The 2019 Digital W23 Speculation and Discussion Thread

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In the glorious tradition of digital speculation welcome to the 11th annual w23 Digital releases and speculation thread!
This series of threads was started by SCAR for 2009, Jalapeno Dude for 2010, 2011, 2012, Ghostdancer for 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016, Refplace 2017, 2018
Some Digital RPG indexes include the Pyramid Volume 3 Index by RogerBW and the Pyramid Magic Issues Index by Refplace, the Official GURPS Book list and the InNomine page
Guesses for the release day are in Green text.
POD on CreateSpace: Full Page listing all the GURPS Pod books
The CreateSpace option is another venue and makes some out of print physical copies available to us again. It is a new feature started at the end of 2016 and seems to be expanding nicely.
And what we all hope will lead to more exposure for GURPS some books are now available on Drivethrough RPG

Also checkout the Gift option now available!
This year I expect to see several TFT releases so its getting a counter at the bottom of the main post, along with the GURPS line. Sadly Pyramid will no longer be released so this is likely to have less topics.
On the upside Third Party licencing is set up for TFT and Douglas Cole at Gaming Ballistic released a successful third party adventure for GURPS last year and plans more so that will also be included here.
The Citadel at Nordvorn is his next announced one, Ill add it into the regular chain at the end of the year
Items in Seagreen below are speculated to release on that date.

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Jan 3
Jan 10
Jan 17 GURPS Action 5: Dictionary of Danger and the Discussion thread
Jan 24
Jan 31
Feb 7
Feb 14
Feb 21
Feb 28 GURPS Steampunk 3: Soldiers and Scientists
March 7
March 14
March 21
March 28
April 4
April 11
April 18 GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 20: Slayers also not a Digital Relwase but the TFT Legacy Edition box and pocket boxes came out. Slayers Discussion thread
April 25 Car Wars Classic Arenas
May 2 TFT Adventure: Fire in the Temple
May 9
May 16 TFT Adventure: The Clockwork Tower
May 23 GURPS Powers: Totem and Nature Spirits
May 30 TFT Adventure: Tomb of the Wizard-King
June 6
June 13 Floor Plan 1:Haunted House a map and cardboard hero supplement
June 20 Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 2 AND Dungeon Fantasy Treasures 3: Artifacts of Felltower
June 27 Floor Plan 3: Underground Lab
July 1 The Fantasy Trip Hexagram #1 Magazine
July 4
July 11 Floor Plan 4: Mall of the Dead GURPS Classic: Supers TFT Companion
July 18 TFT Magazine Hexagram #2 and GURPS Monster Hunters Power-Ups 1
July 25
Aug 1 GURPS Template Toolkit 2: Races and the official discussion thread
Aug 8
Aug 15
Aug 22 Ogrezine II and GURPS Social Engineering: Keeping in Contact
Aug 29 GURPS Prime Directive, Revised Vol 1 and Vol 2 is up. See the listing of W23 Prime Directive products. The new edition is available bundled or as separate volumes
Sep 5
Sep 12 GURPS Classic Villains
Sep 19 GURPS Sorcery: Sound Spells The Discussion thread. Also Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 2 and Pyramid Dungeon Collection have shipped, no W23 entry yet.
Sep 26
Oct 3 GURPS Classic: Vehicles Lite
Oct 10
Oct 17 GURPS High Tech: Electricity and Electronics
Oct 24
Oct 31 GURPS Classic: Horror GMs Screen is out for Halloween! and Dungeon Fantasy: Magic Items 2 on W23 ends Oct.
Nov 7
Nov 14
Nov 21 GURPS Power-Ups 9: Alternate Attributes
Nov 28 The Fantasy Trip Adventures on W23 and Space Gamer Ogre Bundle (subset of the previously released Space Gamer Bundle)


Dec 5 Pyramid Dungeon Collection previously released through Kickstarter, now on W23!
Dec 12 GURPS Classic Best of Pyramid 1 GURPS In Nomine POD release
Dec 19 GURPS Disasters: Hurricanes
Dec 26


So far in 2019, there have been the following Steve Jackson Games digital releases: 13 new GURPS supplements, 2 DFRPG Releases, 6 GURPS Classic items (Including magazine bundles), 5 new TFT items, 2 new non-GURPS items, and 1 non-GURPS Classic items (e.g., Car Wars). Third party items include 0 for GURPS and 0 for TFT

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Indexing/Proofing/Prepress Checking

• Citadel at Nordvorn (by Douglas Cole): DF item, should enter crowdfunding in first quarter of 2019; General description; Excerpts and shared details.; full length (64-128 page) adventure; Expected May PDF and Aug print release; Funded. (Total hints: 6 as of 03/24/2019)
• DF item Dungeon Grappling (by Douglas Cole): Might or not be the item Kromm referred to; One short Dungeon Fantasy item for those that want refined, short grappling rules but dont want to bother with Technical Grappling, also for DF the Dungeon Fantasy RPG. Will be 8 pages; was part f the Citedel of Nordvorn and the DF Monsters 2 kickstarters. (Total hints: 3 as of 03/26/2019)

Art/Layout

• DF Nordlander Folk (by Douglas Cole): Part of the kickstarter for Nordland Sagas. (Total hints: 1 as of 09/12/2019)
• GURPS Vehicles Transports of Fantasy (by Phil Masters): With author to write first draft. First-draft deadline March 4, 2019.; received first draft; First draft awaits editorial review; 70% of the way through review of the first draft.; Finished my review of the first draft; In peer review; has been reviewed and is with its author to turn into a final draft; final draft in; In Production, ETA January; Approved art. (Total hints: 10 as of 12/19/2019)

Editing

• TFT adventure item (by Unknown author): in editing. (Total hints: 1 as of 01/01/2019)
• TFT adventure item (by Unknown): In editing. (Total hints: 1 as of 01/01/2019)
• Second Dungeon Fantasy setting (by Matt Riggsby): Signed a freelancer to write another Dungeon Fantasy setting volume.; First draft in.; In peer review; Final draft in house and waiting on editing. (Total hints: 4 as of 11/27/2019)

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Final Draft

• Girl Genius Sourcebook and RPG (by Jason "PK" Levine and others): PK editing existing text and writing more, aiming for 2013 release as of May 27th; is on administrative hold; In Production, not sure when this page was made; Brief history of project by Kromm; word of mouth that its moving forward again; Becoming a reality! Lookedover the manuscript from SJG added stuff and about ready to send it back to SJG.; Turned in finished manuscript. (Total hints: 7 as of 10/22/2019)
• GURPS Vehicle Design (by David Pulver): Being discussed by Kromm as of January 7th, 2011; major revised draft undergoing extensive playtest and multiple revisions as of December 30th, 2010; final draft in early 2011 probable; final problems solved and possible book expected in mid-2013; needs 3-4 weeks of time; David Pulver plans on "devoting time" to this book; David has been advised on style issues; has seen more progress; David has sent in a near finished draft; has seen some movement; has lurched forward some; still being revised; David Pulver posted manuscript submitted late 2017; staff confirmation and discussion about the manuscript. Do not expect this anytime soon. (Total hints: 14 as of 05/24/2018)
• GURPS Tactical Shooting Extreme Conditions (by Hans-Christian Vortisch): a serialized version of one of his past publications; an expansion to Tactical Shooting; started review on first draft; first draft review done; title released, playtest solicited; playtest complete; post-playtest revision; still working on final draft; still working on final draft; With author for final draft. (Total hints: 10 as of 02/20/2019)

Playtesting/Peer Review/Staff Review

• GURPS Realm Management (by Christopher Rice): Has a signed contract, on the backburner for a bit while work on smaller projects; I began brainstorming some more on my bigger GURPS project (which I'm going to call 'SNO-51' from now on) and doing some more outline work. Lots of red string. Lots of index cards. I think it'll prove rather interesting to some gamers.; I outlined and contracted a new GURPS volume. Codenamed "SNO-51" this is something gamers have asked for repeatedly, but has not yet been done for GURPS.; finished the first draft.; Asked for another extension and at 64 percent editing mark.; First draft sent in; First draft is in and awaiting editorial review.; Sending in revised draft on Monday; Preparing for playtest, expect that to start in mid December.; Should be hitting playtest soon. May be of great interest to world builders; Playtest call and title announced. (Total hints: 11 as of 12/15/2019)
• GURPS Hotspots item (by Randy Huegele): With author to write first draft. First-draft deadline March 4, 2019.; first draft waiting editorial review; In editorial review; With the author for revision. (Total hints: 4 as of 11/27/2019)

First Draft

• Dungeon Fantasy Companion 2 (by Sean Punch): Made fair progress on a current writing project.; Phil Reed let slip the title. (Total hints: 2 as of 12/05/2019)
• Marl Ankh-3 (by Christopher Rice): is being edited and revised, currently at the 23% mark. Jan deadline is well within reach.; Editing and being revised, about 77% mark. Jan deadline well within reach.. (Total hints: 2 as of 12/05/2019)
• Calypso-4 a TFT adventure 'Five Perilous Journeys' with J Edward Tremlett (by Christopher Rice): Calypso-4 is two fifths of the way turned in with my writing partner J. Edward Tremlett currently working on number three. Were shooting for finished work by August 1 that is basically one adventure per month. We can do that.; Adventure 4 should be done by mid August, has some art and hopefully last written in Oct.. (Total hints: 2 as of 08/02/2019)
• Unknown (by William Stoddard): Contract sent in and signed. Book been thinking about a long time.; First draft in. A followup of sorts to a previous project, with a large bibliography.; Started review of most recent revised draft.. (Total hints: 3 as of 12/05/2019)
• DF adventure The Dragons of Rosgarth (by Douglas Cole): Has a contract; full length (64-128 page) Nordlond adventures/mini-settings for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG; crowdfund June 19 PDFin Aug Print release in Nov; Title announcement. (Total hints: 4 as of 03/26/2019)
• DF adventure Forests End (by Douglas Cole): Has a contract; full length (64-128 page) Nordlond adventures/mini-settings for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG; crowdfund in Aug PDF in Oct Print release in jan 2020. (Total hints: 3 as of 01/29/2019)
• TFT adventure Group 1 (by Douglas Cole): crowdfund in April PDF in June Print starts in Sept. This is a batch of 4 adventures; Kickstarter launched. (Total hints: 2 as of 05/07/2019)

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Entered the Pipeline/Outline

• The Mostly Kromm Rumors Section (by Steve Jackson Games): signed a contract; We fielded (and approved) some more proposals.; corresponded with writers regarding yet more proposals; I corresponded with yet more writers regarding even more proposals; 7 more unamed projects contracted for and being written, and a couple more dealing with hurdles; One first draft awaiting review and seven more in the process of being written, plus two or three things that are to slow moving to make plans around; The first of many first drafts expected in 2019 arrived this week, and I've started my review. Reviewed first draft of 2019; 90 percent through first draft started last week. Approved a new proposal, Steven is drafting the contract now.; I concluded the lengthy first-draft review I was working on The authors are now revising their manuscript; We contracted a freelancer for yet another project I can't tell you who or what just yet, but I can say it'll turn a series into a series by providing a second volume to something that was stuck at 1 for a long time; A rare inside look; reviewed several queries and proposals; Reviewed several queries and proposals and approved another project for contracting.; Reviewed and approved another proposal.; Steven and I discussed the release schedule. We have things slated for November, December, and January.. (Total hints: 15 as of 10/17/2019)
• The Gaming Ballistic Rumors Section (by Douglas Cole): Reached agreement to produce from 4 to 10 TFT adventures in PDF. Three full length (64-128 page) Nordlond adventures/mini-settings for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG; Planned release schedule for 2019. (Total hints: 2 as of 01/29/2019)
• Unknown GURPS item Volume 1 (by David Pulver): I'm not doing anything called Template Toolkit, though besides the TFT stuff and GURPS Vehicle Design, and one of the books in the Indefinite Hold section, I do have two other non-TFT books not mentioned in the list that I'm working on.; Volume 1 With author to write first draft. First-draft deadline April 29, 2019.. (Total hints: 2 as of 02/20/2019)
• Unknown GURPS item Volume 2 (by David Pulver): I do have two other non-TFT books not mentioned in the list that I'm working on.; Volume 2 With author to write first draft. First-draft deadline June 3, 2019.. (Total hints: 2 as of 02/20/2019)
• DF Nordlander Bestiary (by Douglas Cole): A bestiary for the Nordland setting. (Total hints: 1 as of 09/07/2019)
• TFT adventure Group 2 (by Douglas Cole): crowdfund in Oct PDF in Dec Print run starts in March. This is a batch of 4 adventures. (Total hints: 1 as of 01/29/2019)
• GURPS Sorcery item, might be two in queue based on Andrew Hackards post (by Unknown): We signed a contract for another volume in the GURPS Sorcery series.. (Total hints: 1 as of 02/21/2019)
• Redacted (by Redacted): With author to write first draft. First-draft deadline May 13, 2019.. (Total hints: 1 as of 02/20/2019)
• DF Denizens item (by Unknown): Signed a contract for another item in the DF Denizens sub series.. (Total hints: 1 as of 09/12/2019)

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On Indefinite Hold/Rumor/Unknown/Vaporware

• Unknown GURPS 4th edition conversion (by Jason "PK" Levine): probably unknown item in prepress as of January GURPS News; edited draft submitted as of March 25th, 2011; Unverified speculation this is a conversion of All in a Night's Work. (Total hints: 3 as of 12/03/2013)
• GURPS IST (by Bob Schroeck): is tentative, but looks like its in the pipeline. (Total hints: 1 as of 12/22/2015)
• GURPS Armourer's Handbook (by unknown): while the title is known it's still 'vaporware'; might see a release near Vehicle Design; working on one of the books in the Indefinite Hold section.. (Total hints: 3 as of 01/25/2019)
• GURPS Bestiary (by unknown): March 19th, 2010: "the wheel turned another few degrees on GURPS Bestiary this week. It isn't just parked"; made more progress on 4/30/10; coming quite soon. (Total hints: 3 as of 02/19/2016)
• Unnamed Project (by unknown): A book about what to do in your vehicle (vs. vehicle design). Tentative titles: GURPS Vehicle Action or GURPS Vehicles in Action as seen here; working on one of the books in the Indefinite Hold section.. (Total hints: 2 as of 01/25/2019)

That's 28 possible future releases that have been discussed thus far (this does not include entries under the on indefinite hold/rumor/vaporware heading).

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by Refplace

Some updates.
I finished the setup for 2019 and added a update from Christopher Rice.
He made some nice hints and clarifications on his blog.
https://www.ravensnpennies.com/carpe...december-2018/

I especially appreciate his comment on that small contract which let me clear it from the list and his internal reference name for one of his two outstanding items.
An author designation like that can really help keep the spec list straight!
Eventually I will know what to merge from Kromm and the authors blogs (if any). Too often we have had to just guess and had previously published left on the list as unpublished.
Thank you very much Christopher!

It's hard to keep track of nameless projects. I know that from my time on the block. Glad it's proving helpful. (It's harder trying to give hints without giving the whole thing away.)

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Originally Posted by Christopher R. Rice

It's hard to keep track of nameless projects. I know that from my time on the block. Glad it's proving helpful. (It's harder trying to give hints without giving the whole thing away.)

I thought your time on the thread might have had an influence :)
Douglas didnt take the hint yet <g>, but labeling them DF items will help.
Speaking, my apologies Douglas but the script doesn't like accent marks so your title for Citadel at Norðvörn had to leave them out in the spec post.
And yes I tried quotes.
Thats 17 items listed in the pipeline and I think we have a couple more under the "signed multiple contracts" hints from Kromm.
I will also miss PK greatly but maybe we will still see him a an author, he does have that unknown Fourth Edition conversion he was working on, though I suspect work was stopped on it.

EDIT
So I did a blog post and got to thinking, with Pyramid no longer on his plate anyone think we may see VDS this year? Or a new item from Mr. Pulver instead?

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Originally Posted by Refplace

Douglas didnt take the hint yet <g>, but labeling them DF items will help.

What hint? I didn't recall a hint. These are Dungeon Fantasy RPG items. I've even got a "Citadel at Nordvorn" tag on my own blog.

Speaking, my apologies Douglas but the script doesn't like accent marks so your title for Citadel at Norðvörn had to leave them out in the spec post.

No worries, but the best non-accented way to write it is Nordvorn rather than Norovorn.

Means Northwatch.

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Originally Posted by DouglasCole

What hint? I didn't recall a hint. These are Dungeon Fantasy RPG items. I've even got a "Citadel at Nordvorn" tag on my own blog.



No worries, but the best non-accented way to write it is Nordvorn rather than Norovorn.

Means Northwatch.

Corrected the spelling.
I have your two unnamed DF items up there, and despite my joking around in this case I dont think it will make much difference. Since its Third Party we may not see any hints on Kromms blog or you mixing it up much. But it gets hard to track multiple unnamed projects as clues could point to different items, and worse an item might be even be published and we dont know that from the rumor sources.