MircoQuest Adventures for the KS

[Apocalypse_Nerd]

Originally Posted by JLV

What else? Man, we should start a new thread titled "In My Perfect TFT..." to get a list of things that other people would like to see as splat books or player aids!

We already know people want different kinds of combat:

Mass Combat (possibly even with rules for sieges)
Sea Combat (on and under)
Aerial Combat

I'm sure there are a lot of things out there that might be worth considering...

I just wanted to know if the other Micro games for TFT were going to be in the KS. And that’s it I didn’t ask for anything else.

[JLV]

Originally Posted by Apocalypse_Nerd

I just wanted to know if the other Micro games for TFT were going to be in the KS. And that’s it I didn’t ask for anything else.

Understood, but I think we've now moved beyond that -- and it's a perfect opportunity for you to ask for the kinds of future products YOU want to read and play.

Hopefully, your question got answered to your satisfaction?

Originally Posted by Steve Jackson

Good idea! To you I leave the honor of starting the thread.

And...done! ;-)

[guymc]

Speaking of Microquests, my old partner Greg Poehlein is working on an updated version of his Solo Adventure Scrambler. His original program (done back just AFTER I turned in the GrailQuest manuscript, darn it) would let you write the manuscript free form (one numbered paragraph right after another) and the program would parse the text file, scramble the paragraphs, and relink all the paragraph references automatically.

The old version was in a version of BASIC running on Mac that is no longer viable under current system software. He’s planning to recreate it in something more universal. When he finishes it, I’m sure he’ll share it.

[stefanj]

Huh . . . I just posted a Kickstarter comment about my solo adventure paragraph scrambler.


Written in Perl.



(Greg participates in one of the model rocketry forums I haunt!)

[BMonroe]

Regarding rights issues, I'm finding myself thinking about the current shenanigans going on between Victor Miller (writer of the original Friday the 13th movie) and the current rights holders to the series.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/th...t-stake-922911

https://deadentertainment.com/2018/0...-legal-battle/

Notably, there seems to be some sort of copyright provision that after a certain amount of time (35 years?) a freelancer is allowed to re-assert ownership of rights over a freelance project.

Might be something Steve would want to look into?

[stefanj]

Originally Posted by Herne's Son

Might be something Steve would want to look into?

I suspect the strategy that Steve used to the rights back to what he did is the 35 year rule.


Recall, though, that other designers contributed solo adventures to Metagaming. It would be they who would have to do whatever legal widdgery-pokery is required to retrieve the rights.

[JLV]

That's precisely what he did. He reclaimed the rights to the material that HE authored. He has no rights to material that he was not the author of (though, hopefully, some of those other authors will pursue the same goal).

[guymc]

Originally Posted by stefanj

Huh . . . I just posted a Kickstarter comment about my solo adventure paragraph scrambler.

Written in Perl.

(Greg participates in one of the model rocketry forums I haunt!)

He may not have seen it. We’ve been talking about it for weeks. I’d be very interested to see this, if I may. It would be a heck of a boon to Microquest writers.