Homebrewers: How Publishable is Your Brew?

[Nifft]

It could be published, though who (other than me) would get excited about things like gelatinous bears, rivers of chocolate, etc. It's like Candy Land but lethal.

Throw in some Elder Evils and I'm there. Sounds like a perfect one-shot!

Cheers, -- N

PS: "Choco-thulhu!"

 

[jdrakeh]

Throw in some Elder Evils and I'm there. Sounds like a perfect one-shot!

Cheers, -- N

PS: "Choco-thulhu!"

Well, actually, the whole place is located in a pocket dimension. It was originally created as a fun, happy, place by a mage with a sweet tooth -- but some of his creations (unknown to him) became sentient. Then they overthrew the realm. Now the mage is trapped by his own creations in a land of candy madness.

 

[Geoff Dale]

My publishing days were back in 1E, though I'm working on 3E updates now (next year?).

My current home campaign could be published since there are no copyright bombs; nothing in it was taken from any copyrighted source except for a small number (6 to 9) of 1E monsters, and none of them have made it into any of the dungeons I've written. The home rules are extensive (5 vols, 2k+ pages), there is much history and time lines, genealogy, lists of major NPC's, geography and maps. It would be a ton of work to clean all this up, spell check, edit, reformat, and make it look pretty for a printer. Not to mention the question of whether the world really needs another throwback 1E-ish kind of game system...

Geoff

 

[The Green Adam]

-Sigh- :\

This might sound silly but I think my homebrew is very publishable...but the thing is...

A) I didn't create it completely on my own. A good bit of it was inspired by and co-created by my ex-wife. We're still friends and there's no real problem in us working together on such a project but...

B) We're too attached to it. While I think it would make a great product, I don't know that anything less then a hardcover and several expansion books would ever do it justice. lol

I remember when WotC did it's Eberron birthing setting search. I was going to send in my campaign world and my ex said, "Maybe we should send in our second best idea."

 

[Roadkill101]

Another GM could use my stuff with tweaking. I may be in trouble for some copyright or IP, but I try my damndest to just come up with my own names based on someone elses idea, but add enough changes that it's now mine.
I spend a lot of free time at work writing everything up, once I'm done lurking here for a couple hours (my job is reactionary in nature, I do a lot of sitting waiting for something to happen where I have to perform my job).
Though to be honest I'm not working on a home-brew campaign world, so much as a system I've designed for myself (trying to keep any fluff out of it except as part of an explanation or example). And plan to print and hand out to the friends I game with. I do have alot of stuff pertaining to my campaign world, but it's becoming dated and could use some updating and revision.
What I could really use right now is not so much a publisher but a decent editor.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

And that's the boat I'm sailing, too.

Eric & Raven & I are all on the same boat.

 

[Mafro]

Hey guys and gals, thanks for the great data and all those comments about your homebrews. I'll be PMing a number of you....

Cheers!

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Urbis is intended to be published eventually, but it isn't quite finished yet...

 

[BiggusGeekus]

In the TRUEST sense of the word, it could be published, but the questions is, would anyone want to purchase it? .

That's the heart of the matter isn't it?

Look at it this way, you might win critical acclaim.

 

[Vague Jayhawk]

My stories are good and my characters are memorable.

However, all of my maps are completely ripped off from various published materials.