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I feel there are two parts to improving the situation: 1) Consumers need to be willing to pay more for quality work. It is not cheap to publish a book even digital-only, but there's still a pervading sense that PDFs have to be super cheap. As long as publishers are trying to shave their margins...

My updated event details - Time: morning Game system: Savage Worlds Event Title: Steamscapes: Across the Deccan Description: The year is 1872. Tensions between Maratha and Hyderabad are rising as each blames the other for delays in completing the final connection in the second Great Peninsular...

Put me down for a morning slot. Need to run through my new Steamscapes: Asia scenario before Gen Con. More details coming soon.

One fallout of the self-publishing trend is that a lot of people now work in this industry in relative isolation from many of the other people who also work in it. Sure, we see each other on forums and social media, but that's not the same as talking or even working with someone. Freelancing...

I don't know if anyone is on the waiting list for the private room in the afternoon, but I'd love to take it if Mark is dropping.

One other thing to consider is that as more and more people buy PDFs exclusively, publishers are looking to PDF sales to make back their investments. PDF is no longer a supplemental income, it's becoming the primary income or at least a strong secondary. So the cost of a PDF really does have to...

Although I am a small publisher, I am trying to establish a precedent of paying $0.10 per word, with half paid in advance based on maximum estimated word count. I end up having to cut corners by doing a lot of my own editing and layout and by only hiring freelancers for portions of the book (I...

And suddenly there's an explosion of sci fi. Nothing wrong with that, I hope. :) Evening slot Event Title - "Rosewood" Description - It is 2057. For five years now, the first full terraforming colony on Mars has been working steadily to convert the planet’s atmosphere to make it habitable...

As sad as I will be not to try out whatever Nathan is bringing, I will grab an afternoon slot for a Savage Worlds game. I will do the writeup in the next couple of days.

You may already know that Steamscapes is a Savage Worlds setting of gunslingers and gearsmiths, of anti-technology saboteurs and electricity gone wild. But that's not all you can find in the Steamscapes world. Soon, you will know it as a world of elephant cavalry, Japanese automaton infantry...

Hey Buzz! I was just checking Warhorn to verify, and it looks like I'm set up for a max of 4 players. I believe I had said 6, so I was wondering if you adjusted it based on the table? Anyway, please adjust if possible.

Yes, Savage Worlds covers a lot of these requirements. However, I would encourage you and your players to maybe approach your explorations with a little more flexibility. Instead of the checklist, maybe approach new systems with the question, "What does this system do well?" Since you seem to...

Updated. Thanks!

Time: Morning Game System: Savage Worlds Event Title: Steamscapes: Into the Wilds Description: Travel in the western wilds of Texas is always risky, and now that you have a very expensive piece of cargo to protect, you'll need to worry about a lot more than just saving your own hide. There are...

I also enjoy the more historical side of things. I like it when the history is realistic, even if it is then mixed with something unrealistic. There are ways of doing that without losing either aspect, as in something like Realms of Cthulhu. But I see many "historical" settings that are...

I feel bad for not picking it up, but I am swamped with writing and other prep at the moment. I promise I will be back for the next one!

I'm not sure at this point that anyone is saying you are wrong per se, Imaro. I think what I'm seeing is a lot of explaining of different perceptions. This is a problem that game designers have to face all the time: how a mechanic "feels" versus how the math actually works. It seems like this...

Imaro Maybe I don't quite understand how scarce effort is supposed to be. I have a perception that it's pretty limited within a single game session, but maybe that's not how it plays. Do you find that there's a decent balance of scarcity (to make it feel like not-every-time thing) and...