Wait didn’t SJGames open up a bit with GURPS third party adventures? Or am I thinking of somebody else?
They did!
I'm the "Chief Everything Officer" for
Gaming Ballistic, in case you don't know me.
Shortly after GenCon 50, I made a proposal to convert a short convention-style adventure from D&D 5e+
Dungeon Grappling to the
Dungeon Fantasy RPG. I'd run a campaign for
Lost Hall of Tyr for 5e, as well as
Dragon Heresy, and so I had plenty of art, and two successful campaigns under my belt. In short: it was nearly risk free. They eventually came around and said "yes, go." I looked into the feedback I'd gotten on the adventure, and up-gunned it. In the end, it became
Hall of Judgment, expanded to 128 pages with new maps and a base setting.
It did well. So well that they let me do more.
Citadel at Nordvorn (which I will admit is the product that to this day I have enjoyed writing the most) followed that effort, followed by the four-book
Nordlond Sagas campaign.
At GameHole Con one year, I said "what more can I do for SJGames?" And Steve, in his classic laconic fashion, said "write for TFT."
Initially, I was hesitant; I'd never
played TFT. But I found some authors who had and launched the "Four Perilous Journeys" campaign, which after some looking hard at my own value proposition, became
Five Perilous Journeys mid-campaign, adding a spiffy Solo adventure
Vampire Hunter Belladonna, written by David Pulver. SJGames was ridiculously kind and provided assets that let me add
Decks of Destiny formatted cards.
The campaign did well for me. I am recently completing a second one:
More Perilous Journeys. That will go to final stages of print fulfillment in a matter of a week or two. I just need to get one final art asset on the fifth and last book. Then it will fulfill and go live for retail. I have more plans in mind for TFT as well.
I did have some advantages. They knew me, as a long-time author for Pyramid, one of their go-to choices for Lead Playtester on some of the
more popular books. A several-time Kickstarter runner with a background in project management. And a fairly popular blog that had, nearly since inception, promoted GURPS through something called
GURPSDay. That continues still, though
in RSS format, pulling from over 100 blogs whenever the authors write about things.
In any case: I've had a great time making
GURPS and
TFT materials. They're different systems (and I think rules matter), but both have a great place. I've been given permission to expand my horizons in the
Powered by GURPS space hugely with a nod to do a full RPG that's called
Mission X; it's in preliminary development and I have some very large projects (some announced, like the
Nordlond Bestiary, and some not announced, like . . . oh, wait. FNORD.) in the queue over the next few years.