Recent content by Pelgrane

Hi, the pricing has clearly caused some confusion, for which I apologise. The High Magic and Low Cunning print book is $30 - not $40. It includes the PDF of the book and the PDF of all the maps in full colour (the Map Folio). The book is a 192 page softcover. We are also offering a bundle...

Thanks for your kind words - it's selling well! The maps aren't intended for miniatures, but to help the players picture the terrain and environment. When I ran this last year for my group, having the printed out full colour map in the center of the table really helped.

High Magic and Low Cunning is 192 pages in print, with the PDF included, as well as the PDF of the map folio. It includes 45 battles scenes like the one above. The book is $30. If you want the map folio in print form, loose, letter size, with both GM and player maps, it's an additional $10...

*bows* I will write more stuff about stuff if Morrus deems it worthwhile.

The main point of retail for us is that we couldn't easily do beautiful hardback books or acquire new players without retailers. That's why we do FreeRPGDay, and why we've signed up to the Envoy demo program. For some lines (eg 13th Age) retail is very much more important.

Overall, our margins are very slim, which is why we are concentrating our energy on selling more books this year. However, If I'd shown the figures for an early Trail such as Graham Walmsley's Purist adventures, it would look quite different, and our core books do much better, selling thousands...

No, they really don't. Artists get paid poorly, too, and there are even more artists approaching us than there are writers - an average of one a day.

It depends on the narrative function of the NPCs. If they are for fighting, then you need the stats - adapted monster stats are good. I'd like to do an NPC building guide with pre-built NPCs. If they are for more than fighting then I use "three things" - three distinctive things about the NPC...

A few... A dwarven ranger who is the motile unit for a Koru behemoth A half-elven assassin whose shadow is hunting him down An elven sorceror whose heart is clockwork fashioned by the Dwarf Lord A human paladin who was hatched from an egg A drow wizard who killed the 14th icon

It's our intention to do this. I don't know when it will happen, though.

Amazon undercuts FLGS hugely, is happy to loss-lead, plus they want distributor-level discounts and free shipping. So, we have no plans to distribute it on Amazon, but you can be certain that someone will offer it through Amazon.

This mechanic is just for redcaps. I'd probably use it for certain kinds of demons.

Very happy that 13th Age has its very own tag, and proud it's been rolled into the Pathinfinder / D&D / OGL section of enworld. Manabarbs, that is an excllent summary.

A blind gamer pointed out that he or she found this unhelpful. So, here is the list in text form, lowest to highest. Torchbearer Hillfolk Fate Firefly Call of Cthulhu Shadowrun Edge of the Empire Numenera 13th Age Edit: Pleased and excited that two Pelgrane books are listed in this august company!

Clearly, 13th Age needs its own forum ;)