Monday, November 14, 2011

The Hydra Cooperative is Abornin'

The rpg publishing coop is a breath away from lifting off—no, no that's not right it fired up engines and left a stream of mist days ago as it roared away.

Co-op membership is now a little over 40 and covers a wide-range of some of the most creative people I know in the hobby. Game designers, artists, editors, writers, programmers, bloggers and many wearing several of those hats are now all pitching in on over 15 projects.

And what a mind-bendingly cool assortment of projects are lined up including such things as a Stormbringer first edition automated generator (to be fitted to my hack project), an Oriental Adventures retro-clone, boardgames, miniatures rules (By This Axe I Rule), hexcrawls, megadungeons, automated gaming tools, and even a number of full-fledged games. We even have one or two possible large-scale projects in the hopper.

Formal organization is scrambling behind all that activity trying to keep up and make sure we are on the path to become a coop that is more than the sum of its parts. We do officially have a name, the Hydra Cooperative, and now several very nifty logo variations to be voted on.

Over the weekend the first formal proposal of our organizational structure and timeline was floated. Which is all to mean that in the next few weeks you are likely to see it cohere as a bona fide cooperative.

We still have room inside our big tent. If you missed the first push, but are still interested in such a project, drop me a line at kutalik at the gmail dot the com and tell us why you'd like to be a member and what you think you can bring to the table. Onwards and upwards.

10 comments:

  1. Is this some kind of cult? It's not like Amway, is it?

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  2. No of course not, Brother Hydra. Now please resume work on the compound.

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  3. But you guys said the world was going to end soon...

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  4. Scott, I see that you are five minutes late to your Moral Duties of DMs mentoring session.

    Please report asap.

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  5. Yes, master. I'll bring my tract on social contracts...

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  6. We are the Born Again Creatives. Rejoice.

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  7. Is it wrong that if we are called Hydra, I want to be known as the Red Skull?

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  8. @Jag: It's not wrong - but you do have to wear the costume full time!

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  9. "Co-op membership is now a little over 40"

    Based on my experience of arranging events via meetup.com, my advice is not to think of people as members when they first express interest, but only after they've turned in some work that they said they were going to do.

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