Sounds like fun. I've been looking for a way to contribute to the EP community, but haven't really had an outlet. I think I'd like to take the opportunity to do just that. I'll have another response posted up sometime later this evening when I have some more details to share. I'm willing to put the effort in to getting folks organized and doing the editing. Depending on whim, I may be able to provide other stuff. I'd like this to be a community endeavor, so reach out and lets get this ball rolling. To start, let me provide everyone that may be interested a place to send all the initial queries. zine at ep.rockpaperschism dot com -Will

Oh I totally agree with Root, crowd sourcing is what's been giving this forum a heart and soul so far! The only reason I stepped forward for some writing is because I have a bit of writing experience when it comes to the RPG industry already and I think the game universe is most definitely worth my time, so I would be ready to devote to it. This should definitely remain a process in the spirit of cyberdemocracy! Actually I was kind of thinking that maybe new things like articles, new asynch powers, new weapons should go through a vetting process that involves the entire community in a way similar to what the Netbook of Feats did in the d20 3.5 era. Basically you have people voting on how balanced and in the spirit of EP the article is and put the rating on the article. So it's like a democratic editing process, everyone gets a voice without anyone getting stifled. So no need to fear Tom the Morph Guy because we would all be him in a way.

root@Fanzine? [hr] Rhyx gave me an idea for the fanzine of including an article about transhumanism or cyberethics in each release. One of the things I love about this site is its active experimentation and exploration of the transhuman elements from the game. For instance, the idea of formalizing a cyberdemocracy for the fanzine not only helps protect the fanzine from itself, it gives us all an opportunity to take part in a real cyberdemocracy. I don't know about other people, but that isn't something I get much experience with in my life off-line. As a side note, I've noticed myself beginning to devalue cash in some situations in my life off-line in favor of reputation. And the fun part? It works startlingly well.

More than happy to help out in editing, fiction, potentially other submittals. There are several sites, can dig out links, to where you can make an online zine like affair. Barring that there is the more traditional convert to pdf method. Otherwise I can check and see what my two co-editors over at www.protodimension.com say and if they agree we can add in EP content to our more Horror and Conspiracy oriented RPG Zine we put out quarterly. Happy to help out TadK

I would be greatly interested in contributing to such a fanzine, I should look into some concepts on short fiction and adventure seeds at some point. But first, I need to get my computer up and running again.. silly machine!

Can you unpack the devalue cash in the offline life statement a bit more? Curious as to some more specifics when and where and how it works

Zine Needs: Everyone who helps with the 'zine is automatically considered a contributor. Editorial Positions Scour Agent The primary task of a content scour is digging through all of the existing and developing material that is available throughout the internet. A scour has two basic responsibilities -Locate the best stuff for use in the 'zine -Provide contact information and content to Scour Alpha Scour Lead The Scour Lead pours through all of the submissions generated by the Scout Agents. Additionally, they are responsible for wrangling all Scour Agents that are currently active. Once the Scour Lead has located content suitable for inclusion in a particular issue, he then solicits the author to get permission for redistribution of that content. Optionally, the Scour Lead can attempt to source original content. Proofer Anyone interested in making sure the message and content of the 'zine remains coherent is encouraged to apply to work as a proofer. They will be responsible for pointing out anything that may have missed the scrutiny of the Lead Editor. Original Content Positions Writer The bulk of the project will consist of writing in some way. In an attempt to further define the possible options for writers, the following sections are available. More available upon discovery. -Crunchy Bits Usually, folks tend to leave the crunchy bits to the end of the list. We can just be honest and say we love new stuff too. Even if it's just a palette shifted gun, a new morph, or new combat mechanics - gear is awesome. Content produced here will be made with every effort that it will fit with the theme and mechanics of the game. We want this stuff to be able to be of use, not just break games. Now, having said that, if we see something just too ridiculously awesome to pass up we may just put it in anyway with some big nasty disclaimer. -Journalism There will be two kinds of journalism presented within the 'zine. The first of course is the out-of-character interviews with people that contribute to the Eclipse Phase setting and details about any upcoming information about the real world that surrounds those that produce Eclipse Phase. Beyond the out-of-character, would be actual in-character journalism pieces presented by In-character reporters. These could be presented for past events or events that have happened in campaigns going on right now. This is one way for eclipse phase players and gamemasters to see their actions shape a larger universe. -Reality Mirror This section deals with finding contemporary non-fiction articles that would be important to the transhumanist future presented in Eclipse Phase. This could run from scientific articles addressing developing technologies to the ethics of transhumanism. -Variance Eclipse Phase is an exceptional setting with a lot of room for growth, but sometimes you just want to have a little fun and see what else the mechanics can be used for. For those of you wanting to pitch ideas for 'Using Eclipse Phase for Firefly' or 'Scanners powers as Psi-Slights', this is the section where you would find those particular articles. -Fiction Ours is a fictional setting. The histories we create for our characters and for our games all fall under this heading. If it hasn't been specifically spelled out ahead of this, it will slide right in here. Character fiction, setting fiction, and all sorts of other fictive details will be provided to help give the world depth, or just provide some talented writers a chance to show of in a Art Contributor A number of different art mediums can be considered valid when attempting to contribute to the project. Primary among these will be original artwork designed for inclusion in the primary document. As time passes, more detail and structure will be available. As I have the time to work with contributors we can get a better idea as to what we need and who we need. At this point, all positions are open and you should feel encouraged to participate. I will repost this somewhere once I get to an alternate physical location. -Will Contribute! zine@ep.rockpaperschism.com

Crunchy bits is RPG business slang for anything rules like and mathematical. Fluff is what is the more story like elements of background and role play. Personally I've always objected to those terms but they turned into industry universals while I wasn't looking :D.

how about "The Eye in the Theme"? BTW, got another recuring section to propose: media inspiration each issue, TV shows, movies, books etc would be examined to see how it could provide inspiration for EP exemple: Nikita's second episode a former Oversight agent unwittingly let a Fall war criminal hypercorp stockholder be kidnapped by some reclaimers terrorists who want the location of a stack of TITANs nanoweapons he hid somewhere.

Be glad to contribute. Other then illustration I can fill in just about anywhere. [U]Titles[/U] Existential Threats I-Rep Proxy Alpha Fork The Sentinel

Wil and I kicked around some ideas over email as well - I've volunteered Darkcast as a platform for publication and accepting article submissions. (Since it too is a Drupal site, we can also do the various reputation, crowd voting, and other such efforts suggested ont he thread as well. :) ) We have a planning forum setup over there so we can start consolidating the conversation into one place: http://www.firewall-darkcast.com/forum/fanzine-what-fanzine-start-here Shall we crosspost the title suggestions over there and start a poll?

+1 Proofer. Credentials are in Sunward. : ) I believe it to be a brilliant idea. Regards, -tF

root@Fanzine? [hr] What would a DIY section look like in a Posthuman publication?

root@Fanzine? [hr] And a cryptography puzzle section.

I am glad to contribute! I can do fiction, adventures, crunchy bits, layout, and editing.

If we do go with The Eye, perhaps we can keep on the FIREWALL theme and name each section after one of the Factions of FIREWALL that are discussed in the Core rulebook? Have each release be written in such a way that it might be a document released to Sentinals. Not canon, but in character. The Editorial staff would be the Proxies, contributors the Sentinals. That would be the Crows, the Erasure Squads, the Routers, the Scanners, the Social Engineers, and the Vectors. The Crows are dedicated to information gathering surrounding the interests of FIREWALL, so that could be used as a section for any particularly interesting Transhuman discussions in general. Topics that are relevant to the here and now, basically the stuff that right now goes on in the Five for the Future blog posts and the more Transhuman related OffTopic section of these forums. Could be framed as recovered data from the early 21st century, stuff from the Archives that would give a Sentinal frame of referance for their history. The Erasure Squads are the big guns of FIREWALL, so maybe we stick Game Information here. New Morphs, Equipment, Implants. That sort of thing. It would be fairly easy to frame everything here as in character. The Routers are the mission planners of FIREWALL, so any contributor written scenarios, mission hooks, that sort of thing could go in here. This might be a little bit more difficult to frame in character, but perhaps we could try and editorialise it so that it comes in the form of news reports and the like, with added commentary from members of Firewall, similar to the way Shadowrun handles shadowtalk. The Scanners are a bit more difficult. Kind of an overlap with the Crows in their mission. Social Engineers are the... well, social engineers of FIREWALL, so discussions on basic stuff about the canon could go in here. How people have kids, different peoples take on Uplifts/AGIs. Soft Game Information type stuff, like new Habitats and Exoplanets, descriptions of people in power, that sort of thing. Vectors again are a bit difficult, as the information specialists of Firewall they do not really fit in very well. They are mentioned to be the overwatch of Firewall, so perhaps a Q&A type section? Have a question, send it in and we have a panel of people have a talk about it. Any ideas?

Quincey Forder wrote:

that sounds nifty, but for GM like me who want to keep a certain level of secrecy about Firewall, that might be a bit spoilers rich, and hint the players who can read between the lines of what's going on.

As long as we keep to the information that would be publicly released to your average Sentinel (i.e keeping stuff that is in the GM section on the down low. No mentioning the I imagine we would be fine. Or are you meaning spoiler rich in some other way?

As far as frequency, I'm not sure if we're looking at Quarterly or Monthly, but I'm fairly certain those are the two options. There's more focus on getting content and layout first, once we have some stuff to actually put into it, I'm sure we'll figure out how often to push it out. In regards to volunteers, there's a lot more activity over at Darkcast, including the preliminary submission system if you want to write for the fanzine.

Could volunteers repost their information on this thread please? http://www.firewall-darkcast.com/forum/volunteer-introductions We're trying to make some sense out of the chaos and need to centralize a list of everyone we have available to work on the project. Also - if you're ready to get started asap hit these links: [url]http://www.firewall-darkcast.com/node/add/fanzine-article[/url] [url]http://www.firewall-darkcast.com/fanzine/your_articles[/url] [url]http://www.firewall-darkcast.com/fanzine/volunteer-help[/url] As for frequency - I'm thinking Quarterly is going to be our best bet to start with. Then if we're getting enough articles regularly enough we can do extra issues from there. :) Further planning for regular Columns and the like is ongoing at Darkcast right now.

Taking a look at the calendar, if we're going to hit a Qrt1, 2011 date - aka January - we're going to need to have articles in our hands by December 1st to give editors and layout a chance to process them. So to all yon writers out there, now you know!

I don't really see a reason to limit # of articles per author - if we're short enough on articles to end up with an issue written almost entirely by the same person, then we have other problems ;) If you check the volunteer thread on Darkcast there may be someone who's an artist on there but I honestly don't recall off the top of my head. Maybe an open call over there and see if anyone's lurking?

Layout planning is now in progress at: http://www.firewall-darkcast.com/forum/layout-planning

I think we've found one now. ;) Welcome aboard - get thee to the Darkcast forums so we can start hashing out the details. :)