A Song…A Dance…A Fireball In Your Pants

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1. Re #1
   I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.
   Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.
   The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.
   The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?
   Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.
   I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.
   You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.
   An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.
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2. Re #1
   I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.
   Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.
   The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.
   The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?
   Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.
   I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.
   You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.
   An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.
   ::B::

3. Re #1

   I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

   Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

   The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

   The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

   Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

   I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

   You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

   An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

   ::B::

4. Re #1

   I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

   Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

   The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

   The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

   Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

   I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

   You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

   An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

   ::B::

5. Re #1

   I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

   Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

   The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

   The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

   Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

   I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

   You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

   An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

   ::B::

6. Re #1
   I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.
   Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.
   The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.
   The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?
   Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.
   I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.
   You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.
   An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.
   ::B::

7. Re #1

   I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

   Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

   The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

   The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

   Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

   I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

   You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

   An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

   ::B::

8. Re #1

   I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

   Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

   The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

   The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

   Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

   I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

   You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

   An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

   ::B::

9. Re #1

   I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

   Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

   The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

   The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

   Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

   I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

   You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

   An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

   ::B::

10. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

11. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

12. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

13. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

14. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

15. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

16. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

17. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

18. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

19. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

20. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

21. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

22. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

23. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

24. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

25. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

26. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

27. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

28. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

29. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

30. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

31. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

32. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

33. Re #1
    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.
    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.
    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.
    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?
    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.
    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.
    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.
    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.
    ::B::

34. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

35. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

36. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

37. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

38. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

39. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

40. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

41. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

42. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

43. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

44. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

45. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

46. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

47. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

48. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

49. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

50. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

51. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

52. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

53. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

54. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

55. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

56. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

57. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

58. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

59. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

60. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

61. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

62. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

63. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

64. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

65. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

66. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

67. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

68. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

69. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

70. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

71. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

72. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

73. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

74. Re #1

    I’d think real hard again about your desire to make this a pay-as-you-go or subscription role-gaming web-site, Doc.

    Doing it for fun and using it as a means to link with industry and other gaming friends, and perhaps adding in an online tip-jar for donations from visitors is one thing (see http://www.unclebear.com for one example of this), but thinking you may be making serious moola from ongoing subscriptions from visitors is another.

    The hassles about making a web-page, keeping it updated on at least a monthly basis, etc., making sure your content is okay, fire-walling it off from indexing spiders from browsers and scrapers, paying up front your ISP, etc., may not be worth any incoming $ in the long run.

    The closest analogy I can imagine the dead tree version of what you are trying to do is to create a monthly RPG fanzine. Month in, month out, no missing deadlines…will it still be fun or just a chore to get through?

    Gamers are such a notoriously cheap bunch, and the fact that there is so much freebie content out there already from online gaming fora sponsored by gaming companies, indy gaming sites, etc., that I strongly suspect by locking away your materials behind a pay fire-wall will simply ensure that no one will find them nor want to pay for them no matter their value for money.

    I’ve seen so many passionate and highly creative gamers be burned out in the hobby because of being let down that their personal version of the ‘fantasy heart-breaker’ didn’t pan out, I’d hate to see it happen to you too.

    You may wish to put up another on-line poll about this, Doc, to see if I’m talking both out of line and out of my hat.

    An alternative to all this is to simply collate and organize some of your files and make them into a series of PDFs and simply sell them each for a buck or two apiece from DriveThruRPG or RPGNow. Let someone else have the hassles of a web-site (including maintenance, organization, links to PayPal, etc.) and allow you to be creative without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of running yet another gaming website.

    ::B::

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