason]

I had brief flirtations twenty years ago with Talisman and Warhammer. Where do they sit in the game landscape?

So you devote time to dreaming up worlds and characters and rules and sharing them with others? Who has intellectual ownership of what you do? I guess I'm asking what gives someone's idea credence or legitimacy - are the companies you mention making money out of people's ideas? Are people making careers out of their ideas? Who gets paid?

'scuse ignorance - I've a lot of misspent years between being carefree and now.

And sorry, this is a fun thread and I'm grilling you with serious questions.

Yay for your work on the magazine - looks great!

(If in doubt, put boobs, err... babes on the cover. Works every time. Yep. )

 

[Perseus]

My character is a Phoenix XNXP from Neptune and I also edit journals, or did and now it is web sites.