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<blockquote data-quote="dougmander" data-source="post: 3614554" data-attributes="member: 14375">Here's one DM's story of getting a homebrew into publishable shape:I started putting PDFs of what would eventually become Northern Crown on the web for free as early as 1998 or so.&nbsp; Writing up my homebrew to share it with other DMs forced me to maintain a certain standard of clarity and consistency that I could have handwaved past if I'm was just winging it with my own gaming group. I thought I was done at that point. But I later found that &quot;written up&quot; is a long way from &quot;publishable&quot; when I started working with a real editor (shout-out to Michelle, yeah!). That was a two-year, painstaking process, and I still got some of the monster and NPC stats wrong (skill points, BAB, that sort of thing). So I guess my point is that moving the ball downfield that last ten yards from written-up to publishable was pretty taxing and not something I'd care to do again anytime soon.For my own D&amp;D homebrew (World of Generica), it's more fun to wing it off of hastily written notes and maps in a coffee-stained notebook. Been running the campaign for over ten years and it's still pretty sketchy, meaning flexible. Publishing something, on the other hand, is like sticking a butterfly to board -- pretty, but static.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dougmander, post: 3614554, member: 14375"] Here's one DM's story of getting a homebrew into publishable shape: I started putting PDFs of what would eventually become [i]Northern Crown[/i] on the web for free as early as 1998 or so. Writing up my homebrew to share it with other DMs forced me to maintain a certain standard of clarity and consistency that I could have handwaved past if I'm was just winging it with my own gaming group. I thought I was done at that point. But I later found that "written up" is a long way from "publishable" when I started working with a real editor (shout-out to Michelle, yeah!). That was a two-year, painstaking process, and I still got some of the monster and NPC stats wrong (skill points, BAB, that sort of thing). So I guess my point is that moving the ball downfield that last ten yards from written-up to publishable was pretty taxing and not something I'd care to do again anytime soon. For my own D&D homebrew (World of Generica), it's more fun to wing it off of hastily written notes and maps in a coffee-stained notebook. Been running the campaign for over ten years and it's still pretty sketchy, meaning flexible. Publishing something, on the other hand, is like sticking a butterfly to board -- pretty, but static. [/QUOTE]

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