The OR Online Magazine !!! Mods etc. plz look

Raggbur · **Posted:** Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:06 pm

Invocation, The Belower, The Word of Hashut; all are online magazines by hobby communities.
So, you get where I'm up to. My idea is to create an One Ring online magazine!
Every issue will appear per season, and will include hobby articles, scenario's, unit analyses, maybe even a kinda 'ask aunty x'!
Would annyone be intrested to help ? And (I'm mostly looking to the moderaters now), would this be possible ?

Ideas, comments or answerds; wat do you think ?

Thanks in Advance
Raggbur

Ps: if it will go through, a name will be needed; my idea was to call it the 'Morgul Post', but maybe there are better ideas ?

garmenhord · **Posted:** Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:42 pm

Might be good idea, but on the other hand it would take lots of work and If i am not wrong the site is not completly fixed yet.

agincourt777 · **Joined:** Sun Mar 07, 2010 3:27 pm **Posts:** 192

What garmenhord said.
Only problem I can think of is that many of those points are brought up in normal threads eg. unit analysis- 'continuous tactical discussions', scenarios 'campaigns scenarios and battle reports' etc.

It would still be pretty cool if it happened though.

Raggbur · **Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:06 am

Well, you're right about the forums, but IMO, those are for asking questions and gain feedback, and not for article-like purposes.
and @ garmenhord: it wouldn't start right now ofcourse, the first issue would be around the beginning of winter/spring.
And what do you mean about 'to much work' ?

Ranger of Gondor · **Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:09 pm

What he means is that a good magazine takes a lot of time and work to produce... you need editors, article writers, people to "make it look good", etc...

I'm all for it, although I doubt that contribution-wise I would be able to do much with my packed schedule.

An idea would be that articles posted on the site between two issues would be put in the following one...

Good luck (:

Raggbur · **Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:20 pm

Well, I don't want to be... Well, I'm already building on a design, and I've got some articles ready for posting.

General Elessar · **Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:23 pm

I think it's a great idea.

Raggbur · **Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:38 pm

What do you think of this design (done myself) ?
http://issuu.com/raggbur/docs/morgulpos ... esentation

Ranger of Gondor · **Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:07 pm

Very nice! The Mordor sign is a little blurred, but that's just me being picky x)

General Elessar · **Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:15 pm

It's good, but I'd put the One Ring emblem on it somewhere.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:34 pm

Good design. Yeah I indeed mean that it's a time taking thing making a decent magazine and a good team. It would be hard to do it all alone. And of course u need active people helping to make it, so that it wouldn't die out because of lack of article writers. But u seem very motivated

This might go well. Good luck with it. I don't got much time so - it might be hard to help out for me. But i would totally like the idea of a cartoon or a comic stroke in each magazine. Maybe own made covers? hehe just suggesting. Might draw something if u want and i got the time. Looking forward to the first isue

Drumstick · **Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:05 pm

Sounds like a great idea in my opinion. You'd have to appoint some mangers to this, for Dagerlad & other mods are very busy these days. So it'll be up to some of the members. You could have people entering articles on how to paint/convert/make some things. Have a gallery as well where all the issues would be stored. I agree something with the OR emblem somewhere. I'm up for helping when the time comes that we start it.

Drum

Raggbur · **Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:28 pm

Alright, I'm still waiting for a mod reply, but here's my thought of the contents:

* Well, everyone can ask Sauron questions about their own middle earthish life, or about what's happening @ the Barad-Dur
** See it like all good and evil armies gain the new MM reinforcements
*** Hobby Articles related to this will be mixed in here to; I've already found something great for the first issue
**** If there are more then 1 article submitted, the xtra one(s) will appear somewhere else.

So, what do you think ?

garmenhord · **Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:33 pm

good start, it sounds promising
nice titels

Legolas6 · **Joined:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:48 pm **Posts:** 24

Really good idea! :yay:

I am interested in helping with it, provided that I have enough time.
I thinks that the article writers/editors should be in touch via Msn/skype/or whatever.

Drumstick · **Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:36 pm

Raggbur wrote:

Alright, I'm still waiting for a mod reply, but here's my thought of the contents:

* Well, everyone can ask Sauron questions about their own middle earthish life, or about what's happening @ the Barad-Dur
** See it like all good and evil armies gain the new MM reinforcements
*** Hobby Articles related to this will be mixed in here to; I've already found something great for the first issue
**** If there are more then 1 article submitted, the xtra one(s) will appear somewhere else.

So, what do you think ?

Terrain article somewhere?

Raggbur · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 7:11 am

Oh... Forgotten

General Elessar · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 7:00 pm

I think maybe you're putting too much stuff into one issue. You should probably stretch it out a little so you've always got enough for later issues. Maybe combine some of the sections together?

garmenhord · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 7:03 pm

Perhaps it's not bad to have more sections , - but publish the articles in parts... so that u will be watching out for the following issue

U know like a tv soap ; making u want to watch the next episode ( step of painting guide here for ex-)

General Elessar · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 7:18 pm

garmenhord wrote:

Perhaps it's not bad to have more sections , - but publish the articles in parts... so that u will be watching out for the following issue

U know like a tv soap ; making u want to watch the next episode ( step of painting guide here for ex-)

Yes, that would work. What I was worried about was having really bad articles just to fill up the various sections; I'd rather have less but better articles.

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