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Company Questions
Question: Other game publishers
have fan sites, where dudes put their home made modules
and PC stat blocks and stuff. I’ve a buddy who can put
up a quick site at one of the free web space providers
like blogger.com .
I can add my own creatures and relic designs, like my
triple barrel shotgun with flame unit attachment, (just
as an example) and
some of the short adventures I wrote for my own group of
players, but the site would look like crap without
artwork. Can I legally scan the work from the pdf print
outs and place it on this site. If not, can I at least
put the Mutant Epoch logo on the page?
Answer: As far as I know it’s
unethical to use the art from the game for any purpose
other than personal use, and while the site might be
deemed as personal use, access to it would be public. We
have a series of images specifically for other
web site and print applications where anybody wanting to make a
TME fan
site or section inside their own personal web space can
use the promotional images and resources. As a Society
of Excavators member you can find
the ever growing collection of The Mutant Epoch fan site
usable imagery at the fan site support graphics page in
the member's section of the site. If you're not a member
yet, feel free to add one of
our banners or
mailing list cyborg skull graphics to our site.
May I add, on behalf of
all the Outland Arts staff and volunteers, that we are
honored that you would like to create a fan site, I am all for anything that helps
promote this product as well as the RPG industry as a
whole. I’ll email you directly when new fan site image
goodies, banners and whatnot are available.
Thanks-A.W.
Question: Is Outland Press going to
Gen Con or any of the other conventions in the coming
months?
Answer: We would love to go
and do plan to do so;
however, its a bit of an
expensive proposition right now. For the expense of the
trip (living in Canada), we
realized that while everybody needs a holiday, the funds
could better be spent hiring artists and printers and
advertising the actual products. Also, while many
non-OGL publishers attend GenCon and other huge
conventions, we
feel that our customers are a select, focused group who
dwell in many countries and regions, often far removed
from the large population centers of the United States,
and therefore spending our resources on a small
potential segment of the fan base would not serve the
majority of buyers and collectors, at least not this
year. On the other hand, we suspect that by showing up
at such a popular event would attract many gamers who
would otherwise not hear of us or previously been OGL,
4e, Pathfinder other RPG players only, our mission is not to
steal players from other systems, but to create new
players, individuals who have never participated in a
role playing game before.
The
plan is to first increase our game line, participate in
local and regional conventions and work our way up to
GenCon and Origins, Dragoncon and others venues. The
money saved , in the meantime, from travel expenses can
go into advertising, freelancers, and print runs. If we
could get our books into a group table or presented and
sold through an indie game booth, that would be great.
Question: What other incarnations of the
Mutant Epoch RPG have there been?
Answer: Initially, the game was called ‘The Risen
Few™’, then ‘Torn World’, which were somewhat
different in era, being played closer to our own time
after a nuclear holocaust, and having less advanced
technology and a more mad max feel. The Mutant Epoch is
set in the 24th century, after a few
centuries of wars which are still raging, where in some
areas old world civilizations continue to exist,
fighting for survival amid riotous mutant life, as well
as their arch enemies, the Mecha- the androids. Clones,
trans-humans, bioreplicants, beastial humans and cyborgs also cope to
survive, with all of these races being possible player
characters. The idea of one global war devastating the
earth suddenly, and then a sudden rise of mutants from
radiation simply didn’t fly with our designers. The
controversies around human cloning, the rise of
terrorist activities, the break down of nations via
separatist movements, f**king GMO food, as well as the growth of
trans-global corporations were all added to the stew
that is The Mutant Epoch™ setting. Why call it The Mutant Epoch? Well, mainly because the mutants, some
whom were genetically engineered to serve pure stock
humans, while others have mutated due to the exposure by
their ancestors to radiation and bio-genetic agents, are
now the most populace form of humanity, and in an age
free of human domination, have set out to claim this
age, this epoch, as their own. It is the best of times
to be a mutant, even though for a ruin explorer of any
race, it is a daily struggle to merely survive.
Question: Do you take art submissions? If
so, does your art director want printed samples or a
link to a web based portfolio?
Answer: Good question. We do
have art
and writing submissions links here and
it will take you to both our writers and artists
guidelines. While we
already have a few reliable artists, they
can’t do everything as they have been, and we like a lot
of different styles, especially for our magazine,
Excavator Monthly, and are always looking for new talent,
especially anyone who can render salvaged arms and
armor, robotics, rugged looking machines and freaky
mutant creatures. We would prefer a
web link instead of attachments in an email or printed samples.
If you don’t have a web site, then please send samples
to the address on our contact page, attention: Art
Director, Outland Arts.com.
Photocopies will do as most of what we are looking for
is pencil and ink work. Please attach your rate sheet
for quarter and half page maps and figure/item
renderings.
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