Philippe's idea about a Praxpak

From: RuneMaster.Greg <prax_at_chello.fr>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 20:01:56 +0200


Philippe wrote :
> There seems to be quite a lot of goodwill floating around for Prax,
> which is not at the current time in the line of Issaries production.
On
> the other hand it seems that good propositions are always welcome.
So
> I'm going to make one (and I'm sure that Greg(ory) [to distinguish
him
> from Greg Stafford] will second me here).

I think that I will...
>
> Prax is one of the most described region of Glorantha, if fan
> publications are included. I am sure that all the people which have
been
> playing in it don't want a lot of major changes to occur for the
switch
> to Hero Wars.

That's IMHA right, speaking for exemple about Urox / SB (and pehaps because my first PC was a SB Bison praxian initate in the service of Raus), I think that in my future HW campaign, SB will never be a great spirit. I like him as a god because he had always be a god.

>
> So I think that we should start by listing all the Prax material
> available, down to the smallest article in Fan publication. This
could
> be put on a web page somewhere (Greg(ory) ?). Once that list has
been
> established, it would allow us to do a great number of intelligent
(:-)
> things (which could be spread among a number of people) :

I've already begun a listing of all articles in all magazines, zines and prozines that I have in my bookcases. It will not be difficult to me when this work will be done to list all the praxian articles. And after that and as I'm completing this collection each day, it will be easy to complete this list.
We must not forgot to include the contributions that we could find on the net.

>
> 1) Decide which are interesting to include in a possible PraxPack
> (possibly by vote on the aforementioned Web Site)

>
> 2) Contact the authors / owners of the interesting bits to know if
they
> would allow re-publication (possibly after change)
>
> 3) On all that "re-used" material, ask Greg (Stafford this time) if
> anything collides with his uber-arcs
>
> 4) If authorisation is given, convert / upgrade it to Hero Wars
>
> 5) If authorisation is _not_ given, start rewriting hat is
interesting
>
> 6) Get Greg to provide his uber-arcs (it might be easier once he has
> some basis on which to talk)
>
> 7) Identify the areas where information is lacking and start working
on
> these based on Hero Wars
>
> 8) identify all the possible improvements, and start working on
these
> based on Hero Wars
>
> We now have a complete table of contents for a PraxPak...

It seems that it will be a very big book. We will had to speak about the form it will take. If you take a look at all that was published. I think that we could perhaps think about the table of content before. We had to know if we want a book / pak like Genertela (a lot of short articles) or like the book of drastic resolutions Prax (a book with specialized articles). Will this work include the wastelands, the sun county, Pavis, the rubble, and so on ?

When this is done, if Issaries doesn't want to publish it, will we pubblish it by ourself ?

This doesn't seem to be simple, but I'm ready to work on this idea.

First, I will complete my listing of gloranthian sources, but you could send me links about praxian material (on the net) in this format :

Link,
Name of the article,
content of the article,
author(s) and source(s) of the article.

This for each article on your web site. I will put all of these infos on my web site as soon as possible.

To send these info, use my address, with the subject : praxian web articles compendium.
my address is : prax_at_chello.fr

Cheers,

Gregory

PS : Don't forgot our HW scenario contest on my webpage... - -------------
prax_at_chello.fr
http://pavis.free.fr/prax


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