Free FG Campaigns?

**Xeran** · January 13th, 2007, 00:59

Look Fade and others, I am not trying to grind everybody down or anything, I am sorry if I offended you, because that is what it seems like. I just look at all the free PnP adventures out there and wish I had such freedom of choice with FG as well. Devinnite or anyone else with a campaign they are willing to share but needs some work, I would be happy to help out if I could use your adventure after we were done.

**Traygin** · January 13th, 2007, 03:49

Originally Posted by Fade

...I'm not sure why you expect others to give away free adventures...

Fade - Why would someone would want free FG modules, well people do like Free stuff, and not all that you buy is worth what you pay for it. Sure someone spent time working on it, but it is nice to also get something for free. A more detailed adventure made to professional quality standards would be worth paying for. If you look at Neverwinter Nights there are a lot of “FREE” adventures that people spent a lot of time working on, FG should be no different. There are also professionally made modules made for NWN that you have to pay for. If someone wrote a program to help create adventures etc… I am sure most users of FG would rather get it for free rather than paying the Programmer who created the application.

I my working on a campaign and plan on sharing it for free with the rest of the FG community who wish to use it and or improve etc… Anyways I do not think it would be worth paying for. The notion that a DM is so emotionally attached to their campaign that they would not want to share it, is a bit far fetched.

The way that I look at it unless a game module is worth paying for is if the developer has a lot of quality custom made “top down character/monster” images in it.

The whole issue of free FG game modules is somewhat the same way as the people who use Linux and other Open source software that they should get Open Source software for free, and scorn Microsoft because they believe the programmer should be paid (as a programmer I like being paid). Some software should be free some you should pay for, some FG game modules should be free and others should be paid for. Lets not jump down someone’s throat because they bring up the issue of “Free” modules.

**Xeran** · January 13th, 2007, 04:04

Thanks Traygin. Like I said though Fade, I am not trying to offend anyone. if I did so to you, I am sorry. I am not looking to make people angry here on the boards.

I look forward to your campaign being released Traygin, I am sure at least a few others feel the same way.

**richvalle** · January 13th, 2007, 04:07

Free!? I like free!

Back when Adventuresomedreams.com was around the guys made some small, free modules with the idea that they could be plugged into a game somewhere. Basicly one encounter at a tower. They were going to have several encounters made at the tower at different levels so there would be 1 for 1-3 level characters and 1 for 4-6 ect.

I thought there were a few made. At least 1. Sinkle, did that stuff make it over to FUM?

Speaking of FUM there might be some stuff over there too.

I think when FG 2.0 comes out there might be an increase as cutting and pasting should be easier (I hope!).

rv

**Xeran** · January 13th, 2007, 04:40

I keep hearing about this FG 2.0. Where can I learn more about it? Like will I have to pay again? What new features will there be. Will old FG content be compatable? When is it coming out?

**Traygin** · January 13th, 2007, 04:54

Xeran,
There is some info on the other boards on FG 2. So far you will not have to pay for it. It will be a free upgrade for existing users of FG. It should be compatible with the current version of Fg.

**kepli** · January 13th, 2007, 13:26

Originally Posted by Fade

I'm not sure why you expect others to give away free adventures.

Fade asks why others would give away their adventures for free, not if people would like to get free adventures Taygrin ... that last one has an easy answer, doesn't it?

LOL

Making an adventure for your own group is usually easy enough, since you write it around that group and you don't even have to write down everything, since you have it all in your head. Some details and storylines are often enough. This also constitutes hobby time for everyone doing this.
Making a generic adventure takes a lot more effort... a whole lot more. It needs to be consistent, complete, exciting, believable (as far as that can be for a fantasy adventure LOL), big enough to last for a few settings at least, NPCs, PCs, maps, etc, etc. Still just a hobby? Perhaps, but you won't find many people with that hobby imo ...
I have been working with someone on an adventure for over 2 months now and we just finished the detailed storyline and a lot of nice encounters. It's a complicated adventure that will take many more months to finish ... don't expect us to just give that away. Why would we?

**Fade** · January 13th, 2007, 16:46

I'm new to these boards, so perhaps I jumped in a little bit too harshly, its just I saw Xeran's comment "Argh! First they make you buy FG, then they get you with the add ons." and thought... the purchase of FG doesn't necessarily warrant you also getting hold of a stock of free adventures to play in and run. It's a client, and you get some ideas with the starter adventure, but it doesn't come bundled with a whole slew of adventures pre-made. There are one or two free ones out there, and there are DM's essentially sharing their adventures with players, when you sign up with them.

I'm all for community projects (like the NWN stuff, although the NWN community is a couple of orders of magnitude larger than the FG community) and if people build adventures as hobbies and want to share them I'm fine with that, and kudos to them.

Free stuff is good, but I think you shouldn't expect it all free just because you purchase the client.

As for DM's and their emotional attachment to their adventures being a 'bit far fetched', well, all I know is if someone spends a lot of effort and time, crafting a world from their imagination, I'm not sure they'd be so removed as to not have any emotional investment in that world. They may want to give it away for free. I'm not saying that doesn't happen. And its a good thing, when it does. It enriches the community. But I wouldn't want the community to expect campaign builders to relinquish their efforts.

Anyway, I think I probably picked up on a flippant comment from Xeran, and perhaps made too much of it. His comment was closed with a smiley.

**kepli** · January 13th, 2007, 17:39

He he ... doubt there was any harm done. We can all have our opinions and views on this issue (and many others

).
Hope you have a lot of fun with FG

**Traygin** · January 13th, 2007, 19:27

Fade - As Kepli has said no harm done. And also as Kepli has said is to have a lot of fun with FG!

Kelpli what is “Little Kingdoms”?

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