Gurps Vehicles / 4th. Edition

[Tomsdad]

Originally Posted by DouglasCole

Much, much more ambitious.

No, no, drive that hook in deeper I insist ;-)!

[Dammann]

That approach seems so at odds with the rest of the way 4e has gone, with smaller supplements that are more modular in nature, getting released more often. I was hoping that this is where Kromm's disappeared to.

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by Dammann

That approach seems so at odds with the rest of the way 4e has gone, with smaller supplements that are more modular in nature, getting released more often. I was hoping that this is where Kromm's disappeared to.

Kromm does have an unspecified big writing project in progress. I doubt that it is Vehicle Design, since Kromm isn't the one who was writing Vehicle Design last I heard...

[PK]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

Kromm does have an unspecified big writing project in progress. I doubt that it is Vehicle Design, since Kromm isn't the one who was writing Vehicle Design last I heard...

Nope, that book is still firmly in David's hands.

[Seamonster]

I'm largely out of the Vehicles Design discussion loop, but will this be a physical book or simply digital?

[Mailanka]

Originally Posted by Seamonster

I'm largely out of the Vehicles Design discussion loop, but will this be a physical book or simply digital?

I'd guess digital. GURPS is shifting more and more towards digital, and Vehicles is a fairly niche product. I can't imagine they expect it to sell enough to justify the cost of a print-run of large, expensive hardbacks. If the digital sales are crazy enough, though, I bet they'd consider a print-run.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Seamonster

I'm largely out of the Vehicles Design discussion loop, but will this be a physical book or simply digital?

It's always been intended for pdf. This might be underestimating its' appeal though. Ve2 had 3 print runs I believe. At any rate it has sold far more copies than the average for 4e pdfs.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

It's always been intended for pdf. This might be underestimating its' appeal though. Ve2 had 3 print runs I believe. At any rate it has sold far more copies than the average for 4e pdfs.

People that will buy it are obviously the loudest posters. But it's about how many others will buy it that really determines its success.
3rd edition was in a different time. You can't compare modern gaming tastes, styles or business models to the past like that.
I say that being one of those that will buy it the moment it becomes available even if I have to beg, borrow, or darn near prostitute myself to get it.

[PK]

Originally Posted by Seamonster

I'm largely out of the Vehicles Design discussion loop, but will this be a physical book or simply digital?

E-book. We expect that such a long, crunchy, and complex book will have a wave or two of minor errata, so it's important that we be able to update it in real time for at least the first several months. As such, even we expected demand to be much higher than it seems to be, we'd still want to keep it digital-only at first.

After that, it'll be treated like any other GURPS e-book: if it sells especially well, it'll get added to our internal list of "books that might be worth a POD run." I realize that we haven't done such a run in a long while, but that doesn't mean we consider that option closed.

[Ashtagon]

fwiw, I'm pretty much already sold on a 4e Vehicles book for gearheads.