A nice little letter from Cebrion on Canonfire!, specifically regarding
that site and plans for the new year, but referencing the Oerth Journal
as well. Two bits are worth repeating here:
"Launching a fully realized "Canonfire! Chronicles"(working title)
special features format PDF specifically for featuring fully contained
Adventures, select Article collections, Postfest! compilations, map
collections, and similar things.As a part of getting this put in place,
it may be that The Oerth Journal will be re-tasked, similar to what
happened with Dragon Magazine when Dungeon Magazine came onto the
scene. As such, The Oerth Journal would be more like Dragon Magazine,
featuring all of the varied special interest articles that The Oerth
Journal has mostly been known for. Lengthy adventures, really large
gazetteer-style offerings that literally could stand on their own as a
supplement book, and anything not really fitting the format of The
Oerth Journal all that well would be relegated to being featured in
Canonfire! Chronicles."
A quick note on this from someone who's been involved in the Oerth
Journal for sometime, namely me: there has been a lot of discussion over
the years (and I do mean -years-) about creating a sort of "Oerth
Journal Presents" imprint to handle exactly the type of content
discussed above. Adventures can be editing nightmares, and reprinting
articles from CF (or other sources) has not been seen as within our
writ. The CFC will put the best of Canonfire back into view, and allow
the OJ to focus on what it does best: providing, new, high-quality,
fan-created content for the World of Greyhawk. It's win all around.
And speaking of "fan-created"...
" It seems to be a popular
misconception that only the work of a few people is published in The
Oerth Journal in particular, but that is simply not true. Anyone
can submit their writing to The Oerth Journal, or to Canonfire!, and
the same can be said of Canonfire! Chronicles once it is launched. And
don?t forget Postfest! too, as that is a great avenue for getting
one's feet wet. That's how I started off myself. Little did I know
what I was getting myself into, but don't let that put you off from
doing so! :D"
