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<blockquote data-quote="Radiating Gnome" data-source="post: 883929" data-attributes="member: 150">All right, now I know that you don't need yet another goober to get on and tell you how great this story hour is, but you're getting one away.&nbsp; Good lord, man, this is something else.&nbsp; I discovered it last week, just before a business trip, and then spent a couple of hours converting the thread to text files and dumping them onto my PDA so I could take them on the trip with me.&nbsp; Now I'm back in town, I'ver read the whole thing, and I'm another one of the list of many who realize just how inadequate our own story hours are.&nbsp; Like I needed a lot more self-doubt in my life. Thanks a lot.There has been a lot of talk on here about turning this into a novel -- and I think that the talk is well deserved -- this SH is compelling and provocative, on both a gaming and personal level.&nbsp; HOWEVER . . . I can see some big challenges in trying to make that work.&nbsp; It would take a LOT of work to hammer this into a format that would work as a stand-alone novel.&nbsp; There is a lot that the SH readers bring to the table that would have to be explained to regular readers -- and the metaspell jargon would be one of the first things that an editor will try to cut, as much as it adds to my appreciation of the SH.&nbsp; SO . . . There is another idea.&nbsp; RPGNOW.&nbsp; I know that I would gladly pay a few dollars for the whole Wyre story in PDF format.&nbsp; And it's something I would be recommending to other players as well.&nbsp; And there are other SH threads that would also make great candidates for this sort of treatment.&nbsp; It could make an interesting series.&nbsp; That would allow the SH to be published in a way that would allow it to maintain it's integrity as the story of a D&amp;D game, rather than force it into a form reworked for public consumption.&nbsp; It's not the road to riches, but it's a path, and it's a start.&nbsp; Think about it.&nbsp; A PDF version, maybe one for each main storyline, with an appendix that included templates and other campaign specific information that has been presented in these forums.&nbsp; It would be a great resource, and each installment would be well worth a couple of dollars here and there.&nbsp; Anyway, it's just a thought.-rg</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Radiating Gnome, post: 883929, member: 150"] All right, now I know that you don't need yet another goober to get on and tell you how great this story hour is, but you're getting one away. Good lord, man, this is something else. I discovered it last week, just before a business trip, and then spent a couple of hours converting the thread to text files and dumping them onto my PDA so I could take them on the trip with me. Now I'm back in town, I'ver read the whole thing, and I'm another one of the list of many who realize just how inadequate our own story hours are. Like I needed a lot more self-doubt in my life. Thanks a lot. There has been a lot of talk on here about turning this into a novel -- and I think that the talk is well deserved -- this SH is compelling and provocative, on both a gaming and personal level. HOWEVER . . . I can see some big challenges in trying to make that work. It would take a LOT of work to hammer this into a format that would work as a stand-alone novel. There is a lot that the SH readers bring to the table that would have to be explained to regular readers -- and the metaspell jargon would be one of the first things that an editor will try to cut, as much as it adds to my appreciation of the SH. SO . . . There is another idea. RPGNOW. I know that I would gladly pay a few dollars for the whole Wyre story in PDF format. And it's something I would be recommending to other players as well. And there are other SH threads that would also make great candidates for this sort of treatment. It could make an interesting series. That would allow the SH to be published in a way that would allow it to maintain it's integrity as the story of a D&D game, rather than force it into a form reworked for public consumption. It's not the road to riches, but it's a path, and it's a start. Think about it. A PDF version, maybe one for each main storyline, with an appendix that included templates and other campaign specific information that has been presented in these forums. It would be a great resource, and each installment would be well worth a couple of dollars here and there. Anyway, it's just a thought. -rg [/QUOTE]

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