The 2013 e23 Releases and Speculation Thread

[Archangel Beth]

Originally Posted by robkelk

[some speculations]

I wonder if the back catalog includes "collections" from the Web incarnation of Pyramid. There's some entertaining stuff there.

[RevBob]

Originally Posted by KevinR

How well does the Everything we've ever released list work? I see some odd entries like the Compendium as both 7142 (OOP) and 30-7142 (PDF), but it seems like a possible start.

The Everything list gives everything with a stock number an entry. Since PDFs get different stock numbers, they get their own entries there. Nothing "odd" about it. Frankly, I'm more concerned about the printing number bug; notice that Munchkin shows as OOP because the first printing is long gone. Never mind that a later printing is available...

[robkelk]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

All of the the rules are already available as free Pdfs.

The rules, yes. The cards themselves... not so much.

[robkelk]

Originally Posted by Archangel Beth

I wonder if the back catalog includes "collections" from the Web incarnation of Pyramid. There's some entertaining stuff there.

Somebody would need to edit them into compilations...

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by robkelk

The rules, yes. The cards themselves... not so much.

Given that you aren't allowed to quote card text on the internets, I'm fairly sure they aren't ever going to put the card images in pdf (as long as the game is still in-print anyway).

[Andrew Hackard]

We have no plans to release card games on e23, and certainly not games that are currently available and selling very well.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by DouglasCole

While this is certainly true, I suspect there's a backlog of writerstuff waiting to be submitted. I know I'm sitting on two or three ideas that I've yet to submit (granted, they might get shot down) due to the general instructions to chill out until the blockage is cleared.

Yeah, but it takes much more than a week for a GURPS book to go from query to e23. At some point the OOP stuff is all going to be in there. I'm just not seeing how even if you (and Matt, and Bill, and so on) are as prolific as possible that there's going to be a new GURPS release every week. There just aren't 40 new GURPS books a year.

[KevinR]

Once everything is in PDF and people are sitting idle, they could start converting to epub or whatever ebook format wins out...

[robkelk]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Yeah, but it takes much more than a week for a GURPS book to go from query to e23. At some point the OOP stuff is all going to be in there. I'm just not seeing how even if you (and Matt, and Bill, and so on) are as prolific as possible that there's going to be a new GURPS release every week. There just aren't 40 new GURPS books a year.

Well, they'd only need 38 new releases, not 40 - I've never seen e23 publish in the weeks of July 4 or December 25.

But there's no reason every release has to be a GURPS release; I can think of over two dozen possible In Nomine releases off the top of my head, including a collection of the Pyramid version 2 articles for the game. (List here.)

For that matter, they don't even need to be RPG releases - I could see e23 releasing a new pocket-box / magazine-insert / Cheapass-Games style small boardgame once a year.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by robkelk

Well, they'd only need 38 new releases, not 40 - I've never seen e23 publish in the weeks of July 4 or December 25.

Yeah, I already pointed out that SJGames already lets that happen. I'm not really sure I understand what Kromm was saying about them not doing that.

But there's no reason every release has to be a GURPS release; I can think of over two dozen possible In Nomine releases off the top of my head, including a collection of the Pyramid version 2 articles for the game. (List here.)

For that matter, they don't even need to be RPG releases - I could see e23 releasing a new pocket-box / magazine-insert / Cheapass-Games style small boardgame once a year.

Won't those things take as much (or more) time to produce as GURPS books? Are there really 40 (or 38) new things each year just sitting around waiting to go out the door?