Post by Adam of The Old Kingdom on Aug 9, 2015 2:27:03 GMT
Big update from a Big week cut to 3 pages of succinct update, check out the link if you want the full text and pics.
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By Kevin Siembieda®
The last several Weekly Updates have been rather brief as we were preparing for Gen Con and trying to hammer out a couple of books. That means this Update will be fairly long, but full of news and fun stuff, including our first Robotech® Flash Sale and our Gen Con Report.
NEW! Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Zentraedi Invasion Weekend Flash Sale – August 7, 8 & 9, 2015 – Friday, Saturday and Sunday only – Select RRT titles at a gotta have it discount!
“Robotech® Expeditionary Force Marines™ Sourcebook was a hot item at Gen Con, and we are hearing a lot of positive feedback. We are proud of the Robotech® Expeditionary Force Marines™ Sourcebook and think you will enjoy it very much.”
“UPDATE: Gen Con Indy Report, Robotech®, Rifts® and more
Gen Con was fun, exciting and completely worthwhile. Sales, though our best ever, were a bit disappointing.”
The fuck? Best ever and disappointing. At least you went in with high expectations.
“One high point at Gen Con (and there were a number of them) was meeting and chatting with legendary modeler and Creative Director at Spartan Games, Neil Fawcett. Neil was very gracious with his time and input. He looked over Robotech® RPG Tactics™ and he liked what he saw. He loved the detail and expressed his opinion that the sculpts and sprues were of top notch quality. He was sorry to hear that the factory had to, in effect, create new digital files from the STL files provided them, because it makes the tooling process so long and costly, but thought they did an excellent job. He mentioned several times while looking over the various sprues (and finished built pieces) that “the factory did a really nice job for you.” It was cool hearing that from a man with such experience and background. Neil also offered us some advice for moving forward with Wave Two items, and liked the three new metal exclusives at the show; commenting that the quality, all round, was high. He’s a robot/spaceship nut (no surprise there, right) and loves looking at stuff like this. I gave him a copy of Robotech® RPG Tactics™ and he said he’d return the favor by sending Palladium a few things. Awesome. Thanks, Neil, it was great meeting you and we look forward to seeing more amazing releases for Halo and other projects from Spartan Games.
Btw, if you guys and gals haven’t taken a look at the Halo miniature game from Spartan Games, you need to check them out. Wow.”
Insightful and a plug. *thumbs up*
Awesome. Wow.
“Carmen Bellaire and Jeff Ruiz (NMI) ran a great many Robotech® RPG Tactics™ demos during Gen Con, especially Jeff. Carmen Bellaire is a rapidly rising star within game design circles. After my making the proper introductions at Gen Con last year, Carmen has been hired by Upper Deck to design several new games for them and has impressed them with his first couple of endeavors. He’s also working on a game for Hawk Wargames, and the owner of yet another game company who watched Carmen demoing one of his own, independent game designs, was so impressed, he approached Carmen about doing some game designs for him in the future. For years, I’ve been saying that Carmen Bellaire is a genius, a true “natural” at game designs that are fast and fun. I’m so happy that he is finding the success and recognition he so richly deserves. I’m also thrilled that one of the future projects Carmen would like to tackle is a Rifts® miniature game.”
Good to see quality work getting rewarded.
And a plug *thumbs up*
What other stories do we have form GMs at the con?
“My lunch meeting with Pauline and Meredith from DriveThruRPG.com (and Brian afterward) was also fun, fruitful and exciting….I was particularly pleased to learn that the company now offers Print on Demand “cards” (as well as POD books and PDFs), which means we may be able to make available professional looking Robotech® RPG Tactics™ cards you can drop right into your games, for those of you who might want them. There are some other applications we’re exploring, but let us iron everything out before we start talking about all the things we are looking into.”
I wonder how much margin would be cut with POD and JIT warehousing. But it’s good to see exploration of new ideas.
Next I would like POD with international suppliers. Maybe that’s the next way to avoid prohibitive shipping is to shift it to be always local.
“My thanks to our many fans and friends who always make Gen Con a success and a good time. I always look forward to this convention and enjoyed seeing many old friends and associates and making new friends. My thanks also to our volunteer helpers and friends who pitched in to give us a hand: Matt, Brandon, Sarah, Evelyn, Jeff, Mark, Madman Mike, Dennis, Carmen, Christina, Jake, Shawn, Lisa, CJ, Lesa, Big Jim, the Goddess, Connor, Matt, Robert and everyone else. We enjoyed good eats, laughs and many other moments too numerous (or personal) to describe here.”
And we thank them too. The people that give of themselves to enrich others, I mean the PB fans
“UPDATE: Rifts® Savage Worlds® and Gen Con
Savage Rifts®, the Rifts® adaptation to the Savage Worlds game system, was another fun, “hot” topic at Gen Con. I enjoyed several conversations with the primary author of this project, Sean Patrick Fannon.
The game sounds like it most definitely captures the Rifts® setting, look and feel, and blends it smoothly with the Savage World rules. I’m privy to rules and information I’m not sure we can share yet, but it sounds like Sean is hitting on all cylinders. He’s created a number of wonderful rules and applications that sound fantastic.
Savage Rifts® release dates: I’m sure some of this is tentative and subject to possible change, but here’s what the folks at Pinnacle are planning at the moment:Kickstarter in the Fall and release of the Savage Rifts® Core Rule Book, Player’s Guide and a Creatures book in time for Christmas.”
Hitting the mark and Firing on all Cylinders?
Does this say that Savage Rifts will be floated on a kickstarter?
Larry Elmore and the SnarfQuest digital game Kickstarter
One of the friends who is great to see at Gen Con is my pal, Larry Elmore. We chatted, got caught up with each other’s lives a bit and enjoyed a few laughs. I got his art book and the newest SnarfQuest book (in color). I was surprised and pleased to see that Larry was working with a gent to create a SnarfQuest digital game.SnarfQuest is, of course, Larry Elmore’s beloved fantasy comic strip.
And a plug *thumbs up*
“UPDATE: Chaos Earth® Resurrection™
Art is coming in from Chuck Walton, Mark Dudley, Tanya Ramsey and Apollo Okamura as I get back to work on the manuscript. Had a lot of Gen Con follow-up and catching up to do this week. August release (tentative). With more Rifts® titles to follow!”
No. this was dropped to get Robotech to Gencon. It was dropped at a time that it still took 3 weeks to finish marines so August to printers is your stretch goal for this month.
“UPDATE: Splicers® Sourcebooks
There is growing excitement about Splicers® here at Palladium and among our fan base. The number of Spliceheads is growing and we have all kinds of things boiling behind the scenes for Splicers®. Oh, and our thanks to Thaddeus for the awesome Splicers T-shirts. Everyone loved them.”
This perplexes me. Came out in 2004, is already on Drivethru along with PF 1st ed and other other classics like Africa the 1st and revised editions. And now its being pimped. Next well get BTS 2 and 3 as a talking point.
“UPDATE: More PDF titles on DriveThruRPG.com
Rifts® World Book 6: South America is now available “
“And now for something completely different – Xounts Up Kickstarter
This product is so unique (and cool) that I’m not even really going to try to describe it. Instead, I encourage you to take a look at the Kickstarter (really look at it), and see if it is something you might enjoy.
I’m telling you about the Xounts Up Kickstarter because the company has reached out to Palladium to help them spread the word. They even sent us one of theirprototype units, with no strings attached, for our examination and use. It arrived while we were at Gen Con. I thought that was a pretty bold and generous thing to do, and the product looks cool, so I figured it can’t hurt to point you in their direction.
Xounts Up is being manufactured by a German company, so those of you in the EU may find this a more affordable and accessible item.
”
“no strings” as a marketing ploy can work well. 2nd oldest trick in military history. After booby traps.
That’s it for this Update. Have a great weekend.
– Kevin Siembieda®, Game Designer, Writer, Publisher
www.palladiumbooks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=798:palladium-booksr-weekly-update-august-7-2015&catid=52:weekly-updates&Itemid=183
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By Kevin Siembieda®
The last several Weekly Updates have been rather brief as we were preparing for Gen Con and trying to hammer out a couple of books. That means this Update will be fairly long, but full of news and fun stuff, including our first Robotech® Flash Sale and our Gen Con Report.
NEW! Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Zentraedi Invasion Weekend Flash Sale – August 7, 8 & 9, 2015 – Friday, Saturday and Sunday only – Select RRT titles at a gotta have it discount!
“Robotech® Expeditionary Force Marines™ Sourcebook was a hot item at Gen Con, and we are hearing a lot of positive feedback. We are proud of the Robotech® Expeditionary Force Marines™ Sourcebook and think you will enjoy it very much.”
“UPDATE: Gen Con Indy Report, Robotech®, Rifts® and more
Gen Con was fun, exciting and completely worthwhile. Sales, though our best ever, were a bit disappointing.”
The fuck? Best ever and disappointing. At least you went in with high expectations.
“One high point at Gen Con (and there were a number of them) was meeting and chatting with legendary modeler and Creative Director at Spartan Games, Neil Fawcett. Neil was very gracious with his time and input. He looked over Robotech® RPG Tactics™ and he liked what he saw. He loved the detail and expressed his opinion that the sculpts and sprues were of top notch quality. He was sorry to hear that the factory had to, in effect, create new digital files from the STL files provided them, because it makes the tooling process so long and costly, but thought they did an excellent job. He mentioned several times while looking over the various sprues (and finished built pieces) that “the factory did a really nice job for you.” It was cool hearing that from a man with such experience and background. Neil also offered us some advice for moving forward with Wave Two items, and liked the three new metal exclusives at the show; commenting that the quality, all round, was high. He’s a robot/spaceship nut (no surprise there, right) and loves looking at stuff like this. I gave him a copy of Robotech® RPG Tactics™ and he said he’d return the favor by sending Palladium a few things. Awesome. Thanks, Neil, it was great meeting you and we look forward to seeing more amazing releases for Halo and other projects from Spartan Games.
Btw, if you guys and gals haven’t taken a look at the Halo miniature game from Spartan Games, you need to check them out. Wow.”
Insightful and a plug. *thumbs up*
Awesome. Wow.
“Carmen Bellaire and Jeff Ruiz (NMI) ran a great many Robotech® RPG Tactics™ demos during Gen Con, especially Jeff. Carmen Bellaire is a rapidly rising star within game design circles. After my making the proper introductions at Gen Con last year, Carmen has been hired by Upper Deck to design several new games for them and has impressed them with his first couple of endeavors. He’s also working on a game for Hawk Wargames, and the owner of yet another game company who watched Carmen demoing one of his own, independent game designs, was so impressed, he approached Carmen about doing some game designs for him in the future. For years, I’ve been saying that Carmen Bellaire is a genius, a true “natural” at game designs that are fast and fun. I’m so happy that he is finding the success and recognition he so richly deserves. I’m also thrilled that one of the future projects Carmen would like to tackle is a Rifts® miniature game.”
Good to see quality work getting rewarded.
And a plug *thumbs up*
What other stories do we have form GMs at the con?
“My lunch meeting with Pauline and Meredith from DriveThruRPG.com (and Brian afterward) was also fun, fruitful and exciting….I was particularly pleased to learn that the company now offers Print on Demand “cards” (as well as POD books and PDFs), which means we may be able to make available professional looking Robotech® RPG Tactics™ cards you can drop right into your games, for those of you who might want them. There are some other applications we’re exploring, but let us iron everything out before we start talking about all the things we are looking into.”
I wonder how much margin would be cut with POD and JIT warehousing. But it’s good to see exploration of new ideas.
Next I would like POD with international suppliers. Maybe that’s the next way to avoid prohibitive shipping is to shift it to be always local.
“My thanks to our many fans and friends who always make Gen Con a success and a good time. I always look forward to this convention and enjoyed seeing many old friends and associates and making new friends. My thanks also to our volunteer helpers and friends who pitched in to give us a hand: Matt, Brandon, Sarah, Evelyn, Jeff, Mark, Madman Mike, Dennis, Carmen, Christina, Jake, Shawn, Lisa, CJ, Lesa, Big Jim, the Goddess, Connor, Matt, Robert and everyone else. We enjoyed good eats, laughs and many other moments too numerous (or personal) to describe here.”
And we thank them too. The people that give of themselves to enrich others, I mean the PB fans
“UPDATE: Rifts® Savage Worlds® and Gen Con
Savage Rifts®, the Rifts® adaptation to the Savage Worlds game system, was another fun, “hot” topic at Gen Con. I enjoyed several conversations with the primary author of this project, Sean Patrick Fannon.
The game sounds like it most definitely captures the Rifts® setting, look and feel, and blends it smoothly with the Savage World rules. I’m privy to rules and information I’m not sure we can share yet, but it sounds like Sean is hitting on all cylinders. He’s created a number of wonderful rules and applications that sound fantastic.
Savage Rifts® release dates: I’m sure some of this is tentative and subject to possible change, but here’s what the folks at Pinnacle are planning at the moment:Kickstarter in the Fall and release of the Savage Rifts® Core Rule Book, Player’s Guide and a Creatures book in time for Christmas.”
Hitting the mark and Firing on all Cylinders?
Does this say that Savage Rifts will be floated on a kickstarter?
Larry Elmore and the SnarfQuest digital game Kickstarter
One of the friends who is great to see at Gen Con is my pal, Larry Elmore. We chatted, got caught up with each other’s lives a bit and enjoyed a few laughs. I got his art book and the newest SnarfQuest book (in color). I was surprised and pleased to see that Larry was working with a gent to create a SnarfQuest digital game.SnarfQuest is, of course, Larry Elmore’s beloved fantasy comic strip.
And a plug *thumbs up*
“UPDATE: Chaos Earth® Resurrection™
Art is coming in from Chuck Walton, Mark Dudley, Tanya Ramsey and Apollo Okamura as I get back to work on the manuscript. Had a lot of Gen Con follow-up and catching up to do this week. August release (tentative). With more Rifts® titles to follow!”
No. this was dropped to get Robotech to Gencon. It was dropped at a time that it still took 3 weeks to finish marines so August to printers is your stretch goal for this month.
“UPDATE: Splicers® Sourcebooks
There is growing excitement about Splicers® here at Palladium and among our fan base. The number of Spliceheads is growing and we have all kinds of things boiling behind the scenes for Splicers®. Oh, and our thanks to Thaddeus for the awesome Splicers T-shirts. Everyone loved them.”
This perplexes me. Came out in 2004, is already on Drivethru along with PF 1st ed and other other classics like Africa the 1st and revised editions. And now its being pimped. Next well get BTS 2 and 3 as a talking point.
“UPDATE: More PDF titles on DriveThruRPG.com
Rifts® World Book 6: South America is now available “
“And now for something completely different – Xounts Up Kickstarter
This product is so unique (and cool) that I’m not even really going to try to describe it. Instead, I encourage you to take a look at the Kickstarter (really look at it), and see if it is something you might enjoy.
I’m telling you about the Xounts Up Kickstarter because the company has reached out to Palladium to help them spread the word. They even sent us one of theirprototype units, with no strings attached, for our examination and use. It arrived while we were at Gen Con. I thought that was a pretty bold and generous thing to do, and the product looks cool, so I figured it can’t hurt to point you in their direction.
Xounts Up is being manufactured by a German company, so those of you in the EU may find this a more affordable and accessible item.
”
“no strings” as a marketing ploy can work well. 2nd oldest trick in military history. After booby traps.
That’s it for this Update. Have a great weekend.
– Kevin Siembieda®, Game Designer, Writer, Publisher
www.palladiumbooks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=798:palladium-booksr-weekly-update-august-7-2015&catid=52:weekly-updates&Itemid=183
