It's almost official: FanCC is dead. Come to the Funerals.

[Turanil]

For those who don't know, the FanCC, (or Fan Community Council) was a community of d20 / D&D 3.x gamers commited to the creation of free d20 supplements. There has been the great ones such as the Netbook of Feats, Netbook of Races, etc. The main idea with them, was to have teams who would review the submissions to help produce stuff that was clear and well balanced, useful and interesting. I have been an active member of several of these netbooks, especially the Netbook of Classes.

However, these two last years, the FanCC was dying from lack of interest. So now it's finished. The FanCC doesn't exist anymore. The only thing I will do, will be of putting a FanCC webpage on my webserver space, to make available for download the:
- Netbook of Feats
- Netbook of Classes
- Netbook of Time
- Netbook of Witches
- Netbook of Books
- Netbook of Chocolate (!! )
- Netbook of Races
- Netbook of Beasts
- Netbook of Diadamon Pantheon
and a few more if I find them.

Lets share here your memories of this defunct brotherhood, and give us our condolences please.

Thanks to all.

 

[BlackMoria]

**Raises a glass in a toast**

To Our Honored Dead!

**Drinks deeply**




Sorry that this worthy project has come to a close.

 

[diaglo]

dances a jig

 

[Truth Seeker]

Damn...that...is bad.

Their stuff has been informative and enlighten.

 

[Mark]

Why don't you turn all of the material over to EN World? It'll be around as long as EN World, it'll get plenty of people seeing it for as long as that, and you won't have to do anything but take the credit to which you are due. It'd be a shame for you to put all of the work so many people have done on a lower traffic area than EN World, and for only those people who follow (even see) sig links to ever come across it again. I assume since there won't be new work that there will be less of a chance to make new news and draw attention to it.

Anyway, best of luck and my virtual condolences to the ending of a widely received labor of love.

 

[eris404]

I'm very sorry to hear that. Those were interesting projects with some good ideas and it's unfortunate that interest in them had waned. Perhaps they might be resurrected at some point in the future?

 

[Turanil]

I will see to upload them on Enworld (after all, there is this new server!!). As for renewed interest in them, I don't think so. At last, I noticed it's easier when a commited person or two work alone on their project and publish it. So maybe more people will produce netbooks, but these will be individual projects, no more what the FanCC was.

 

[der_kluge]

I think the FanCC (and I'm speaking for the entity itself, not the people involved) is a great example of what happens when you take a great, popular concept, and wrap some nice, healthy bureacracy around it. This surprises me very little. I was involved in the FanCC when it was originally founded, and had my own netbook (the now elusive, and greatly non-d20 compliant) of Tinkering there.

A true netbook should be a fan-created work, and should exist outside the boundaries of the d20 license. They tried to put too much structure, keep it all legal, bla bla bla. Nah, to me, a good netbook is 1,237 pages of cleric spells. Those tomes from the 2nd edition era are the greatest fan-created stuff you could ever find. Stupid stuff, and great stuff alike. You can't beat that.

I see all kinds of stupendous stuff posted on here all the time that could make a great netbook, but no one wants to bother with the legalities and approval process, etc, for the FanCC. It stifled the creation, and the submissions, and now it's dead.

 

[HellHound]

"cheers to the FanCC"

My first prestige classes and races were written for the FanCC, but back when it was the D&DCC... and during transition between leaderships, my permission forms were lost, and finally I lost interest and published them myself.

 

[Orius]

I think it's a shame too, the FanCC had some pretty good stuff in their heyday. I can't really say I blame them for trying to keep things all nice and legal though, even if it ended up sinking them.