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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9246591" data-attributes="member: 5948">Reaching the audience is the key, as you say.&nbsp; There's been a few attempts in that direction.&nbsp; Good Society is probably the most successful, and that's entirely designed around telling Austenian stories.&nbsp; It's still very niche as a seller though - they had to run a second kickstarter a couple of years back just to get the funds together to do a reprint of the core books.&nbsp; How do you get this sort of product in front of the Regency-romance-reading audience, the bulk of which (I suspect) does not have a lot of crossover with the D&amp;D- or other RPG-playing audience?&nbsp; It'd be like trying to sell an RPG to sports fans (which is ANOTHER vast untouched potential RPG market by the way - just look at the success of the MyCareer option in the EA NBA games, or the enthusiasm for fantasy sports games).&nbsp; We've got an RPG marketing machine that's entirely aimed at the geek/genre market segment, and hasn't ever quite managed to break out of it.Dandies and Dandyzettes was another successful kickstarter in this space a year or two back, although it seems to be largely a one-person effort and is running heavily behind schedule as a result.&nbsp; And there was another big colour hardback called Regency around the same time, which sadly failed to meet its funding goal.&nbsp; There's a vast amount of people reading or watching fiction set in this time period - mostly romances, but Aubrey/Maturin, Sharpe etc are also very successful lines set in the same era - but that audience hasn't translated into RPG success.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 9246591, member: 5948"] Reaching the audience is the key, as you say. There's been a few attempts in that direction. Good Society is probably the most successful, and that's entirely designed around telling Austenian stories. It's still very niche as a seller though - they had to run a second kickstarter a couple of years back just to get the funds together to do a reprint of the core books. How do you get this sort of product in front of the Regency-romance-reading audience, the bulk of which (I suspect) does not have a lot of crossover with the D&D- or other RPG-playing audience? It'd be like trying to sell an RPG to sports fans (which is ANOTHER vast untouched potential RPG market by the way - just look at the success of the MyCareer option in the EA NBA games, or the enthusiasm for fantasy sports games). We've got an RPG marketing machine that's entirely aimed at the geek/genre market segment, and hasn't ever quite managed to break out of it. Dandies and Dandyzettes was another successful kickstarter in this space a year or two back, although it seems to be largely a one-person effort and is running heavily behind schedule as a result. And there was another big colour hardback called Regency around the same time, which sadly failed to meet its funding goal. There's a vast amount of people reading or watching fiction set in this time period - mostly romances, but Aubrey/Maturin, Sharpe etc are also very successful lines set in the same era - but that audience hasn't translated into RPG success. [/QUOTE]

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