EmperorEternalXIX
03-31-2011, 07:32 AM
Greetings all. Been a long time since I've posted around these parts. I wanted to drop by and ask some opinions on my new 40k site (that I hope will someday rival the big players like BoLS). You can see it at www.evildice40k.com. Even though it is not much, I'm very proud of it.
However, that is not the only reason I am here.
I am very fortunate to have been blessed with a decently-sized group of players who all treat each other with respect, game competitively, and share a love of all things 40k. It's been really amazing, and the fact that my club is doing so well locally is all due to the fact that I have somehow attracted a crop of reasonable people who also happen to be wonderful gamers. Because of this, I return their favor with labors of love, putting myself over the coals a bit to make sure they have a great setup at Evil Dice. One of the things I created, originally for the club only, was the THERE IS ONLY WAR campaign supplement (if any of you happen to be familiar with it). This 40-page monster is, to me, not my best work...but it was very well received, largely because I don't think anyone has attempted anything on its scale before.
Most of you who are also Warseers will remember me from that forum. You don't see me so much nowadays; I was banned some time ago. It was a first offense/last offense kind of setup they have over there; you get banned, no matter how mundane the reason, it is permanent.
Why was I banned? They tell me it was because I used the word "retarded" in a post (which is common slang here on the mean streets of Boston). This netted me a warning, which, coupled with two warnings from months and even years earlier, gave them what they needed to ban me.
It so happens that this all was hot on the heels of about 4000 downloads of my campaign, through a thread on their website. Within minutes of my ban becoming active, the thread was removed, and I was bombarded with hundreds of emails from people looking for an impossible-to-find update for it that was literally about to debut.
With some fighting I got Warseer to restore the thread, but not my account. Every few months a user looking for a campaign discovers it, which leads it to get thread-ressed, resurging my inbox with the emails of users looking for the PDF's password.
The fact that I was banned on a mild technicality (using ancient warnings from when I first joined up as warnings #1 and #2, and banning me abruptly on #3 for something that is done with alarming regularity over there), and the fact that they tried to destroy the campaign, leads me only to believe that they did this because of the campaign and it's huge success, for fear of the legal team catching on and bringing the humble Warseers to their knees for it.
So for those of you who knew me on Warseer, or knew of this campaign and were wondering what became of me, that is the story. "Operatives" representing my group (including my roommate) still follow Warseer, but to release another campaign to the public there is to invite disaster.
Flash forward to now. I wish to promote my website and make it a heavy hitter down the road in the online 40k scene. I haven't got a lot of anything to put there except my own incendiary opinions (which works, since my career background is in journalism and magazine writing). As a result I have begun work on a "sequel" to my campaign, a much more streamlined effort known simply as THERE IS ONLY WAR 2. The previous campaign exceeded 6000 downloads, and I am sure this one will do equally well, but I obviously can not release it on Warseer. Ergo, I seek to find a platform to promote the campaign (and by extension, my website) amongst like-minded players who will appreciate it (and if I can spite Warseer in the process, so much the better).
When the time comes, I was just wondering...would it be at all appropriate to publish the campaign here?
However, that is not the only reason I am here.
I am very fortunate to have been blessed with a decently-sized group of players who all treat each other with respect, game competitively, and share a love of all things 40k. It's been really amazing, and the fact that my club is doing so well locally is all due to the fact that I have somehow attracted a crop of reasonable people who also happen to be wonderful gamers. Because of this, I return their favor with labors of love, putting myself over the coals a bit to make sure they have a great setup at Evil Dice. One of the things I created, originally for the club only, was the THERE IS ONLY WAR campaign supplement (if any of you happen to be familiar with it). This 40-page monster is, to me, not my best work...but it was very well received, largely because I don't think anyone has attempted anything on its scale before.
Most of you who are also Warseers will remember me from that forum. You don't see me so much nowadays; I was banned some time ago. It was a first offense/last offense kind of setup they have over there; you get banned, no matter how mundane the reason, it is permanent.
Why was I banned? They tell me it was because I used the word "retarded" in a post (which is common slang here on the mean streets of Boston). This netted me a warning, which, coupled with two warnings from months and even years earlier, gave them what they needed to ban me.
It so happens that this all was hot on the heels of about 4000 downloads of my campaign, through a thread on their website. Within minutes of my ban becoming active, the thread was removed, and I was bombarded with hundreds of emails from people looking for an impossible-to-find update for it that was literally about to debut.
With some fighting I got Warseer to restore the thread, but not my account. Every few months a user looking for a campaign discovers it, which leads it to get thread-ressed, resurging my inbox with the emails of users looking for the PDF's password.
The fact that I was banned on a mild technicality (using ancient warnings from when I first joined up as warnings #1 and #2, and banning me abruptly on #3 for something that is done with alarming regularity over there), and the fact that they tried to destroy the campaign, leads me only to believe that they did this because of the campaign and it's huge success, for fear of the legal team catching on and bringing the humble Warseers to their knees for it.
So for those of you who knew me on Warseer, or knew of this campaign and were wondering what became of me, that is the story. "Operatives" representing my group (including my roommate) still follow Warseer, but to release another campaign to the public there is to invite disaster.
Flash forward to now. I wish to promote my website and make it a heavy hitter down the road in the online 40k scene. I haven't got a lot of anything to put there except my own incendiary opinions (which works, since my career background is in journalism and magazine writing). As a result I have begun work on a "sequel" to my campaign, a much more streamlined effort known simply as THERE IS ONLY WAR 2. The previous campaign exceeded 6000 downloads, and I am sure this one will do equally well, but I obviously can not release it on Warseer. Ergo, I seek to find a platform to promote the campaign (and by extension, my website) amongst like-minded players who will appreciate it (and if I can spite Warseer in the process, so much the better).
When the time comes, I was just wondering...would it be at all appropriate to publish the campaign here?