Now that we've rolled out our second issue, Fudge Factor is a reality. Which makes me think about it's longevity.

These days it seems pretty obvious that being online doesn't guarantee success. It doesn't even guarantee that your website will be around a year from now.

In order to keep our authors submitting, our readers visiting, and our staff working, we need to have a goal, and we need to have a plan to reach that goal. I mentioned our goals last issue, this time I'll be rambling briefly about our means of achieving those goals.

Because our content is author submitted, we have to do something to make Fudge Factor worth more than those articles would be worth on various webpages suppoorted by their authors. We have to add value.

So here is the value we plan to offer you, the reader:

Quality

Our editing process strives to make sure the content we deliver is the best that it can be. We try to protect you from Sturgeon's Law.

Convenience

We want you to come because this is the place to find the best Fudge material, and to find references to other material. Authors will want to submit to us because this is where the readers will come.

Reference

Starting with our next issue, we'll be rolling out information that will make us a reliable central reference site for Fudge material, which will make us a reference site for general roleplaying concepts. We intend to make the most of the hypertext capabilities of the Web.

Maintenance

By acting as an agent to collect this information, we can also make sure information isn't lost to the ether with time.

Freedom

Because we don't take exclusive rights to articles, we can perform these functions without inducing risk for our authors. Rather than being a large Single-Point-Of-Failure, we are a risk-free convenience.

Talk, of course, is cheap. To see our (figurative) money put where my mouth has gone, continue to check in regularly. We've got many projects in the works, and with new editors coming on staff, our issue quality should continue to improve. To help us reach our lofty goals, submit material, or send comments to the staff.