Wow! I never heard about this until now. Nice work. I've crossposted a link to this over at the Midgard forum at The Piazza: Yggdrasil Fanzine.
It is a bit last minute, but I've tried to get you a bit of signal boost via a topic at the Pathfinder forum at The Piazza. Good luck! (And you are welcome to post a regular open call for submissions in the Pathfinder forum at The Piazza.)
I've crossposted this over at the Spelljammer forum at The Piazza. How much of Starfinder would be useful for a Spelljammer fan who is happy with the existing Spelljammer rules, but looking for additional material to raid from your book and add to their SJ game?
Yo u call for a "single image" but then link to an example that has *two* images and an embedded YouTube clip. So if you got what you asked for, it would not actually allow for that product announcement to be made in the same way it was over at RPG Geek. Maybe you should just ask for images to be supported rather than propose that they restrict the images to one per top post. Are there other parts of the Paizo forums where they *do* support images (or embedded YouTube clips)? If they support this elsewhere, they might be able to change the settings on this subforum, or manually add 3rd Party Publishers into a group to give them the ability to add images. But if you are asking for something they don't support in their own forum, maybe that would require money to be spent on reprogramming their system. If that is the case would you be happy to stump up the cash? Would you be happy to rally round the 3rd Party Publishers to get them to chip in? Or are you hoping that Paizo will fund any changes out of their own pocket? Also, the thread title "I'm Calling Out the Paizo Forum's Staff!" comes across as a bit aggressive. Have you actually been in discussions with the forum staff and had them tell you to get lost or somesuch? If the moderators here have no power to do what you are asking, it seems a bit rude to "call them out" instead of escalating a private query to the next level. And if you have not actually spoken to the forum staff before today, then "calling them out" could be counter-productive. It could make you look like someone acting a bit trollish, rather than make you look like "someone with a great idea that is going to help Paizo sell more 3rd Party Publisher product in their stores". This could potentially help Paizo sell product, but I think you need to think about how you pitch the concept, so that people hear the message (and not just hear random anger). And with the example you linked to being "Go to www.ConflictPvP.com to buy my stuff" it seems like you would be wanting to use this forum to drive sales *away* from Paizo's store, rather than drive sales *towards* their store. So I'm not actually sure that what you are proposing is going to actually earn them cash in the future. So what is in it for them? What does Paizo get out of doing this? If you can make that a bit clearer, perhaps you can motivate them to make the changes you would like to see. Also this might not be the best place to make a request. This is a forum for people to discuss 3rd Party Products, not one for people to ask for tech support. Perhaps the Website Feedback forum would be a better place to get a response from someone that can actually change the settings on the website. Anyhoo. Good luck marketing your stuff. EDIT: I posted a thread in the Website Feedback forum for you: Publisher wants image support for Compatible Products from Other Publishers forum. Hope that gets someone from the team over here.
The Piazza has an Al-Qadim forum and you can find some threads about conversions over there:
(There is even a 4e conversion thread there, but that is probably of limited use to you.) Nate Christen is the guy that dropped all the Pathfinder threads. At the time he dropped them, they had not been playtested. There is also a general Al-Quadim links thread: (Other Al-Qadim Websites) where people are trying to collate a list of all the Al-Qadim fansites and communities that are out there.
Sorry for the delay. Actually no to both of those. I am just an end customer. I have no connection with any RPG store, the Bits & Mortar program or any RPG publisher. The second thing is really not something I've brought up in this topic. I'm not sure why you have. If I didn't want to pay more for a PDF of something, I could just scan it in myself and make my own PDF. I think that the Bits & Mortar scheme, and the publishers that are backing it are doing something that might help some RPG stores to pull in some customers. My original post was to ask if Paizo could join in. Vic has already said that they can not. Maybe that might change in the future. Maybe it won't. I've got my answer. There is no big deal.
I'm not sure how you thought I was being grossly discourteous to Vic Wertz. To be honest, I'm pretty baffled that you are treating me like I'm trolling. I clearly said that I think it is great that he explains things, rather than just saying "no" at the start of the post. I think that is something that is really great about him, compared to some other RPG people that don't have the time to answer random enquiries from random customers. The bottom line is that Vic Wertz's time is money and him talking to us on the forums is brilliant. I think my first statement made that pretty clear. I went on to point out how this situation was not exactly the same as the post that I had been referred to. I didn't say that Vic was stupid or mistaken. Just that the circumstances are different to setting up remote sales. I don't think that pointing out the two situations as being different is rude. You did. I'm not sure why. I'll try to explain where I'm coming from for you. The thing that I have in mind is that (in case you or others don't know) Paizo sinks a lot of cash into being one of the top two supporters of the FreeRPG Day scheme (the other being Wizards of the Coast). FreeRPG Day is free to punters, but Paizo pay to make the free stuff (and the RPG stores that get the stuff pay for the cost of shipping). (And I've been following FreeRPG Day for the last few years and Paizo and WotC have both put in the most product every year.) I'm not sure exactly how much that Paizo have sunk into FreeRPG Day over the years, but I'm betting that it is a substantial amount of cash. So I know that Paizo is doing what it can to support bricks & mortar stores. While a few other customers have written off physical stores (and some publishers have gone totally PDF and pulled out of the sales chain that physical stored depend on) Paizo is continuing to support the stores (and online RPG outlets) by continuing to stay in the dead-tree market. I think that Vic and the rest of the Paizo team would support this kind of concept if they were sure that it would not damage their subscription sales. The problem I see is that the security they put into their own system would need to somehow be duplicated in order to satisfy them that PDFs would not get redistributed. I suppose that they could do it in house, but it would have a prohibitively high cost. (Which would obviously make it a non-starter.) Hopefully things might change in the future that makes this easier. But if that does not happen, then I hope that the other publishers find that this scheme increase sales to the level that it is a financial boost to them.
Spelljammer was fun. Now will Pathfinder adopt the whole nine yards, with 500,000 gp Helms, hammerships, and planar gravity fields for small objects? They can't do an exact copy of Spelljammer, as that could be seen as IP theft. But they can do some pretty close stuff, especially as Spelljammer was inspired by real things. Take helms - you can't have a "Spelljamming helm" as a giant seat that uses a spellcaster's spells to move a ship. But given the number of SJ fans that moan about the cost of using a Spelljamming helm*, I think that Paizo might actually be better off not having them. If Paizo come up with a ship that just gets treated as a magic item, they can start with a clean slate and everyone is going to accept that. * = As opposed to the other fans who moan that people that want to remove the disruption to spellcasting are ruining the balance of SJ. Hammerships are out, but Paizo wouldn't be limited to the sort of ships that sail on the sea. They could have ships that look a bit like real-world airships as well as ones that look a bit like aeroplanes or helecopters**. So while they might not be able to go with the exact sea-ship, fish-ship, insect ship, birdship mix that D&D used, they could invent new categories of fantasy space ships and give each one a different way to handle movement***. ** = "Airships" could for example be filled with a fantasy type of air rather than scientific air. Gnomes that collect the marshgas that bubbles up in swamps might be a good way to avoid doing it scientifically. "Planes" could instead have wings that flap or could be made by killing a dragon, skinning it and then fitting the skin and wings onto a frame. Helecopters could be based on Leonardo de Vinci's "Aerial Screw". *** = An airship could be able to hover on the spot and launch attacks on buildings. It would also tend to stay the right way up. A plane could swoop around the sky and make the same sort of attacks as birds. This could add dogfights to the game. A helecopter could take off and land in a very small area (like the courtyard of a castle). This might make it a specialist ship that is great for invasions, but poor at ship-to-ship fighting. I'm working on a Spelljammer version of Earth's Solar System, which includes a fantasy version of Mars, and Venus, and a Roman gods pantheon where deities of the same name reside on each planet, doesn't mean they are easy to find, if one lands on the planet, but each planet reflects a bit of the character of the residing deity. Are you aware that several other people have started (but not finished) this idea? Check out Terraspace on Beyond the Moons. Mars for example, has a lot of warring nations fighting for scarce resources on Mars' dry surface, it includes a Lowellian canal system. Venus is a cloud covered planet who's entire land surface is covered with jungle, even at the poles. The Moon looks starkly different, covered with crater lakes, mare seas, and sylvan forests on the shores. Earth looks like Earth, though this is a fantasy version of Earth, the continents and geographic outlines are the same, the nations inhabiting the surface are different, as well as there being fantasy races and monsters populating it. As I said to someone else working on Terraspace (over at The Piazza), you might want to check out Sean K. Reynolds work on Barsoom. You might also want to look out for a campaign setting called Sundered Reaches. If you are not trying to make something commercial, you could just drop one of those in.
In ur campaign settin. Convertin ur wurld into Spelljammr crystal sfere.
I really have no idea how this works, but has Paizo thought of offering PODs of some of the out-of-print works currently only available as PDFs? I'm sure there's some legalities involved, but I'd love to have a hardcopy of Cthulhu by Gaslight or Baltron's Beacon. Time has marched on since this decision to put the idea on the "backburner". Other RPG publishers are already using alternative companies to put out products as Print on Demand books. I think it may be time for Paizo Publishing to give this new technology another look. Take this problem that one of your customers had with Council of Thieves Player's Guide (PFRPG) PDF: Can I buy a print copy of this? or why this wasnt printed?It wasn't printed because, frankly, our previous printed player's guides didn't do as well as we'd hoped. They sold okay here on paizo.com, but I think many retailers didn't order them because they didn't really understand what they were. If you were already geared up for Print on Demand, your "retailer understanding" problem would not have prevented you from getting Algarad the product he or she wanted to buy. Print on Demand could also be very good for your non-US customers. With PoD outlets now springing up all over the world, the extra cost of one-off printings may be offset by the drop in postage costs. And the savings in storage costs may also be helpful. Obviously, it needs an accountant to look into this sort of stuff, but I think that you may be able to help your customers to get certain things cheaper if you embrace PoD. I've seen a few grognoid products start to sell for stupidly high prices on sites like Amazon. I would rather have a PoD reprint than get ripped off. And who knows. If WotC are really worried about the "piracy threat" of grognoid PDFs, then maybe they might let you sell them on a strictly PoD only basis.
Beyond the Moons has been turtle slow, but some new things have been happening recently and a revamp is being planned. Keep your eye on Player's Guide to Spelljammer, Ships in Wildspace and Monsters of Wildspace because I'm sure there will be some updates fairly soon (even if the SJ3e project has been "turtle slow" in the past). In the meantime you might want to check out Shattered Fractine. Shattered Fractine was a leading SJ website, but has recently been shut down and is in The Lost Spheres (the Beyond the Moons archive of SJ websites). If you are looking for SJ monsters then the Creature Catalogue team might be able to help you out. They have a project to create 3rd edition versions of all the monsters that Wizards of the Coast didn't convert into 3rd edition monsters. Here is their list of Unconverted Spelljammer creatures. If you don't see a monster on that list then it has already been covered in a WotC product or converted by someone else. See Echohawk's Complete D&D Monster Index (June 2008) for the latest published version of an index that contains every known conversion of every known D&D monster! (The Shattered Fractine links in that index are out of date, but that is only because that website only went offline in the last month.) There is a Spelljammer forum at The Piazza where you can ask other questions. Alternatively, you can join the Spelljammer Mailing List if you prefer emails. |
