Goodman Games solicits input

[Snoweel]

Didn't joethelawyer leave ENWorld of his own volition, and make quite a big deal about it as well? Or am I thinking of someone else?

I think that was joethecabdriver.

 

[DaveyJones]

I think that was joethecabdriver.

i miss dave trampier.

mostly i just miss wormy.

 

[BryonD]

No, that's the opposite of what it would indicate.

Each different game you cater to is energy and resources expended on your part. Given that it probably takes about as much energy to produce an adventure in any one system as another, the smart thing to do would be to produce adventures for the largest available group of consumers willing to buy your products. Assuming that 4e consumers are willing to buy 3pp adventures (which the chart doesn't indicate either way on), catering to 4e is the smart way to go. If that audience cannot sustain your business model, you can consider expanding to a second game system as long as the effort put into that expansion is outweighed by the gain in business.

Do you have any sense of how many Paizo AP units have been sold to 4E fans as a result of your conversions?

 

[Umbran]

Windjammer, you've been around for over a year, but have a low postcount, so you get a warning (and the rest of the tread gets a reminder):

The Rules of EN World are very clear on one point - if you have a problem with moderation TAKE IT TO E-MAIL or PM. Do not, under any circumstances, start arguing with a mod in-thread over it. Doing so is a fast route to a vacation from the site. The addresses of all the mods are in a post stickied to the top of the Meta Forum.

 

[DaveyJones]

Wait, what's Obsidian Portal? Do you mean Obsidian Twilight?

Crazy rants aside (because "why should non-publisher gamers be the only ones allowed to let loose every once in awhile with the nerd rage?" is my philosophy) Obsidian Twilight has been looking kind of cool...

Edit: Nevermind - figured it out.

Obsidian Portal was a nominee and winner from the ENnies last year. it is a gaming site kinda along the lines of wiki. check them out.

 

[Dannager]

Except that all those systems except 4E are open. None of them has a character builder that can't include third-party material, or a DDI that excludes non-WotC publishers.

The most popular game has an audience locked into a stream of products from the chief publisher, with outside publishers discriminated against, while the others are a free for all, and hence a wider market.

Except we're talking about adventures, not player rules supplements. None of WotC's digital products discriminate against 3rd party adventures, and if you're worried about the Monster Builder encroaching on your territory, simply stat up your monsters in the Monster Builder and release them as a pack of files! Now, instead of having to deal with people avoiding your product because of D&D Insider offerings, you can now tout its integration with D&D Insider as a selling point!

 

[jdrakeh]

Didn't joethelawyer leave ENWorld of his own volition, and make quite a big deal about it as well?

Yep. Because site staffers are all hypocrites with no manhood.

 

[Dannager]

Do you have any sense of how many Paizo AP units have been sold to 4E fans as a result of your conversions?

I don't. There have been thousands of downloads of my conversion documents so far, but I can't begin to predict how many of those people have actually run games from them, much less how many people went out and bought the original adventures after seeing my conversions.

 

[rogueattorney]

I have and love the two Points of Light books.

I am very much looking forward to the Dungeon Alphabet book.

I posted my conversion of DCC #11 to B/X D&D right here.

Anyone who looks at that conversion I did will see I'm pretty nit-picky with my conversions. I don't like to eyeball it. For that reason, I'd prefer a generic sort of stat block (example: "3 orcs, chain mail, spears") over a particular system. I particularly sensitive about how much of a product I'm purchasing is composed of stat blocks of a system I don't use. Some 3.x products were quite literally 50% useless (to me) stat block.

If you Goodman to publish adventures with the same sort of generic notations as found in the PoL series, I'd certainly purchase them.

 

[Wayside]

Except that all those systems except 4E are open. None of them has a character builder that can't include third-party material, or a DDI that excludes non-WotC publishers.

None of them has a Character Builder or a DDI at all.