Clark's New Company--A challenge!

[Clark Peterson]

Paul Watson wrote:

Bad Succubus Games wouldn't be a bad name for a game company. Just sayin'.

Actually, a succubus was going to be the logo of the company (in honor of DM and of old school gaming) but Drew and I just couldn't get it to work right as a logo. Instead, I went with the "stormbringer" angle. BUT I loved the succubus stuff he came up with so much we agreed we would put a succubus icon/image in every product somewhere. Like a mascot, if not actually the logo. :)

[joela]

Clark Peterson wrote:

Paul Watson wrote:

Bad Succubus Games wouldn't be a bad name for a game company. Just sayin'.

Actually, a succubus was going to be the logo of the company (in honor of DM and of old school gaming) but Drew and I just couldn't get it to work right as a logo. Instead, I went with the "stormbringer" angle. BUT I loved the succubus stuff he came up with so much we agreed we would put a succubus icon/image in every product somewhere. Like a mascot, if not actually the logo. :)

Pic?

[Clark Peterson]

joela wrote:

Pic?

Not yet. Still not final. My last instructions to Drew were "a bit hotter, and more evil, like maybe a fang showing from her lips, and another piercing". ;)

[bigkilla]

Maybe you can answer this one question from someone who owns every Necro product in print format. Will the Legendary Games stuff be print (please say yes as I do not buy PDF only releases)?

[joela]

Clark Peterson wrote:

joela wrote:

Pic?

Not yet. Still not final. My last instructions to Drew were "a bit hotter, and more evil, like maybe a fang showing from her lips, and another piercing". ;)

To paraphrase Paris Hilton: "That's hot."

[uriel222]

Just an FYI, but are you aware there is ANOTHER Legendary Games? Hopefully, it isn't a problem, I just thought I'd mention it.

[The Wolfiest™]

Clark Peterson wrote:

joela wrote:

I really don't see Orcus and Dark_Mistress at a sleepover discussing the latest in eye-lashes ;)

True, true. But a good demon lord doesn't whip and tell....

Wait.

Good...demon lord...

Uh, Clark...

head esplodes

Aw, crap.

[Clark Peterson]

uriel222 wrote:

Just an FYI, but are you aware there is ANOTHER Legendary Games? Hopefully, it isn't a problem, I just thought I'd mention it.

Yes, I ran the name early on. Its a kids toys company. Thanks for the tip though. There is another even, and it is different too.

[Gorbacz]

We were waiting right here for you Clark, glad to have you on the PF bandwagon - where Orcus belongs :)

[Clark Peterson]

bigkilla wrote:

Maybe you can answer this one question from someone who owns every Necro product in print format. Will the Legendary Games stuff be print (please say yes as I do not buy PDF only releases)?

bk, let's just say we will have some interesting options. More to come later.

As an aside, would you mind sharing why you don't like pdf-only releases?

[bigkilla]

Clark Peterson wrote:

bigkilla wrote:

Maybe you can answer this one question from someone who owns every Necro product in print format. Will the Legendary Games stuff be print (please say yes as I do not buy PDF only releases)?

bk, let's just say we will have some interesting options. More to come later.

As an aside, would you mind sharing why you don't like pdf-only releases?

Mainly it has to do with my eyes and reading stuff for long periods on a computer irritates them.

[JoelF847]

Sounds like an awesome team. I hope you only pay Neil per word published, not per word written though!

I'm surprised you shifted from NG to LG though. As a demon lord, CG would have been a step in the right direction.

[carmachu]

Cant wait to see what you put out.

[theneofish]

Clark Peterson wrote:

bigkilla wrote:

Maybe you can answer this one question from someone who owns every Necro product in print format. Will the Legendary Games stuff be print (please say yes as I do not buy PDF only releases)?

bk, let's just say we will have some interesting options. More to come later.

As an aside, would you mind sharing why you don't like pdf-only releases?

FWIW - I don't like buying pdf only either. I'll do it for small products from 3PP, say 10-20 pages, but above that... no. I don't like reading stuff on screen, not only because I won't take a laptop to the gaming table but I find it annoyingly difficult to flip back and forward or hold two pages open at once to refer to different pages, and I don't like printing things off - it's expensive to do in colour, usually one sided and not of good enough quality. I adored Necromancer games stuff, but really, I would not have enjoyed printing off Hall of the Rainbow Mage and running the adventure with loose sheets.

For instance, I've just bought Eamonvale and Demonheart from Frog God, which includes the pdf versions, but I haven't even opened them. I'll wait for the print version. And nor have I downloaded many of the APs from Paizo that I get as part of my sub. And I'm a subscriber on the Slumbering Tzar saga, but I haven't downloaded any of the ongoing pdfs - I just couldn't read them. I'll wait for the collected edition.

Just my preference I guess. If it says 'First Edition Feel', then I want to be able to actually feel it. So I'm really, really hoping for a print option here.

[Gorbacz]

Monster books are entirely different kind of beast (cheap pun intended) than adventures, as far as the PDF-format goes.

You cherry pick the bestiary for a monster or two, while the adventure pretty much requires to be read front to back in order to use them.

[Neil Spicer]

JoelF847 wrote:

Sounds like an awesome team. I hope you only pay Neil per word published, not per word written though!

It'll just be the usual "98 cents per word"... ;-P

Spoiler:

Actually, it'll be completely different from that. This is more of a partnership. Less of a simple freelance engagement.

[Doc_Outlands]

Neil Spicer wrote:

It'll just be the usual "98 cents per word"... ;-P

But did you read the fine-print? I hear daemon-lord contracts have killer fine-print...

[Neil Spicer]

Doc_Outlands wrote:

But did you read the fine-print? I hear daemon-lord contracts have killer fine-print...

You do realize I review contracts and negotiate terms and conditions for a living in my day job, right? :-)

[JoelF847]

Doc_Outlands wrote:

Neil Spicer wrote:

It'll just be the usual "98 cents per word"... ;-P

But did you read the fine-print? I hear daemon-lord contracts have killer fine-print...

Contracts with demons aren't the problem, it's contracts with devils that you have to watch out for. For demons, you just need to worry about them deciding to rip you into hundreds of bloody quivering shreds despite signing a contract with you minutes ago.

[bigkilla]

JoelF847 wrote:

Doc_Outlands wrote:

Neil Spicer wrote:

It'll just be the usual "98 cents per word"... ;-P

But did you read the fine-print? I hear daemon-lord contracts have killer fine-print...

Contracts with demons aren't the problem, it's contracts with devils that you have to watch out for. For demons, you just need to worry about them deciding to rip you into hundreds of bloody quivering shreds despite signing a contract with you minutes ago.

Actually its contracts with Cthulhu

[Dark Sasha]

bigkilla wrote:

JoelF847 wrote:

Doc_Outlands wrote:

Neil Spicer wrote:

It'll just be the usual "98 cents per word"... ;-P

But did you read the fine-print? I hear daemon-lord contracts have killer fine-print...

Contracts with demons aren't the problem, it's contracts with devils that you have to watch out for. For demons, you just need to worry about them deciding to rip you into hundreds of bloody quivering shreds despite signing a contract with you minutes ago.

Actually its contracts with Cthulhu

Well played, BK, well played. :)

[Doc_Outlands]

Neil Spicer wrote:

Doc_Outlands wrote:

But did you read the fine-print? I hear daemon-lord contracts have killer fine-print...

You do realize I review contracts and negotiate terms and conditions for a living in my day job, right? :-)

ROTFLMAO

Nope, had no idea! It just seemed really funny at the time. Hope it gave you an extra chuckle just because it fit better than I knew.

[Clark Peterson]

Congrats to everyone who managed to find us over the weekend. Nice work, everyone!

For those who haven't yet, here you go:

Legendary Games on Facebook

And follow us on Twitter: @legendary_games

No product announcements yet. Look for something right around, surprise of surprises, PaizoCon!

Clark

[Jeremiziah]

Clark Peterson wrote:

Congrats to everyone who managed to find us over the weekend. Nice work, everyone!

For those who haven't yet, here you go:

Legendary Games on Facebook

And follow us on Twitter: @legendary_games

No product announcements yet. Look for something right around, surprise of surprises, PaizoCon!

Clark

This makes me even happier that I am going to P-Con. As if I could have been happier.

[Clark Peterson]

Find me and introduce yourself! I'd love to meet the many awesome Paizonians :) I'll be there. And Neil, Jason and Booms will, too.

[Clark Peterson]

Clark Peterson wrote:

Find me and introduce yourself! I'd love to meet the many awesome Paizonians :) I'll be there. And Neil, Jason and Booms will, too.

And now it looks like I am going to be a guest on the "So You Want to be a Superstar" panel at PaizoCon with Sean and Neil. Awesome!

[Charles Evans 25]

Don't forget to explain the real way that the judges work when selecting the top flight of items... ;)
Post from a RPGSuperstar 2011 thread on the topic of why a poster 'lost':

Spoiler:

“Flame Troll of Doom” wrote:

[deranged conspiracy troll post]

You lost because you weren't one of the judges' favourite 36 items this year, pure and simple. Rawr!
The only important guideline, #27, they gave, they tricked you by putting it in last place. Rawr, Rawr, Rawr!
If the judges weren't out to get people who don't know their secret illuminati handshake, they would have put that guideline first and foremost, saying 'this is the important one, everything which comes first is subsidiary to it'. But they didn't, which proves that they are unscrupulous b@$t@rd$, out to top everyone that didn't pay $$$$ to their secret slush fund to get a nod and a wink to how to enter. Furthermore, if you analyse the last letters of each sentence of twenty-six of the judges' favourite 36 entries you will find that they conform to a series of templates laid out in a secret document issued to those prepared to pay $$$$$$$ for the privilege of 'special consideration'. This was a clever means of the judges being able to pretend that entries were anonymous to the Cathargian magi looking over their shoulders all the time, whilst in fact still being able to discover who had paid the extra bribes to make sure that they got their items in.
Nine of the other items got into the top thirty six, because there weren't nine more people prepared to pay $$$$$$$ to be guaranteed a favourite thirty six ranking.
The tenth other item isn't a real item at all. It's a coded message from Clinton Boomer's little sister who works at the Coliseum Morpheuon to Osama bin Laden who is in fact a CIA agent working for an ex-communist mad albino monk in the employ of an ostensibly Christian Organisation that wants to preserve the bloodline of the last of the Greek gods from being captured by fungi from the planet Yuggoth. The mi-go appear to be in league with the daleks from Skaro, in the last time-war against Elvis and Lord Lucan, but the daleks are planning to double-cross the mi-go and sell out to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, whilst the mi-go are in fact planning to overthrow Cthulhu in favour of liberating his daughter via an escape hatch in the Bermuda triangle and are using the daleks as expendable patsies to distract the Vogons. What neither the mi-go nor the daleks realise is that their strings are being pulled by a pair of cross-trading Arcanaloths based in the City of Doors for whom this is in fact merely the latest skirmish in an aeons old rivalry.
Meanwhile, the last descendant of Athena has joined a coven of witches that secretly run congress in the mistaken belief that her powers are of supernatural, not divine origin. The witches are in league with an organization of arms-companies, headed by Veddic, who are selling weapons to both sides in what they expect to be the forthcoming mi-go dalek conflict. The arms companies think that Veddic is in it purely for the money, not realising that Veddic is in fact using the layers of intrigue to distract the Decemvirate so that they don't interfere with his next shipment of sun-orchid elixir from Thuvia. Of course Veddic doesn't know that his organization has been thoroughly infiltrated by agents of Mengkare, who intend to escalate the mi-go dalek conflict when it breaks out to act as a distraction so that they can snatch Athena's last descendant and take her to Hermea for their master's personal attention in his breeding program. Mengkare needs Athena's last descendant because his conflict with Captain Olaf is intensifying, as the goldfish has discovered an organization of Chinese dragons disguised as goldfish to hide from a megalomaniacal media tycoon who are prepared to assist him in his struggle on general principle.
And what almost nobody else has realised is that James Bond arrived in the middle of Andoran last week in pursuit of a villain with a sinister cat, and bugged a meeting between agents of Razmir and a Druman merchant to fix a racing event in Qadira. James Bond has been adapting to the local circumstances with his usual speed and aplomb, and has already blown up three depots of alchemical hardware scheduled for delivery to various rebel groups in Galt, Cheliax, and Lastwall, and has captured an experimental flying carpet with twin staves of power and ring of featherfall mounted with which he intends to launch a raid on Katapesh with the assistance of a succubus he has seduced and redeemed. The contents of the three arms depots and the carpet were of course being shipped by Veddic, and the Druman and Razmiran delegation are unhappy with the loss of their gear and are planning to ask Veddic for a refund, threatening to destabilise Veddic's schemes.
And meanwhile, somewhere in a crystal castle of unmistakeably Thassilonian architecture on an island bordering the Varisian Gulf, a group of women are meeting for tea and scones and laughing...
Sorry. If Clinton Boomer's little sister hadn't really needed to send that coded message, your item might have made it into thirty sixth place in the judges' lists of favourites, but given the intergalactic situation, they simply couldn't afford to make any token gestures this year by letting in someone who hadn't paid bribes up front... RAWR!!!!
Oh, PS. JFK did organise the assassination of Abraham Lincoln from the deck of the Marie Celeste, which is why a Men in Black agent with a remote teleportation device faked JFK's own 'assassination' with the assistance of a cloned body double and a Classy Gnoll. That was incidental to the time-wars though, and Rassilon was behind it. Rassilon is in fact abroad on Earth today, disguised as Timothy Dalton, and is Mark Moreland's true paymaster - hence the whole Paizo wikipedia trouble which went on a few months ago. But since Rassilon is on an FBI watch-list he keeps his head down in this decade, and didn't really influence the success or failure of your item at all.
[/deranged conspiracy troll post]
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