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<blockquote data-quote="Sakzilla" data-source="post: 479369" data-attributes="member: 6105">get it goingTwo thoughts from me...1) I'd like some feedback on Weodegil - take off the gloves and let me know what you thought.&nbsp; Was he dull?&nbsp; Boring?&nbsp; Not flexible enough?&nbsp; not fleshed out enough?2)To get interest going again on the site, what if we started a concerted effort to &quot;produce&quot; material on a regular basis.&nbsp; By this I mean we set out to detail a previously un-mapped area of ME and tie it in with the established canon on Tolkien.Someone just asked about the Blue Wizards in an email - where did they go?&nbsp; The &quot;tolkien&quot; answer is to the east, and we don't hear about them again.&nbsp; Sounds to me like a plot hook!&nbsp; We can get an effort going to fictionally detail their travels and exploits going back to III 1000 when they arrived.&nbsp; And other people can take the locations and NPCs/events and flesh them out.&nbsp; Meanwhile we are putting out a newsletter or something that follows the progress.&nbsp; Soon we'll have villages, a city or two, tribes of baddies, and a bunch of living, breathing NPCs to run a campaign with.&nbsp; We can post journals of playtesting.&nbsp; Anything.At the same time, we can leverage the MERP products and Tolkien resources that are out there to develop fresh gaming hooks and ideas for the existing world.&nbsp; We put out the newsletter format such as:1 - Fun hook of the month2 - first age town, NPC, or original adventure hook3 - second age town, NPC, or original adventure hook4 - third age town, NPC, or original adventure hook5 - this months fictional excerpt on the travels of the blue wizzies6 - the original content based on the fiction (that would have been written the month before to give the creators time)We do something like this, and there is room for writers, creative GMs, and tolkien fans from all three ages.&nbsp; And as a bonus we can always throw in something from the fourth age, though there is little canon to guide the efforts there.I think it would be fun and very challenging.Ron</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sakzilla, post: 479369, member: 6105"] [b]get it going[/b] Two thoughts from me... 1) I'd like some feedback on Weodegil - take off the gloves and let me know what you thought. Was he dull? Boring? Not flexible enough? not fleshed out enough? 2)To get interest going again on the site, what if we started a concerted effort to "produce" material on a regular basis. By this I mean we set out to detail a previously un-mapped area of ME and tie it in with the established canon on Tolkien. Someone just asked about the Blue Wizards in an email - where did they go? The "tolkien" answer is to the east, and we don't hear about them again. Sounds to me like a plot hook! We can get an effort going to fictionally detail their travels and exploits going back to III 1000 when they arrived. And other people can take the locations and NPCs/events and flesh them out. Meanwhile we are putting out a newsletter or something that follows the progress. Soon we'll have villages, a city or two, tribes of baddies, and a bunch of living, breathing NPCs to run a campaign with. We can post journals of playtesting. Anything. At the same time, we can leverage the MERP products and Tolkien resources that are out there to develop fresh gaming hooks and ideas for the existing world. We put out the newsletter format such as: 1 - Fun hook of the month 2 - first age town, NPC, or original adventure hook 3 - second age town, NPC, or original adventure hook 4 - third age town, NPC, or original adventure hook 5 - this months fictional excerpt on the travels of the blue wizzies 6 - the original content based on the fiction (that would have been written the month before to give the creators time) We do something like this, and there is room for writers, creative GMs, and tolkien fans from all three ages. And as a bonus we can always throw in something from the fourth age, though there is little canon to guide the efforts there. I think it would be fun and very challenging. Ron [/QUOTE]

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