Showing posts with label The Grinding Gear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Grinding Gear. Show all posts
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Rate the LotFP Modules!
... because the Dragonsfoot people are doing it with the TSR B series, and I haven't got anything actually interesting to post, I thought I'd do this here.
- Death Frost Doom
- The Grinding Gear
- No Dignity in Death: The Three Brides
- Which adventure is your favorite? Least favorite? Why?
- Which adventure do you think is the most difficult? Easiest? Why?
- What is the one thing, between all the modules, you most wish you had come up with?
- What's the best "screw you!" moment of any of the modules?
- If there was one thing you would change about one of the adventures, what would it be?
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Friday, December 18, 2009
Grinding Gear: Chugging Along at Noble Knight
The Grinding Gear is the first adventure I've released to not hit #1 at Noble Knight.
It went as high as #2, nestled between the new Warhammer box set and the Pathfinder core book. Not a horrible place to be, really.
Once it started falling, it was as low as #6, but now it's back up to #4, and that's with the new Dr. Who game shooting straight to the top so it still climbed back with new competition up. Not bad for three and a half weeks after release. That means steady sales. Wooo!
The last copies of Death Frost Doom (no reprint for a few months) were shipped off on Wednesday, so they should be ready for your "got Christmas money, wooo!" spending. :)
It went as high as #2, nestled between the new Warhammer box set and the Pathfinder core book. Not a horrible place to be, really.
Once it started falling, it was as low as #6, but now it's back up to #4, and that's with the new Dr. Who game shooting straight to the top so it still climbed back with new competition up. Not bad for three and a half weeks after release. That means steady sales. Wooo!
The last copies of Death Frost Doom (no reprint for a few months) were shipped off on Wednesday, so they should be ready for your "got Christmas money, wooo!" spending. :)
Monday, December 14, 2009
Tenkar's Tavern reviews The Grinding Gear
Right here.
One interesting note is GG is said to be "extremely well laid out if you want to read it on the Kindle DX," which is something I've been curious about since I've never even seen an ebook reader, and can't find good information on how to format specifically for that sort of thing. I guess this is a good sign. :)
One interesting note is GG is said to be "extremely well laid out if you want to read it on the Kindle DX," which is something I've been curious about since I've never even seen an ebook reader, and can't find good information on how to format specifically for that sort of thing. I guess this is a good sign. :)
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
Official Press Release for The Grinding Gear
New Release: The Grinding Gear
LotFP: RPG Releases are available exclusively from these vendors:
Finland: Arkkikivi
France: Ludikbazar
Germany: Sphärenmeisters Spiele
North America: Noble Knight Games
UK: Leisure Games
Worldwide: LotFP Webstore
Also available in PDF from Your Games Now and RPGNow
LotFP: RPG releases are designed to be played with old-school fantasy games, most notably Labyrinth Lord, Swords & Wizardry,and OSRIC; see the full list of directly-compatible games here.
The Grinding Gear
If this adventure does not drain every drop of your blood, then it will disintegrate you. If it does not disintegrate you, it will electrocute you. If it does not electrocute you, it will starve you. If it does not starve you, it still will defeat you in a battle of wits.
You very well may survive.
But only the best will win the treasure!
If you think you're ready, if you've got the guts, tell your group's referee that you want to test yourself against THE GRINDING GEAR. Then you can answer the question:
Are You Good Enough?
The Grinding Gear presents a self-contained adventure setting consisting of an abandoned inn and the dungeon below it. It includes over 50 detailed locations, three referee maps, a player handout, plus referee notes and "designer notes" that tie everything together.
The print version is a sixteen page adventure booklet surrounded by three detached glossy heavy-stock covers featuring maps, artwork, and the player handout.
The PDF version comes with both A4 (36 pages including all notes and maps) and Letter-sized (37 pages) formats, laid out specifically for the PDF format and fully bookmarked.
Challenging. Cruel. Rewarding.
The Grinding Gear.
For low-level characters.
Adventure by James Edward Raggi IV
Artwork by Laura Jalo
Cartography by Ramsey Dow
Some advance reviews are in!
"Another absolute gem" - Jeff Rients
"As old school as it gets" - Von der Seifenkiste herab...
"So here we have a product that is what it says on the tin: a low-level one-shot puzzle dungeon that tests the player's dungeoneering skills." - Playing D&D with Porn Stars
"Looks so pro we might as well start calling Jim a sellout"
Also Available:
Death Frost Doom
"Death Frost Doom is, quite simply, an inspiring product, managing to combine an old school agnosticism toward "story" with the kind of atmosphere and ambience one tends to associate with newer understandings of roleplaying." - Grognardia
"I certainly could recommend this product to anyone who enjoys old-school fantasy play, particularly with that horror/weird-tale twist." - RPG Pundit
No Dignity in Death: The Three Brides
"It's a bold, original product that shows off the true potential of the old school renaissance to use the wisdom of the past as a springboard for new ventures that avoid the mistakes of the past." - Grognardia
"Fundamentally different than anything TSR ever published." - Geoffrey McKinney, Dragonsfoot and RPG.net review
People of Pembrooktonshire
"Nearly all of the NPCs, in and of themselves, are interesting and quite a number of them are sheer genius." - Grognardia
"In a lot of ways, this book lays the foundation for understanding how to set up a political or role-playing heavy sandbox setting more than anything I have read." - Savage Swords of Athanor
Green Devil Face
The 'zine of diabolical tricks and traps ready to use in your dungeon!
LotFP: RPG Releases are available exclusively from these vendors:
Finland: Arkkikivi
France: Ludikbazar
Germany: Sphärenmeisters Spiele
North America: Noble Knight Games
UK: Leisure Games
Worldwide: LotFP Webstore
Also available in PDF from Your Games Now and RPGNow
LotFP: RPG releases are designed to be played with old-school fantasy games, most notably Labyrinth Lord, Swords & Wizardry,and OSRIC; see the full list of directly-compatible games here.
The Grinding Gear
If this adventure does not drain every drop of your blood, then it will disintegrate you. If it does not disintegrate you, it will electrocute you. If it does not electrocute you, it will starve you. If it does not starve you, it still will defeat you in a battle of wits.
You very well may survive.
But only the best will win the treasure!
If you think you're ready, if you've got the guts, tell your group's referee that you want to test yourself against THE GRINDING GEAR. Then you can answer the question:
Are You Good Enough?
The Grinding Gear presents a self-contained adventure setting consisting of an abandoned inn and the dungeon below it. It includes over 50 detailed locations, three referee maps, a player handout, plus referee notes and "designer notes" that tie everything together.
The print version is a sixteen page adventure booklet surrounded by three detached glossy heavy-stock covers featuring maps, artwork, and the player handout.
The PDF version comes with both A4 (36 pages including all notes and maps) and Letter-sized (37 pages) formats, laid out specifically for the PDF format and fully bookmarked.
Challenging. Cruel. Rewarding.
The Grinding Gear.
For low-level characters.
Adventure by James Edward Raggi IV
Artwork by Laura Jalo
Cartography by Ramsey Dow
Some advance reviews are in!
"Another absolute gem" - Jeff Rients
"As old school as it gets" - Von der Seifenkiste herab...
"So here we have a product that is what it says on the tin: a low-level one-shot puzzle dungeon that tests the player's dungeoneering skills." - Playing D&D with Porn Stars
"Looks so pro we might as well start calling Jim a sellout"
Also Available:
Death Frost Doom
"Death Frost Doom is, quite simply, an inspiring product, managing to combine an old school agnosticism toward "story" with the kind of atmosphere and ambience one tends to associate with newer understandings of roleplaying." - Grognardia
"I certainly could recommend this product to anyone who enjoys old-school fantasy play, particularly with that horror/weird-tale twist." - RPG Pundit
No Dignity in Death: The Three Brides
"It's a bold, original product that shows off the true potential of the old school renaissance to use the wisdom of the past as a springboard for new ventures that avoid the mistakes of the past." - Grognardia
"Fundamentally different than anything TSR ever published." - Geoffrey McKinney, Dragonsfoot and RPG.net review
People of Pembrooktonshire
"Nearly all of the NPCs, in and of themselves, are interesting and quite a number of them are sheer genius." - Grognardia
"In a lot of ways, this book lays the foundation for understanding how to set up a political or role-playing heavy sandbox setting more than anything I have read." - Savage Swords of Athanor
Green Devil Face
The 'zine of diabolical tricks and traps ready to use in your dungeon!
Saturday, November 28, 2009
New Review of The Grinding Gear
Geoffrey McKinney has posted his review of The Grinding Gear both at Dragonsfoot and the OD&D Discussion board. It'll be popping up at RPG.net soon as well, I'm told.
Friday, November 27, 2009
The Grinding Gear Chart Positions!
The wreck that was Thursday is done, and Friday is looking much much better!
The Grinding Gear has cracked Noble Knight's Top 10, and both RPGNow and DriveThruRPG's Top 40.
This with only 3 of what should end up being over a dozen reviews posted, and since the French and British shipments aren't for sale yet (the Finnish vendorpeople should be here in quarter of an hour to pick up their copies) I haven't even announced the release anywhere but here.
Not bad. So far so good. The best is yet to come. blah blah blah.
Buy a copy or three, will ya? :)
The Grinding Gear has cracked Noble Knight's Top 10, and both RPGNow and DriveThruRPG's Top 40.
This with only 3 of what should end up being over a dozen reviews posted, and since the French and British shipments aren't for sale yet (the Finnish vendorpeople should be here in quarter of an hour to pick up their copies) I haven't even announced the release anywhere but here.
Not bad. So far so good. The best is yet to come. blah blah blah.
Buy a copy or three, will ya? :)
Monday, November 23, 2009
The Grinding Gear available at Noble Knight, Your Games Now, and RPGNow
In Print
Available at Noble Knight here.
Also available at the LotFP Webstore here.
Also still available from Sphärenmeisters Spiele here.
PDF
Available at Your Games Now here.
Available at RPGNow here.
(The previous issues concerning the PDFs have been resolved.)
Still waiting on it to arrive at Ludikbazar, but French fans should be able to order it there any day now.
The original shipment to England, made three weeks ago, still hasn't turned up, and that package didn't even have Grinding Gear in it, so not sure what's up there.
Arkkikivi should have copies shortly as well.
Available at Noble Knight here.
Also available at the LotFP Webstore here.
Also still available from Sphärenmeisters Spiele here.
Available at Your Games Now here.
Available at RPGNow here.
(The previous issues concerning the PDFs have been resolved.)
Still waiting on it to arrive at Ludikbazar, but French fans should be able to order it there any day now.
The original shipment to England, made three weeks ago, still hasn't turned up, and that package didn't even have Grinding Gear in it, so not sure what's up there.
Arkkikivi should have copies shortly as well.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Another (nano) Review of The Grinding Gear, plus Death Frost Doom Actual Play, plus...
Jeff Rients says a few good words about The Grinding Gear here. I expect this to show up at Noble Knight and LudikBazar (and then RPGNow and Your Games Now) literally any day now, so watch this space.
Maliszewski over at Grognardia used Death Frost Doom as a basis for his last four (!) Dwimmermount sessions. Read about those here, here, here, and here.
I had an email waiting for me when I woke up this morning, and I may be on another podcast very soon. More information as things are finalized and they actually happen.
I'm going through the Green Devil Face #4 stuff and formatting that, so there should be some sort of news there soon as well.
Maliszewski over at Grognardia used Death Frost Doom as a basis for his last four (!) Dwimmermount sessions. Read about those here, here, here, and here.
I had an email waiting for me when I woke up this morning, and I may be on another podcast very soon. More information as things are finalized and they actually happen.
I'm going through the Green Devil Face #4 stuff and formatting that, so there should be some sort of news there soon as well.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Another Grinding Gear review!
I'm hoping the German vendor has the thing available for sale today, and depending on the postal service I'm hoping Noble Knight has it by Monday at the latest.
In the meantime, Zak from Playing D&D with Porn Stars has as review of The Grinding Gear here.
In the meantime, Zak from Playing D&D with Porn Stars has as review of The Grinding Gear here.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
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