D&D 4E Who plans to publish 4e stuff? I do!

[Spinachcat]

I am excited about the GSL announcement. I was going to publish a 3.x setting book back in 2002, but I never grokked to 3e. The match of my setting to that system did not work for me and if it doesn't work for the writer, it sure ain't gonna work for the reader. However, what I have seen so far with 4e makes me want to release a D&D setting book. Time to dust off them notes!

So how many of you are chomping at the bit to publish your own 4e stuff?

 

[Bayonet_Chris]

Publishing

Currently I'm planning on running the first two adventures I plan to publish at Origins this year. We'll see how that goes, considering they can't actually be published until well after that.

 

[Nine Hands]

I'd love to write some stuff for 4th Edition but I have a feeling the market is going to explode once anyone can use the GSL. I'll look into it later in the year I think.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

My forté is magic items. I fully intend on writing a pdf chock full of 4E magic items and publishing it myself.

 

[Cmarco]

I am currently working on a 200+ page campaign guide for my home game. I would love to see it published as a full-blown 4e setting (we've been running campaigns in this setting since 2e, but I just want to codify it). I have every confidence that it would be a great published setting, but that's probably a long way off

 

[RandomCitizenX]

I have some ideas about possible 4e products, but my main concerns as a new publisher is to my in house system and putting it through its paces.

 

[Darrin Drader]

More than likely I'll stick with True20 for my personal projects, but do any 4E and Pathfinder work that's offered to me.

 

[Kzach]

I have a setting I've been working on for 15 years. I had a back-up failure that resulted in a loss of all of the information I'd worked on.

But it was never serious anyway. And with 4e coming, I thought it would be a good time to revamp and redo the whole setting from scratch anyway.

The pipe-dream is, of course, to publish it. I've got a rough timeline of about 18 months and I reckon if I'm not ready to publish by then, I never will be.

I guess we'll see.

 

[I'm A Banana]

I'll just take the mercenary approach, thankyouverymuch. And if no one's buying, I can always put my stuff up on a webspace somewhere and do some sort of bizarre shameless self-promotion.

 

[Pinotage]

I'm quite surprised by the number of replies for publishing a setting. Particularly if you intend to sell it.

I think publishing settings has got to be the hardest thing to sell, and the hardest thing to gain from. Getting a setting right, publishing it with art, etc. and getting it to look right is very difficult. There are a lot of settings out there, but I can bet that only a tiny fraction of them actually sell well. I'm not doubting the collective writing abilities of ENWorld members, but settings are a pain to publish or to get published. I strongly doubt that unless you have something truly original, with fantastic production value, you'll be able to make it as a publisher selling a 200 page setting.

Pinotage