11-30-2017, 07:40 PM | #11 |
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Re: Dungeon Fantasy Companion PDF
No worries. Thank you. The marketing folks should stress less: I'll be buying it either way, and I suspect most other fans will as well. So, it's one click or three to me. No dramas.
The only way they would irritate me is if they trickle them out over months--that would be really annoying! Let's get all the core goodies out there. While the adventure isn't core, Magic Items and Traps are a big boon when your players are used to D&D. I'm really excited about using DFRPG as a way of getting players to give a GURPS based system a try. While far from your first stand alone, it has broad appeal. You guys have done a great job! And the balance between "this is it's own game" and "but it's still GURPS" is a delight. As some of the older Aussies say here, "Bonza!" |
12-21-2017, 12:13 AM | #12 |
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12-22-2017, 03:38 AM | #13 |
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We're closed until January. We have no immediate plans to release the title as a PDF.
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12-22-2017, 07:12 AM | #14 |
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That's somewhat frustrating. The Automatic dungeon generator references the trap book frequently and I've had more than one person ask me where they could buy the PDF of said traps book.
I don't care if you release it as just the smaller sub volumes or as one larger book, but I'd really hope to see it sold somehow.
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12-22-2017, 07:40 AM | #15 |
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Phil was referring to the Dungeon Fantasy Companion, in the title of the thread. We have no immediate plans to release that. Rest assured that Dungeon Fantasy: Against the Rat-Men, Dungeon Fantasy Magic Items, and Dungeon Fantasy Traps all have release dates as individual PDFs in 2018 . . . we're just not sharing the dates yet.
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12-22-2017, 08:21 AM | #16 |
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oh, good. thanks!
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12-22-2017, 01:14 PM | #17 | |
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The fun of DFRPG for me is that it's not a GURPS toolkit, at least not firstly: it's a game I can pickup and just play. Everyone get's tired of being creative sometimes. From a GURPS perspective, I can see how these pdfs could be seen as "extras" or "nice to have" add-ons of marginal importance and priority, maybe even meant as pedagogical examples. But that's GURPS thinking! If your goal is Dungeon Fantasy "right here, right now", then I would argue they are core to the genre. Heck, Traps and Magic Items figured prominently in the 1st Edition DMG and every edition since. There's no way I'm POD printing my DFRPG stuff until I can slot those in. My DF pdfs will just have to sit in a dark corner of my hard drive, waiting to get played sometime in the future when some marketing guru stops sitting on the goods. Sorry, but that all seems really silly to me as a longtime customer. It's not like you need more time to get the product up to SJGame's very high standard, which I would applaud--you have them already... And you guys are in no danger of flooding the market. Come on, this game's direct competitor is WotC?!? 8^) |
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This is a small group of people with limited individual budgets; spacing releases means you aren't asking people to choose one of three PDFs to buy this month. Further, when people don't buy something immediately, they really don't tend to rush out and get it next month when their mad money refreshes, because by then something else NEW and SHINY has attracted their attention, even though it's less than 30 days newer.
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