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<blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6049545" data-attributes="member: 50895"><p>It's a bit crowded, but most of the 3PPs seem to be doing well, though I only follow the top 3PPs, not all of them. I do freelance cartography for several and they continue to pay me.</p><p> </p><p>Kickstarter is just a method of funding, like getting a loan at the bank - it's only a source of money, not simply a fad.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>Well my work with Rite Publishing includes developing a setting (Kaidan - Japanese horror), supplements and adventure material - we've released 5 adventures so far for it, with one more coming soon, and I'm currently building a map product with pre-built complex encounters ready to insert into any game or existing adventure, but not an adventure itself.</p><p> </p><p>I can't create material for Golarian, not officially, if I do Paizo has a chance of owning it, and not the 3PP I work with, so it's very unlikely to see supplements and adventures for other companies game settings. If a publisher doesn't create adventures for their settings, they can't really design adventures for settings of other publishers. Some 3PPs can work together, but not like Paizo and a small 3PP.</p><p> </p><p>If you're expecting adventures published for a Paizo or WotC established setting, you're unlikely to ever see that. An adventure would have to be so generic that it could fit any setting, and we publisher/freelancer want to create custom material, not vanilla adventures.</p><p> </p><p>Those 3PPs creating non-adventure supplements like new alternate and class archetypes, feat books, spell books, monster books on the other hand can be used in most any setting, this is probably the majority of work being done by small publishers - because they can be used in any setting, even Paizo default setting.</p><p></p><p>Is their work for freelancers? Definitely. Consider that I didn't become a freelancer until after Paizo published Pathfinder - so I'm not a long time veteran in the industry, yet I do get commissioned for work all the time from many 3PPs to Paizo itself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gamerprinter, post: 6049545, member: 50895"] It's a bit crowded, but most of the 3PPs seem to be doing well, though I only follow the top 3PPs, not all of them. I do freelance cartography for several and they continue to pay me. Kickstarter is just a method of funding, like getting a loan at the bank - it's only a source of money, not simply a fad. Well my work with Rite Publishing includes developing a setting (Kaidan - Japanese horror), supplements and adventure material - we've released 5 adventures so far for it, with one more coming soon, and I'm currently building a map product with pre-built complex encounters ready to insert into any game or existing adventure, but not an adventure itself. I can't create material for Golarian, not officially, if I do Paizo has a chance of owning it, and not the 3PP I work with, so it's very unlikely to see supplements and adventures for other companies game settings. If a publisher doesn't create adventures for their settings, they can't really design adventures for settings of other publishers. Some 3PPs can work together, but not like Paizo and a small 3PP. If you're expecting adventures published for a Paizo or WotC established setting, you're unlikely to ever see that. An adventure would have to be so generic that it could fit any setting, and we publisher/freelancer want to create custom material, not vanilla adventures. Those 3PPs creating non-adventure supplements like new alternate and class archetypes, feat books, spell books, monster books on the other hand can be used in most any setting, this is probably the majority of work being done by small publishers - because they can be used in any setting, even Paizo default setting. Is their work for freelancers? Definitely. Consider that I didn't become a freelancer until after Paizo published Pathfinder - so I'm not a long time veteran in the industry, yet I do get commissioned for work all the time from many 3PPs to Paizo itself. [/QUOTE]
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