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For the cover some type of recruitment poster like cover would be pretty cool or just go with a sexy SoB that always looks good .

Well it's looking like the cover for the 'official' first issue will be Issue '3' - with the OH MISTRESS! feature - no sense in changing a good thing

I'll be making another announcement tomorrow where I'll outline what the issue will be including at this stage (to keep everyone up to speed as well as to highlight what's missing/vacant features/articles) and also announcing the latest additions to the team. I will probably post a snippet of the work I've done so far as well, just to inject some visual material into the thread.

Now I'm going to bed on my brand new memory foam mattress, where no doubt I'll dream about formatting and copying and pasting text boxes

I vote to keep the name PlayAdept. It just sounds so right.

Guardlard01 wrote:I vote to keep the name PlayAdept. It just sounds so right.

Agreed.

Here's a bit of a teaser for the picture I'll be submitting. Any idea when you want the content for the first issue in by?

AlexHolker wrote:Here's a bit of a teaser for the picture I'll be submitting. Any idea when you want the content for the first issue in by?

Really my only suggestion is to make the grip a bit thicker.
Other than that, looks like a good pic

forruner_mercy wrote:

AlexHolker wrote:Here's a bit of a teaser for the picture I'll be submitting. Any idea when you want the content for the first issue in by?

Really my only suggestion is to make the grip a bit thicker.

I suppose it's a good sign that your only suggestion is something I'd already planned to change, the sketchwork just doesn't show up very well in the lower resolution picture I posted.

Well, then looks like you are well on your way

Heresy?

Foid wrote:Heresy?

Yes, heresy. Sexy heresy.

Def keep PlayAdept its a very smart and stylish name

Coolyo294 wrote:

Foid wrote:Heresy?

Yes, heresy. Sexy heresy.

Very sexy heresy

+++ANNOUNCEMENT MODE+++

I'd like to welcome the following to our team:

Bloodfrenzy187 is our Astartes Editor, a burdensome title if there ever was one, and is busy preparing a Thunderhawk to drop us in another feature article.

Capitansolstice is our resident Survival Expert, he'll be busy dodging choppa's and surviving within a seedy Hive City.

Finally iproxtaco is our Chaos Editor (pending confirmation), he'll no doubt be busy feeding on your souls and opening up a warp storm near you shortly.

I thought I'd take the time to update you all on content, and see if we can hash out a close approximation of what this issue will involve/how long it's likely to be. Here's what it's looking like we'll get so far:

The year for the first issue is 996.M41 (or thereabouts) - so fairly late and the Imperium is well-into 'The Time of Ending'. The date can always be changed accordingly - it all depends if this is the only issue we do or not

The idea is to have an underlying hint of a story between the Magazine and the Imperium, fleshing out some of its reporters as we go.

Cover Story: Article on the Sisters Repentia - and what really goes on behind convent doors! (myself)
Feature 1: Article on Choppa's and why Ork's are the best (TheNewMexicanGeneral & no doubt KingCracker will have little bits to add)
Feature 2: Article on the biological creation of an Astartes, including interviews with the surgeons/marine initiate in question (Bloodfrenzy187)
Feature 3: Article on the notorious Sapphic Hive (myself)
Feature 4: ?

We have enough Orky content this issue, an Astartes feature, Repentia and a 'general' feature - so if any of our Editors has an article suggestion they'd like to take up with their chosen faction please PM me. If anyone else who reads this would like to write an article please do so - PM me with your idea and we'll work from there.

Anyone is welcome to submit an article - if you're not sure on what we're looking for simply use the titles/descriptions on the covers I've posted as guidlines.

These articles are (hopefully) going to be about 3-5 pages long each (with a single page devoted to the 'cover' piece of each). So this lot is anywhere between 15-25 pages long.

Regular Features

Vox Caster: Our double page news spread. Bloodfrenzy187 has already sent some latest Astartes information. We're looking for brief news snippets, no more than a few sentences, like a cross between a News Bulletin and the timeline events in a Codex book. I'm thinking about setting up a Twitter account for this feature, as it's almost perfect for it - who knows, maybe after this issue? For now I'd like to ask all Editors to maybe write two or three for their chosen race - so we get a nice even spread of galactic action! Also if you're reading this and fancy doing a few, please feel free to post them here under the introduction: 'This just in' or the the like.

Ask Gitcracka: KingCracker has filled out a few responses to some letters/questions I sent him. I'll be starting a new thread where you can ask him anything you like (within reason). It'll best be kept to 'in-universe' writing - I'll post actual guidelines in the thread once I set it up.

Letters: As this is the first issue, I'll be doing an editorial piece no doubt congratulating everybody in self-appreciating smug platitudes and will be doing a brief statement from our mysterious (no doubt powerful) Benefactor.

Pages from the Ratling Cookbook: This issue we bring you recipes for Grox Frontline Stew & Catachan Jungle Soup - Malroke (or rather "Steve Orkwin") will be adding a little piece about some of the ingredients of these two great dishes.

Entertainment Oddity: Our 'entertainment spotter'. This issue we receive an anonymous leak of a scripted musical - destined (by our reckoning) for greatness! (Azure Phaeron)

Adeptmate/s: This issue we have two anonymous Battle Sisters - exposing a bit too much (definitely NSFW Heresy!)

Girls of the Underhive: AlexHolker's no doubt epic Escher ganger, getting all cozy with a very big Bolter

Ads

I've got about 5-7 pages worth of ads. We need about 12-15 more. All ads will be full page and some perhaps serialised as 'filler' material. I've seen the suggestions so far in the thread and will be working on one or two of them. If anyone has an ad they'd like to make please do so and email it to me - if anyone has more sugestions for ads, please post the here. Here's an example of an Ad - a big thank you to Varakir over at Heresy-Online for producing this classic piece of 40k humour:



Fiction: I'll be PMing DeathReaper about this - if you have a short story (anything between 3000-7000 words) please submit it to the email, or else PM the link to DeathReaper and/or myself. I think fiction is best left 'out of universe' (but obviously written in-universe ) - as we're unlikely to find a piece written from a 1st person perspective or from an imagined Imperial citizen publishing a Grisham-esque novel (or the like).

There's still room for Fashion (although it's not essential) and Soo'Vah'Cha will no doubt give us a piece on Tech for this issue.

For ads/regular features that's about 34 pages (not including the Fiction section) so it's likely to be 40+ pages by the end, maybe more if we come up with more regular features/material.

In total it's looking to be a respectible 60-70 pages worth of content. This would go up a lot more if we had more images of lovely ladies to use - but for now I'm satisfied with this outline for the test issue. If it's successful we'll see about getting commissions done - I'm sure there's more talented people lurking on Dakka who could help us out on this front.

As usual if anyone has anything to add/ask please post it here or PM me.

+++ANNOUNCEMENT MODE ENDS+++

AlexHolker wrote:Here's a bit of a teaser for the picture I'll be submitting. Any idea when you want the content for the first issue in by?

As yet there is no deadline per se - it's slowly coming together and I'm doing as much formatting as possible, as and when I receive material. She's looking great though - can't wait to see the finished result! Would it be possible for you to submit a final version to me with a nice, clean, unobtrusive line down the middle - so I can spread her evenly? I'm working on a standard, full page, A4 format.

Thanks - we need her

If you want more content I could do 'new tech reviews', imagine a veteran guardsman that's too wounded to fight but too valuable to drop, working with the mechanicum on new weaponry, then releasing snippets of information on them over a couple of pages per issue. Could do one offensive piece and one defensive piece per issue...?

Let me know if you think that's a go-er and I'll get to writing up some content

Had another idea.

What about a semi-/regular piece on the Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes, where people can send in their own homebrew chapters Index Astartes and have them featured over a couple of pages?

Just a thought, be interested to see what you think!

kitch102 wrote:If you want more content I could do 'new tech reviews', imagine a veteran guardsman that's too wounded to fight but too valuable to drop, working with the mechanicum on new weaponry, then releasing snippets of information on them over a couple of pages per issue. Could do one offensive piece and one defensive piece per issue...?

Let me know if you think that's a go-er and I'll get to writing up some content

Okay a lot of people want more stuff on tech - I was thinking of keeping it to one article an issue, but as it's quite an important part of 40k we could widen that. I'd welcome anything I can stick in a column and attach it where needed - so 100-300 words. Rather than a veteran guardsman I think a tech-priest would be better (as anyone could get them talking about tech if they showed an interest) - and so long as the tech isn't too 'new' or radical - anything you (or others) come up with should be fine. I like the idea of offensive and defensive pieces - as I can place them opposite each other

Castiel wrote:Had another idea.

What about a semi-/regular piece on the Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes, where people can send in their own homebrew chapters Index Astartes and have them featured over a couple of pages?

Just a thought, be interested to see what you think!

We could, but again I'd like to restrict it to an odd short column or single page mini-feature here and there, rather than a full-blown Index Astartes article - we all want them back, but I don't think it's suitable for this project as it seems more 'hobby'. This would leave room for full Chapter features where perhaps we can get some ladies posing in faux astartes armour pieces (as marines will be unlikey to pose for a pict ) - should we obtain the art we'll need. It'll be quite easy to do and will help flesh out the magazine more and we could always do a similar thing for Imperial Guard Regiments etc...

I'm giving it the go ahead, we can have 2 this issue and if people could provide the chapter badges and/or a colour schematic that would be great. If you'd like to do this, PM me the material or, as ever, email it to DEAR.PLAYADEPT@gmail.com

Thanks for the ideas guys, keep it up

What about adding a section for a sort of in-universe comedy single panel comic or comic strip or something similar?

Coolyo294 wrote:

Foid wrote:Heresy?

Yes, heresy. Sexy heresy.

Oh man, can I put this in my sig? That was so win.

Obsidian Raven wrote:What about adding a section for a sort of in-universe comedy single panel comic or comic strip or something similar?

Well we are looking for single page comic bits, single panels or comic strips - there's quite a few online I could throw in but I'm hoping someone, somewhere, somehow, submits new material - although the comics are often linked with articles that feature etc. The aren't a priority at this stage, but they are most welcome.

Skarwael wrote:

Coolyo294 wrote:

Foid wrote:Heresy?

Yes, heresy. Sexy heresy.

Oh man, can I put this in my sig? That was so win.

I concur - it was amusing

What about talking to the creator of Wobbly Model Syndrome?
http://wobblymodel.weebly.com/

forruner_mercy wrote:What about talking to the creator of Wobbly Model Syndrome?
http://wobblymodel.weebly.com/

Good plan

Skarwael wrote:

Coolyo294 wrote:

Foid wrote:Heresy?

Yes, heresy. Sexy heresy.

Oh man, can I put this in my sig? That was so win.

Sure.

For comics try talking to the guy that did TSOALR he was amazing with the work he did..

Finished with my article (I think)

You will tell us when we need to do something right? Because my position can really only be done if I am told to look over something

+++ ANNOUNCEMENT MODE +++

I'd like to welcome to Wim, over at WobblyModels http://wobblymodel.weebly.com/ as our in-house comics writer. If you haven't checked out his work, I strongly urge you do so. I've thrown Wim a few creative bones concerning the test-issue and personally look forward to seeing what comic-delights he comes up with. Thanks to forruner_mercy for pointing me to his direction

AlexHolker has sent me an update of our lovely centrefold and she's looking even sexier

Hopefully I'll have my two articles finished by the end of the day and am looking forward to seeing everyone's work - it shouldn't be too long before the test-issue is ready. I'd like to thank everyone for their contributions and suggestions so far. I'll be sure to send the rough-draft to any Editorial staff who'd like to critique it before 'publication'. So, dear Editors, PM me your email addresses or shoot me an email and if you like I can send you what I've currently worked on. It's still very rough but I see no reason why we can't, between us, critique as we go in order to get the best product as is possible at this stage.

Thanks

+++ ANNOUNCEMENT ENDS +++

Here is my article:

Oh man I cant wait too see this finished, this will reek of awesome.

Tomorrow I will start my article.

I'll write some stuff up when I can, maybe send some letters into the Agony Ork