New Product: The Almanac of Fantasy Weather
Mar 5, 2018 11:01:20 GMT -5
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Post by oakesspalding on Mar 5, 2018 11:01:20 GMT -5
I'm jumping the gun a bit on this since it's still in the queue at DriveThruRPG, but it is now available on Lulu.
So, I revised and greatly expanded SEVEN YEARS of FANTASY WEATHER into THE ALMANAC of FANTASY WEATHER.
The most obvious change is size. It went from 104 pages to 1,130. Instead of 7 years of fantasy weather for one climate type, there are now 8 years of fantasy weather for 10 distinct climate types.
There are various other changes and (hopefully) improvements, ranging from "internal" modifications of the algorithm to make the weather more "realistic" to the addition of directly caused "supernatural" weather events, caused by anything from Djinn to Storm Giants to Eastern Dragons to battles among the gods.
If you can believe it, this offering is only Volume 1 (!). Titled "Swords & Sorcery", the idea was to identify 10 climate types that most resonate with a "swords and sorcery"-type vibe, anything from cyclone lashed coasts to burning deserts to steaming jungles to howling northern wastes. The plan (if I live long enough) is to follow it up with two more volumes simulating a range of "European" and "Oriental" climates, respectively.
But I'd like to think Swords & Sorcery has something for everyone.
THE ALMANAC was written with Zylarthen in mind, and contains some rules excerpts from it, but it's basically system generic. I would love for it to break into the 5e market.
If you've waited, now may be the time to buy. Alternatively, if you purchased England, Iceland or India on RPGNow, you'll get a discount on ALMANAC (I think, if RPGNow will allow it--I'm still a bit of a newbie).
I decided to price it at $19.95. That's in one sense low, considering the number of pages. On the other hand, seeing that it was 1000+ pages of charts as opposed to rules or prose (albeit with an expanded Introduction) I thought it was fair.
As always, feedback is appreciated. SEVEN YEARS was a moderate success, sales-wise (among other things, it supported my family's recent move), but it generated no comments on RPGNow and only three blog mentions (one of which was positive, one of which was snarky-the blogger hadn't read it, but felt "weather" products were boring-and one ideological). Admittedly, once I started work on THE ALMANAC, I didn't support SEVEN YEARS very well on social media.
I think the product is unique and fills a niche. Whether it's a niche that you think is worth $19.95 to fill is of course up to you. But, if it were me, I'd buy it
Thanks once again goes out to those who gave me private input on SEVEN YEARS, and thus inspired THE ALMANAC.
So, I revised and greatly expanded SEVEN YEARS of FANTASY WEATHER into THE ALMANAC of FANTASY WEATHER.
The most obvious change is size. It went from 104 pages to 1,130. Instead of 7 years of fantasy weather for one climate type, there are now 8 years of fantasy weather for 10 distinct climate types.
There are various other changes and (hopefully) improvements, ranging from "internal" modifications of the algorithm to make the weather more "realistic" to the addition of directly caused "supernatural" weather events, caused by anything from Djinn to Storm Giants to Eastern Dragons to battles among the gods.
If you can believe it, this offering is only Volume 1 (!). Titled "Swords & Sorcery", the idea was to identify 10 climate types that most resonate with a "swords and sorcery"-type vibe, anything from cyclone lashed coasts to burning deserts to steaming jungles to howling northern wastes. The plan (if I live long enough) is to follow it up with two more volumes simulating a range of "European" and "Oriental" climates, respectively.
But I'd like to think Swords & Sorcery has something for everyone.
THE ALMANAC was written with Zylarthen in mind, and contains some rules excerpts from it, but it's basically system generic. I would love for it to break into the 5e market.
If you've waited, now may be the time to buy. Alternatively, if you purchased England, Iceland or India on RPGNow, you'll get a discount on ALMANAC (I think, if RPGNow will allow it--I'm still a bit of a newbie).
I decided to price it at $19.95. That's in one sense low, considering the number of pages. On the other hand, seeing that it was 1000+ pages of charts as opposed to rules or prose (albeit with an expanded Introduction) I thought it was fair.
As always, feedback is appreciated. SEVEN YEARS was a moderate success, sales-wise (among other things, it supported my family's recent move), but it generated no comments on RPGNow and only three blog mentions (one of which was positive, one of which was snarky-the blogger hadn't read it, but felt "weather" products were boring-and one ideological). Admittedly, once I started work on THE ALMANAC, I didn't support SEVEN YEARS very well on social media.
I think the product is unique and fills a niche. Whether it's a niche that you think is worth $19.95 to fill is of course up to you. But, if it were me, I'd buy it
Thanks once again goes out to those who gave me private input on SEVEN YEARS, and thus inspired THE ALMANAC.