Publishing T&T without "that company"

IN fact, though, I was wrong, as I was just able to open a lulu account and upload a frankenstein of cobbled notes (to make a document of minimum size... there's got to be a way around that for ebooks...) and put it up for "sale" for free as a pdf and I didn't have to have paypal. OK. Hmmmm...

Good idea, nonetheless, yeah. Especially with all the dirt going down, just to be on the pleasant side of communication.

I've wondered why more folks haven't done this for T&T.

Main problems standing in the way and the things that make it different than the D&D fan material are as follows:
First, there's a lot more fans of AD&D1E and Classic and Original D&D.

(A)D&D is much more familiar and thus, it's easier to publish something homemade and have someone 'get' exactly what it's for if you present it in a generic way to skirt legal problems. What I mean is, every D&D fan would know what you meant if you wrote: "Hits to kill-27"

Also, thanks to the retro-clones, it's a lot easier to write and publish stuff for your choice of flavor of D&D with no worries that anyone will not know what it is and also no worries of accidentally (or otherwise) doing something in an illegal or shady manner.

Also, because of the retro-clones, there's a little bit more...modern feeling to them. They seem more vital and alive, because they are. All of this breeds excitement and that in turn fuels the creativity and, before you know it, there are dozens of Swords & Wizardry and Labyrinth Lord-centric blogs (and there are) and lots of products, free and otherwise.


All that said, I still think folks should make the move to self-publish their T&T stuff. "that company" was great support, but it wasn't needed.
If Rick allows great leeway for the fan-published stuff, then aces. If it needs to be a one-on-one thing each and every product for each and every potential publisher, and/or the game goes out of print, etc., then we definitely need the/a clone.

Each person could have their own Lulu store and still it could be centralized. A lot of the old-school renaissance guys are on the same 'circuit'... err... what I mean is this:
stores.lulu.com/oldschoolren
So, see? They all have their own fronts and company names, blah, blah, blah... but they're centralized, if they wish, under the Old School Renaissance Publishing Group storefront as well.

That would be a cool thing to see for T&T, machfront. But for some reason, I think it won't happen for T&T.

Thanks for digging out that storefront on Lulu I was thinking of, Machfront.

See that's how we can do it. No need to be negative jongjungbu. I know there are people here who write stuff, and then we only need to get together. I'm pretty sure we could do a fanzine like Hobbit Hole if we pooled our resources. If not for any other reason than to show that T&T fandom is more than one crooked fan publisher!

I have already started to talk to Ken about POD and will talk to Rick in a while as well.

Good! Knowing what obstacles there are is a good ides. Have an exalt for pushing forward on this. I know I'm to work on the material I have extra hard in the next few months so I have something to contribute.

-Mike