Recent content by Melina.Vortex

Thanks so much for your elaborate answer. Because I am still swamped with work after the crowdfunding, I yet have to do our detailed marketing breakdown, but your numbers will also help to plan better in the future. I can just add that this time, our own Facebook ads performed better than the...

It was iNCREDIBLY warm last week. More than 40 degrees here. ARGH!!! So: now I have to review the last adventure modules before everything goes to our editor in Devon. Will look here again later!

Forgot to answer this question: Yes, 500 is the minimum printing quantity. And then you have to sell these. We printed 600 copies of our first book and still have quite a few copies sitting here. So, yes: not profitable yet.

Yup. Sitting in Germany in front of my desk. But we travelled to the UKGE from here. Yes, it was rather an investment, but I am glad we went. Just to give you an example of how things can turn out: A friend convinced me to become active on Reddit (which I did not use before.) => I posed...

First of all: Good luck on your campaign. I know how exiting and exhausting this time is! Take good care of yourself! 2. We got 45% in the first 2 days. The mid-campaign was very slow until we got a shout-out from Atlas Games and in the last 3 days, we got another 20%. 4. We're not in the USA...

(This is a re-post from r/RPGdesign. It was suggested to me, that this post would be interesting for this forum as well.) Before I dive into the lessons, a bit of context: I recently wrapped the crowdfunding phase of the second project by Vortex Verlag – a historical fantasy RPG setting that I...

Thanks so much for this detailed report. I appreciate how you took the time to go through it in such short time! ❤️

Last touches on The Straight Way Lost! Last check for inconsistencies and missing infos in the text. Tomorrow, we will replace some more hyphens by appropriate EN-dashes. And then we're done! If all goes well, TSWL goes to the printer by the end of the week. What a huge endeavour this has been.

Last touches on The Straight Way Lost! Last check for inconsistencies and missing infos in the text. Tomorrow, we will replace some more hyphens by appropriate EN-dashes. And then we're done! If all goes well, TSWL goes to the printer by the end of the week. What a huge endeavour this has been.

It has been quite a ride! Our kickstarter has ended successfully. I think we did quite well for absolute newcomers by reaching more than 170% of our funding goal. Now we are starting to manage pledges and finishing the book. Delivery should start latest in November, which is also when TSWL...

Hello everybody! We are super excited. Our Kickstarter for "The Straight Way Lost" ends today at 20.00 CEST (1 p.m. Eastern). We have reached our funding goal and have unlocked a few stretch-goals along the way. We'd be happy about some more last-minute pledges from the RPG community. So...

Hello everybody! We are now live and almost funded. This is super exciting. Please visit our Kickstarter to learn more: www.kickstarter.com/projects/vortex-verlag/the-straight-way-lost-sourcebook-and-adventure-for-5e

For everyone who wants to know even more: Our team is invited to a Q&A with Dan Davenport On Discord. We'll start at 20 CEST (1:00 p.m. CST). Join us here: https://discord.gg/5eJ8BkmD7n