Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Just a Little Note About Future Releases

... Insect Shrine is going to be more of a mini-campaign than a simple adventure. The page count isn't finalized, nor even the decision of whether to use a color cover (I'll be seeing a color version of it tonight), but we may be looking at a $14-$15 Noble Knight price. That's just a rough estimate right now, of course. I know that's almost as much as one of Paizo's adventure path releases, but that's the price of short-run printing that needs to be shipped across the ocean.

Still, it'll be big and meaty and packed with art.

After Insect Shrine, however, the future releases will be much shorter and much cheaper. There are three reasons for this:

  • I'll jump out the window if I have to keep managing these large releases every 4-8 weeks. 2 releases of 16 pages each are much less stress and agony production-wise than a single 32-pager.
  • Smaller adventures should appeal to more people - easier to just plop into a campaign than a "deluxe" adventure is.
  • Smaller price = easier to afford. Especially when the dollar is tanking bit by bit.

But you never know what's going to happen when trying to play publisher, so I have to make sure to get my big ideas out first.

And this is the big one. Insect Shrine is going to kick your ass. It'll be different from any of the current releases. Blood and thunder and swarms of enemies to hack away at and run away from, along with the usual interesting NPCs and creepy locations.

But I did want to let you know that LotFP releases are not just going to be a continuous stream of bigger and bigger and bigger books.

5 comments:

  1. But I did want to let you know that LotFP releases are not just going to be a continuous stream of bigger and bigger and bigger books.

    You say that now, but eventually you'll get around to writing your Temple of Elemental Evil. :)

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  2. I didn't say there won't ever be bigger books, just that they won't be a continuous stream of them and not until next year at least. :)

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  3. Those are good points. Modular and small adventures can still involve a lot of variety. However, I think there needs to be something more than the "here are five ogres" kind of minimalism that has been praised by some - to me, those feel a bit flat.

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  4. Thank goodness you have a plan!
    ; )

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  5. I don't remember if we talked about this, but maybe you should consider printing in the US and shipping whatever you need to have in Europe to you, instead of the other way around. Could be considerably cheaper with the dollar where it is. Worth comparing the prices, anyway.

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