~Welcome, travelers, histographers, and artists. The Ald-Amura Historical Society was established to catalog and collect stories from all across this great land, and we are glad to have you here. Our world and our people have existed together for time untold, and there have been as many stories and cultures as there are grains of sand in the Burning Sea. We hope, with your help, to share these stories with the world and to preserve them for future generations.~
Hello, and thank you for your interest in this grant project. Simply put, the purpose of this program is to foster fan works and community within the Monster Care Squad/Legends of Ald-Amura fanbase, as well as the wider TTRPG and art communities as a whole. Our goal is to enrich the communities around us and give back some of the success we've been afforded by our peers.
As you submit your project, please consider the following: Ald-Amura is a vast world with many cultures, a long history, and a bright future. We have a strong vision of the aesthetic of Ald-Amura as a place and some restrictions on what we're comfortable with in terms of lore. For details, please familiarize yourself with our kickstarter page, which contains a preview draft of the game here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sandypuggames/monster-care-squad. Doing so will greatly increase your chances of being selected for our grant project. We do not require your work to be set explicitly in Ald-Amura, but we do prefer works that share at least some of the DNA of the game and world we're building.
That said, Ald-Amura is a world still under development. We welcome submissions that challenge the assumptions and concepts we've laid down in this world and explore them through different lenses.
Please read the following before filling out the grant request form:
Grants will be awarded by a council made up of 3 members of the creative team behind Monster Care Squad. Our decision will be based on a variety of factors, including our excitement around the original pitch, our confidence in your capacity to bring the idea to fruition, and our capacity to award the amount requested.
Grants are not commissions. We are not paying you to produce a work *for* us. This work will belong to you; you will be the sole rights holder to your work. You will be allowed to monetize this work, or not to, as you desire, or not.
You will be allowed to publish this work, and we encourage you to do so, but you are not obligated to do so. Financial and critical success are not requirements of the grant.
Grants will be awarded in two parts. 75% of the requested amount upon the awarding of the grant, and 25% upon the completion of the work in question. This condition can be waived upon request on a case by case basis.
Grant winners are not obligated to spend the grant money on specific work-related funds. Art requires living space, food, leisure, and all the things in life which capitalism demands payment for. If you receive your fund and opt to spend some of it on food or rent, that is your choice to make.
Sandy Pug Games will not own, nor take any part in publishing, the work you produce. We will happily support it via promotion, and if requested we will offer critique and feedback, but grant winners are not Sandy Pug Games freelancers.
There is no formal relationship established between grant winners and Sandy Pug Games. We will issue no deadlines, expectations of work, or contracts. Likewise we will not owe grant winners more than the money we award them.
We ask all grant winners to subtitle their works with the "Legends of Ald-Amura" subtitle and to use the Historical Society badge, which will be made available to grant winners. It is not required you do so.
Art sharing will be limited only to those projects that need it, and will be further limited to art selected by the Monster Care Squad team. Usage of art and assets not authorized by the team is forbidden.
Grants will be awarded no sooner than October 2020.
