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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bombastus" data-source="post: 346887" data-attributes="member: 5494">Another idea for settingsHiya!I originally had the idea that Better World Roleplaying would put out a setting once a year as a fundraiser.  It would be a great way to debut an artist or two and get lot's o' volunteers to collaborate in writing, editing, illustration, layout etc..  My thought was that one day industry pros would unite with industry newbies to do a setting project once every few years, thus giving new people some enlightenment and the experts a chance to teach what they know.It would be awesome to see an annual setting put out by the RPG community.   I LOVE the idea of doing a setting search every year and then publishing the top 3-5 settings.  This is something I always wanted to do through BWR and I spent a lot of time working on how to do a massive collaborative world creation project and keep it organized and free of legal BS AND open content.  So heres a suggestion for how to do this and get it out and high quality with in two years.  (The program would be annual, however, it would take two years to get the first one out.  So after that a new one would be released every year at Gen Con, for example).Steps:1.  Take 1-page setting proposals from anyone and have a panel of experts in the RPG community select the top 3-5.2.  Form a charitable nonprofit organization to act as the "owner" of all copyrights, illustrations, products, etc... (This was my original plan for BWR until I failed to communicate why this was the ideal way to do an open game community world creation project, however, it looks like it's time to bring this up again).  3.  Give the top 3-5 winners a private discussion list and allow them to recruit as many volunteers from the RPG community as they want or need to include: editors, artists, writers, playtesters, etc....  The winner is completely in charge of how their setting is developed after they receive guidelines from the "board" or the "producer" or the committee.. whatever...of the project.  (For example, the top winner might need 34 pages of content and 30 illustrations and the third place winner might just need 10 pages and 7 illustrations.)4.  Have all volunteers agree that their work is property of the nonprofit organization.  This way if someone quits mid-project then all is not lost for the others.  It also makes it easier to release ONE document under the OGL.    Before you get upset abut this please read on.  ALSO make the volunteers who agree to make their work property of the organization ALSO membership of the organization WITH voting privileges.  AND make the board of trustees have it in their bylaws that they are elected by the membership and have a limited term AND do not ever receive pay for their jobs.  NOTE: it would help if the board was made up of industry professionals.5.  Once all of the projects are in and fine tuned, the board of directors uses the membership fees to pay for the cost of printing the work.  All proceeds from sales of the book go into other charitable aspects of the organization.  (In BWR's case that would be its scholarship and grant programs).  Experts get to contribute their skills for nonprofit work.  Newbies learn from experts.  Money goes into charity.  The work becomes Open Content.  Life is good.  Everyone's happy.6.  Do it all over again.BWR is already established as a 501c3 charity.  We already have writer's contracts drafted. We already have a bank account. We could DO this NOW if more people would give it a chance.   The structure is here.  BWR is ready.  For what it's worth I would be totally willing to take a back seat to Morrus and lend him whatever support BWR could give to the effort.   Think about it!!!Maggie</blockquote>

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