The 2019 Digital W23 Speculation and Discussion Thread

[Refplace]

Rumor pages updated, looks like James Howard is the author for the Disasters item.

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Now were rolling!
The DF Monsters 2 Kickstarter starts on Monday!
Monster Hunters: Power ups 1 now has a title and starts playtest next Friday, when the current one ends.

[lachimba]

No Pyramid really makes a difference in number of releases.

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I updated the rumors list, sorry I skimped some the past few weeks but submitted my final draft today.
I think tomorrow is Kromms DF 2 item and April will be The Pyramid Dungeon Collection. Progress was made on other items, and we should be having the playtest for Kelley Pedersons Social Engineering item next month. Maybe even Bills High Tech item as well.

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by Refplace

I think tomorrow is Kromms DF 2 item

If there even is a release.

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Originally Posted by Rasputin

If there even is a release.

Yeah,its not looking good at this point. I keep refreshing W23 though. I think we have had a couple of evening releases due to problems in the past.

[Raekai]

Last year, we had "7 new GURPS supplements, 3 DFRPG Releases, 2 new non-GURPS items, 11 issues of Pyramid, 1 GURPS Classic items (Including magazine bundles), and 0 non-GURPS Classic items (e.g., Car Wars). 1 new Third party GURPS item".

I've been thinking about the releases this year, and I'm going to guess that we'll end the year with 10 new GURPS supplements (including the two we've had thus far), 1 DFRPG release (which is DFRPG Monsters 2), 1 issues of Pyramid (the DF collection counts, right?), and 2 new 3rd-party GURPS items (including The Citadel at Norðvorn).

Because I'm going to guess that we're going to see a new full-fledged GURPS supplement every 5 weeks, we'll see the Pyramid Dungeon Collection soon, and I have a feeling that Douglas Cole will keep himself busy with new content for me. I mean... us. So, if I'm right, that'd be trading the monthly Pyramid magazine for 3 extra GURPS supplements this year, which... doesn't seem right. But I'm so prepared to eat my words! I'd rather guess low. Plus, I really can't say I know much of anything about the process and the time and the resources surrounding all of these things. Furthermore, GURPS supplements can be quite variable in length.

Alright, well I'm going to go scratch off another lottery ticket for GURPS. I'll show them that there's demand by creating my own...

[Proteus]

On a nit-picky formatting note, since the point of this thread is (hopefully) to talk about when new products are released more than when they’re not, could the first-page listing collapse out all the blank entries for (so far) January through March, leaving only the actual release dates, with empty spaces only for the future? That would seem to me both more readable and more positive.

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Originally Posted by Proteus

On a nit-picky formatting note, since the point of this thread is (hopefully) to talk about when new products are released more than when they’re not, could the first-page listing collapse out all the blank entries for (so far) January through March, leaving only the actual release dates, with empty spaces only for the future? That would seem to me both more readable and more positive.

I could do that if anyone can show me the spoiler or hide tag, or if this test works.

Spoiler:  

test

Ok that worked.

[Refplace]

Originally Posted by Raekai

Last year, we had "7 new GURPS supplements, 3 DFRPG Releases, 2 new non-GURPS items, 11 issues of Pyramid, 1 GURPS Classic items (Including magazine bundles), and 0 non-GURPS Classic items (e.g., Car Wars). 1 new Third party GURPS item".

I've been thinking about the releases this year, and I'm going to guess that we'll end the year with 10 new GURPS supplements (including the two we've had thus far), 1 DFRPG release (which is DFRPG Monsters 2), 1 issues of Pyramid (the DF collection counts, right?), and 2 new 3rd-party GURPS items (including The Citadel at Norðvorn).

I think your pretty close, just looking at the list we have 23 separate items not counting the vaporware or eternal holds.
Douglas has 4 or 3 Third Party depending. Citadel and 2 named adventures plus that mini supplement Dungeon Grappling.

With TFT coming in I expect that to draw off some of the art/layout resources, but Douglas is doing some of those himself. I think 5 TFT adventures are being done in house,
I think we might get to two RPG releases a month, though that wont be all GURPS. As was said above the Pyramid cancellation wasn't really decided and announced till this years stuff was already in the works. Also the playtest queue was in a holding pattern for several months and I think the kickstarter had something to do with that. I am sure there is quite a bit of prep work that had to be done by various people before one even starts.

If I'm right we should be hearing about the next playtest very soon now.
We also as of today have 2 GURPS and 1 TFT item pretty much ready to be released