Sunday, October 7, 2007

The Hero's Chronicle Issue 1

It's on the shelves... er, um, I mean, it's available for free download. Get it HERE.

A few notes on this issue:

1-I have no artist and I am no artist. I am looking for one, but the pay won't be that great. If you are looking for a place to get started, I'd be happy to give your art a try. Until then, I use clip art from my publisher's program.

2-I may move this and my version of Dungeon Squad over to Lulu at some point. I haven't yet as I am monitoring downloads of the Basic Charts Edition of Heroes of the Dungeon Crawl and don't want other downloads there. If bandwidth becomes at issue, I may have to.

3-This issue looks at the early history of Heroes of the Dungeon Crawl and adjustments I made, why I did some of the things I did, the first test session of the game, some posts from the Dragonsfoot thread that led to Labyrinth Lord being announced and the Gary Gygax-Dave Arneson debate.

4-There is nothing in the book that you can find by weeding through the blog. The reason I am doing this it for an easier reference to the HotDC creative process for those coming late to this project.

I don't claim to be doing anything revolutionary. I'm just a guy trying to put a basic game together and trying to offer something to the hobby for those who feel the way I do. The Hero's Chronicle will feature blog posts in its early run, but original material will appear as well. Eventually, it will contain mainly original material.

5-Anybody wanting to get published is welcome to submit material. I am covering mainly basic type games like HotDC, Labyrinth Lord, Dungeon Squad, Tunnels & Trolls and games of that nature. I believe the big boys of gaming have their stuff covered, but I may include stuff occasionally if I find it relevent.

Anyway, I hope you can gain at least a little insight into HotDC through this issue.

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