Honestly, it is my own 2008 plan. Its my product lineup. It is still a work in progress, but it should make for more product to come out more quickly, although on a different scale.
Up to this point we have been strictly concentrating on large books. They weren’t huge, but 175-200+ page books with almost all text and few images they were big.It is a bigger challenge to coordinate with editors and make schedules with projects of this size. However, with Sci-Fi Sagas on the back burner I can focus on the things I really want to write. These include adventures and suppliments.
My first suppliment for E-RPG was Paradigm. It was a big book too. It had 50 pregenerated characters, including character sheets. If I had been thinking before I would have changed the book a bit and instead of releasing all five categories in the one book, I could have released six books. Each category would have been a single PDF with a sixth master paradigm book with all of them. Thats actually how I plan to do things this year.
I have some adventures that are big. They will be large books on the scale similar to Prophecy. However, I also have several smaller adventures I will be releasing as well. Source material will likewise be segmented. We are going to release a series of creature books. Each book will be a collection of 5 categorically similar creatures (Undead, Goblins, Meta Humans, etc.). I have some equipment expansions in mind for Modern Sagas as well as the Modern Sagas Dossiers. Both segmented by type.
My first thought here is that customers won’t have to wait forever to get a huge suppliment. Furthermore, they won’t have to buy a huge suppliment when all they really want is a single part. As it stands, if you want a pregenerated magic user for Fantasy Sagas you have to purchase the entire Paradigm. Why purchase the big book for more money when you could purchase a smaller book, with only what you need, for less?
Second, we can have a more productive release schedule. I can release more products for customers more quickly and of varying type. So instead of waiting a month for me to finnish a sourcebook to get your next adventure, you will only have to wait a significantly shorter time.
Lastly, I plan to put the choice of which product to release in the customer’s hand. I have already started a poll in the community forums which will choose the next Creature Sourcebook. While I will still determine which type of book I will be writing for, I will leave the contents of the book up to the customers.
Currently, I am finnishing up Desecration. Marco is chomping at the bit for this book to get the artwork done. I am also wrapping up the Undead Creatures Sourcebook, and starting in on a project called Sidetracks. So we have 3 new books on their way and we are rolling along pretty smoothly.
So I will wrap up here and get back to work on Desecration (btw, this is shaping up to be a really fun project!).
Happy Gaming
