ashmire13 wrote:......
Acaeum Members Guild
Pages from the Ages

I like both of those.
In the order shown in this post.

Perhaps AGN:  Acaeum Guild Newsletter

I agaree with Ash on this. Everyone take a day or two and come up with some names. Then hit a poll. Afterall, we are in no hurry.

ScketreWhisp® wrote:If you are serious about the ½ or ¼ print of the PotVQ let me know.

I have permission from Pete to reprint, flesh out, redo PotVQ should the desire and time hit me

I almost printed some ½ copies for the NTRPG Con this year, just ran out of time

If it is ok then, I'd think a reprint is good. To me that would be worth every bit as much as owning an original.
I just want to read the contents and have a good old looksee and that won't ever happen any other way...

I'll go against the grain on format preference:  I'm all for print; .pdf is nice and handy as an alternative, as well as to archive/search, etc., but I'd really prefer a print newsletter that comes in the mail

Other possible newsletter content topics, off the top of my head:

- product reviews (new and old) and previews
- features/essays about specific products:  an essay from Bill about MDG products, for example, would be very cool to read
- updates to site info on products (new printings/variants/details/nuggets)
- the collecting year in review
- recollections and anecdotes from days of yore
- product announcements that would interest the audience (new PotVQ, reprinting Tortured Souls, etc.)
- collecting resources on mold, supplies (archival polybags/sheet protectors, etc.), other places for info, etc.
- tips on better searching on eBay (and off)
- product indexes (perhaps nascent subwebs in the making; perhaps redundant with the wiki?)
- letters to the editor/zine (a la Dragon Rumbles)
- guest editorials/rants/whatever (a la Forum from Dragon)
- bonus inserts in the center:  modules and new rules stuff (but I do agree that it is likely covered more broadly via Knockspell, Fight On!, Footprints, other fora, etc.)

Thoughts?

grodog wrote:I'll go against the grain on format preference:  I'm all for print; .pdf is nice and handy as an alternative, as well as to archive/search, etc., but I'd really prefer a print newsletter that comes in the mail

Perhaps a choice? Or at least electronic .pdf versions only for the European folk to save posting. I guess it depends on US postal costs, printing costs and amount that need to be run off to establish if thats a go over your side.

As for the other points, all nice thoughts. Perhaps rather than putting all the possible articles into one edition, they are spread out bi-quarterly.

i.e Reviews, collecting resources, search tips in Q1 & Q3. Then have product announcements, reminiscing, funny tales from your sessions and Industry folks contributions in Q2 & Q4?

Just as a for instance...  

If we are going to have a newsletter come out on a regular basis we would want to make sure that the second issue was all but done when the first is released. The time in between the first and second issues release is when work needs to be done on the third and so on. Otherwise it becomes impossible to have issues released on a schedule. Something will come up and there will be delays.

Of course it is easier to do a newsletter that has a long time period between issues.

For columns I think we can and should scan through the old recurring postings and see which would fit in the newsletter.

I have done proof reading and editing in the past. Anyone else want to proof read and edit articles? Is there anyone who can put this together as a pdf? (If and when we get a newsletter going?)

Heaps of great ideas on content. Name suggestions so far are:

AGN: Acaeum Guild Newsletter
Mages Pages
Pages from the Ages
Acaeum Members Guild
Contraho Scientia
The Vault of Knowledge
The RPGCA Reporter
The Acaeum Advocate
Acaeum RPGCA Newsletter

Treasured Sage Recordings
Hoard News

Cheers,
Malc

What about a Poll on the newsletter's name?