Greetings,
I've been mulling over a little venture to potentially generate a small additional income and I'd really appreciate it if you fine folks could give me your tuppence worth of thoughts (or your ten cents depending on geographical location!) and feedback.
The idea is to produce a series of RPG adventures/scenarios which would be ready-made whilst being non-rules specific. Content such as traps/encounters etc which require some form of stats for any given system will be accompanied by the author's guidelines as to challenge/difficulty level and left up to the end user GM to customise as needed.
I'll summarise the key elements that I have planned for the packs:
The focus will very much be on creating a strong and compelling NARRATIVE. Although there will be dungeons and other traditional settings included, the plan is to avoid two dimensional crawls. This approach can be especially time consuming for those GM's writing their own material. Each adventure will have a consistent and fluid writing style, aiming toward real literary merit whilst still remaining appropriate for the genre.
All packs will be made available as PDF's and will contain all the illustrated maps, floorplans, player handouts, etc required.
Some adventures will operate as one-off stand alone packs, whilst others will form part of a larger connected story campaign.
Initially the setting will be a generic fantasy one, easily inserted into any existing game world. If the interest is there, a number of different gam environments will be developed (e.g. Hard Sci-fi, Space opera, Wild West, Modern horror, historical etc).
Packs will be available via download and priced extremely cheaply, I'm looking at around $2.50 USD, £1.50 GBP – slightly more for longer works.
A free beginning adventure will be made available for folks to try out the writing style and format to see if they are use to them before parting with any cash.
OK, well that's the outline anyway. Please do let me know of you think there would be a market and a decent level of interest in such a product. I'm not expecting to retire a wealthy man through this project, I simply enjoy writing and although I don't really have the time/gaming group to get games in myself these days, it would be lovely to earn a little extra whilst indulging my creative urges!
Many thanks,
Mark
damnrightigottheblues at googlemail.com