From the Ground Up - Building a Game Company

[Qwillion]

Work work work

Today I put in my regular day of overtime, (funny how your regular work day includes overtime lol), and I have some weeds to kill around the house.

yet I am going to be working on finishing up a piece called the Unsighted and send that off to my illustrious editor, as I sent him a piece yesterday. I should be able to send him a piece a day, every day this month.

Oh here is something for you behind the scenes folk, you ever know someone for quite some time and not really know they have a secret skill for drawing. Well that is how I got to work with my current artist.

Here is the piece that sold me on using her as my artist. (now this she did at work on her breaks and lunch time with just, low quality printer paper and ball point pen.) The picture is the skeleton of a monster called th soarlith.

 

[Qwillion]

Yet even more work, and the new pdf options

boy some days balancing my day job with writing is difficut.

But on the happy side we now have a choice of PDF venures to sell from.

I may not like the new company, but at least it is an option. I was always supprised that enworld did not offer an alternative to Rpgnow, in the end any break from a monopoly is good for the consumer and good for us because I can say to rpgnow hey I can go over here or tell the other guy the same thing. I await the day when wizards opens its own pdf publishign house Randy will have much more to say on this I am sure when we get closer to publication. Ran

I am just dead tired today but I did get a very original idea for a plant-based monster today I will have to flesh it out tommorow, I want to write but I don't think falling asleep at work would look good.

Oh and randy said some very nice things about my work the other day,

"Steven, sometimes you are magical!... damn do these beasties grab you...can only smile at the creepy baddies you are coming up with. Rock on big dog!"

Nothing like praise from you boss to make you feel good and work even harder.

 

[DaveStebbins]

I may not like the new company, but at least it is an option. I was always supprised that enworld did not offer an alternative to Rpgnow, in the end any break from a monopoly is good for the consumer and good for us because I can say to rpgnow hey I can go over here or tell the other guy the same thing.

I believe SV GAmes has been an option for some time now. I believe it even predated RPGNow.

I await the day when wizards opens its own pdf publishign house.

They tried it, even selling PDFs from their site. It failed to meet their requirements for success and they moved distribution elsewhere. If you mean you would like them to once again offer their backlist or OOP items for sale as PDFs, I would also like to see this.

 

[tensen]

I believe SV GAmes has been an option for some time now. I believe it even predated RPGNow.


They tried it, even selling PDFs from their site. It failed to meet their requirements for success and they moved distribution elsewhere. If you mean you would like them to once again offer their backlist or OOP items for sale as PDFs, I would also like to see this.

They have used SV Games... and currently use rpgnow.com for the OOP items. I think rpgnow has over 700 PDFs from Wizards of the Coast.

 

[Qwillion]

D20 Mastery

Thank you for the clarrification folks but what I was referring to was something designed to be a pdf.

Yes wizards had the sv games stuff but that was scanning print material and the costs were too high (ask jim butler of bastion press he was in charage)

The question is why was RPGnow so successful and which one should this start-up company choose for its first product.

On a personal note I was published in the first issue of the wizards.community newsletter Knowledge Arcana
you can find that article here (I wrote this back in febuary. http://wizo.wizards.com/ka/spring04/page13.php

You should also see our first free piece here in a few days on the website.
D20 Mastery will be a continuing series on the website
The first one will deal with how to prepare for a campaign session when you have nothing ready and only a half hour to prepare.

Anyone have any suggestions for other article subjects they would like to see?

 

[DaveStebbins]

If you mean you would like them to once again offer their backlist or OOP items for sale as PDFs, I would also like to see this.

They have used SV Games... and currently use rpgnow.com for the OOP items. I think rpgnow has over 700 PDFs from Wizards of the Coast.

I was referring to starting to put OOP and backlist 3E products out. They basically ended the program before any 3E stuff was scanned. I think many, many people would like to see that.

I apologize for not being more clear, and also for the minor hijack of the thread.

 

[Qwillion]

Write, Edit, and Read

I got some stuff back from the editor today, must say I really enjoy working with David "Dave" Paul

I need to make sure he posts here once or twice before he goes back to teaching english in the fall.

Dave did send along the d20 mastery article, so once Randy gets back to work on P3 we should have our first free piece.

My question is how many people read web articles that they see mentioned on the Enworld News page?

 

[DaveStebbins]

My question is how many people read web articles that they see mentioned on the Enworld News page?

The news page at EN World is always my first read when I get online at home. If the subject of a linked article is interesting, I will immediately open it in another browser window and get to it a little later.

 

[Eosin the Red]

Ok,

The DM mastery article is up.

I just pulled 14 days in a row at work. On my 2 days off, I spent 10 hours a day roofing and then did another 7 days in a row (23 days of solid work...my brain is numb). I also busted up my foot pretty good and have had trouble sitting at the computer for any length of time without the foot hurting to the high heavens. In between all of that, I began world war III at my work place and have had to go before a grievance board no small number of times. Duckies gotta be in a row there My special announcement is that I have a new job beginning the 1st of July. I will be returning to the ER to work as an RN.

What does all of this mean? Other than I have not had time to say hello to my kids, it means that I should be back into the ball game pretty quickly. Revenge of real life. Now let's see if I can get something besides a web update ddone this weekend. Officially, I am leaving myself on the injured reserve list until I don't feel like I have been beaten with the Hong stick.

 

[Qwillion]

I guess since the first one is up I will go write a second one. Don't want to get behind.

Glad to here that I am not the only one to follow an intersting thread.