From: [nigel d f] at [aol.com] (NigelDF)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.misc
Subject: Adventures Unlimited magazine
Date: 10 Nov 1994 15:35:41 -0500

We Want Your Requests!
    Adventures Unlimited is a new quarterly fantasy role playing magazine
that will contain six to eight adventure scenarios in each issue. We want
to cover as wide a variety of gaming systems as we can, and want to be as
interactive with the gaming community as possible. Thus we're thus putting
out this call for "requests."
    What gaming systems do you play on a regular basis? What kind of
scenarios would suit your campaign best? Is there a particular setting,
type of character, magical or scientific gizmo that you'd like to see an
adventure focus upon?
    We're not looking for entire adventure plots -- just suggestions as to
what would best serve your gaming needs. The requests should be one or two
sentences, at most. Something along the lines of: "I'd like to see a Call
of Cthulhu adventure that focuses on rum running during the depression."
(We used this suggestion in our first issue.) You get the idea.
    We'll be listing the names of those whose suggestions we use in our
magazine, giving them credit for their input. Please reply with your full
name, plus the city and state/province you're from, e.g.: "John Doe of Los
Angeles, CA." Add the country, too, if you're writing from outside the
U.S. or Canada.
    As each issue of the magazine is released, we'll also be encouraging
our readers to write to us with ideas on how they used the adventures we
presented in a particular issue. What did they change, and how? If the
adventure was converted to another gaming system, what was involved? We'll
be publishing these letters in the magazine, so that our readers can get
maximum use out of each issue.
    The first issue of Adventures Unlimited will be released in December,
1994. It will include adventures for Shadowrun, Call of Cthulhu, Cyberpunk
2020, Ars Magica, Over the Edge, Vampire the Masquerade, and GURPS -- plus
an article on a variant rules system for Magic the Gathering. Since I know
some of you are going to ask, you can purchase Issue #1 by sending $3.95
U.S. or $5.25 Canadian to:

     Bootstrap Press Inc.,
     3893 Norfolk St.,
     Burnaby, B.C.,
     Canada
     V5G 1E6.

    Cheques or money orders should be made payable to Bootstrap Press Inc.
Our newsstand price will be $4.95, but we're offering the first issue via
direct mail at what would normally be the subscription price of $3.95. If
you want to go ahead and subscribe for a full year (four issues) it's
$15.80 U.S. or $21 Canadian.
    We're currently looking for "requests" for the second and third
issues. The systems we're thinking of covering (pending permission from
the gaming companies) are: Earthdawn, Star Wars, Whispering Vault, Toon,
Castle Falkenstein, Kaotic, Nephillim, Nexus, and Millennium's End. If
there's something not on this list you'd like us to include, please let us
know. If you have a request that ties in with one of these (or any other)
games, please send it to our editorial director, Lisa Smedman, at:
[L S MED] at [WIMSEY.COM]
    I know that a number of you are itching to write gaming material, and
will want to do much more than just send us your requests. One of our
longterm goals at Adventures Unlimited is to open the magazine up to other
writers and thus expand the game design market. For the moment, we're
keeping the writing and design work in-house, paying ourselves in shares
in the company, rather than cash. It costs a heck of a lot to launch a
magazine, and this is our way of making the budget work. But we can open
up small chunks of the magazine to other writers.
    We can currently accommodate short sidebars that detail new monsters,
magic spells, NPCs, equipment, vehicles, settings, etc., rather than
entire adventures. The emphasis is on SHORT -- no more than 500 words.
Basically, we want to showcase the original ideas of the gaming community.
We cannot accept submissions based on anything TSR or Palladium does,
since we do not have their permission to publish their material, but
anything else is fair game, pending being granted permission of the gaming
companies to run the stuff.
    If you're keen on sending us a sidebar, you must first write to us to
get our writer's guidelines. You'll also need to sign a release form, so
DON'T send us anything until you've got a release form to accompany your
article. (The release form is the reason you have to get the guidelines by
regular mail; we want to make sure you get it intact.)
    To get our writer's guidelines, send a SASE to: Editorial Director,
Bootstrap Press, 3893 Norfolk St., Burnaby, B.C., Canada, V5G 1E6. Please
remember, folks, we're talking a CANADIAN stamp; U.S. stamps do not work
in Canada. If you can't get your hands on a Canadian stamp, an
international postal reply coupon will do. The envelope should be
letter-sized.
    We're looking forward to receiving your input!

Lisa Smedman, Editorial Director
Adventures Unlimited Magazine