Hydra Rising: why crowd sourcing is powerful

Things take time to create. That whole linguistic archaeology thing you might have noticed took over 2.5 years to build alone... It's why the Internet itself is the Ultimate Communist achievement of the United States... A collective pool of Ideas amassed by a global population, that can be worked with and built on, and something achieved beyond the locked in a room and you dont come out until I see a God damn result method. It is Group creativity, and group output.

If you want Winds of Winter in a Week, get five hundred Writers to turn out an eight hundred word short story each. That way you dont beat your head against a wall waiting on Martin to finish it...

Here we have a random image taken by a traveller flying over Western USA which we (appropriate for this example) modify with a little something crawling from a crater...

Add a Title so we know what we are dealing with.

And now all we need is a group of five hundred people to cough up an 800-word short story about where they go, or what they do if come Monday morning the giant alien horror emerges from a crater in Western USA... energy beams from its kilometre high eyeballs burning down planes, missiles, and approaching armies.

Then Editors to check, and stuff like that. That's just semantics. Ant them publish for $2 profit online and huzzah, a work from home novel powerhouse raising people out of poverty with a thousand dollars a writer per million copies sold. You would probably even throw money at that image just to see it in cinemas.

Can D&D products be the result of a similar process? Shared setting Fiction - yes, but an actual game product? Maybe a collection of crowd sourced NPCs, monsters, treasures. Published and a share of the profits divided to your contributors... Sure.

You got five hundred school friends, a church congregation, or internet followers? Go pitch in and raise some funds for your Christmas party.

Hydra Rising...