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Thursday night Fat Goblin Games will take on the challenge of creating a 96 page setting book for the Pathfinder Roleplaying game. with a team of one writer and one artist, they will challenge the odds and produce a complete setting, with classes, races, equipment, monsters, and a detailed description of the setting.
This will be a full color book and available for sale as a pdf upon completion. You, as a viewer will be able to see our periodic updates here as we work feverishly to produce the setting. But there is more!
In addition, to gear up for the event, we are asking you to choose the theme of the setting. This can be simply done by attending this event and before the event date posting what theme you would like to see. The night we launch the event we will choose the one with the most mentions. Now, when suggesting a theme, keep it simple. We want to see suggestions like jungle setting, horror setting, etc. No modern, just fantasy.
You can further support this event by donating ANY AMOUNT of money to the project through paypal. This money, whether a $1 or $5 will get you a free copy of the setting pdf the night the event ends. This money will go to fuel the creators in the challenge by providing pizza, energy drinks, and other essentials to rise to these monumental adventure. And if enough money is raised, the creators will choose a well deserving charity and donate the rest of the money for a good cause.
So, attend this event. Spread the word. Donate to the event. Choose a theme. Tune in as we create true awesomeness.
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Hey, this seems pretty cool.
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I would also like to see a Northern/Scandanavian/Viking setting.
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[cough] steampunk musha [/cough] :)
Awesome, head over to Facebook and let us know on the event page as well. Super excited, going to be crazy.
Awesome, head over to Facebook and let us know on the event page as well. Super excited, going to be crazy.
... and this is where you lose FHDM, reknown luddite. ;)
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[cough] steampunk musha [/cough] :)
It will be out this year, but it's going to need more then 24 hours.
Just to answer 2 quick questions.
1- paypal. You can support this product by donating to our paypal (fatgoblingames@gmail.com) any amount you donate, no matter how big or small will get you a pdf copy of the book.
The look and quality of the book (from a design/art perspective) will look much like our recent Racial Ecologies pdf's that have been in the top 10 at drivethru/rpgnow the last week or so.
2- If we get a large amount of donations we will be giving to charity. Most likely either the Crohn's foundation (Rick's wife suffers from the disease) or to a children's charity (as Rick and his wife also lost thir son this past thanksgiving.
Getting lots of suggestions on dark horror/cthulhu type setting.
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Numeria topics have been trending a lot lately on Paizo. How about a Thundarr the Barbarian post-apocalypse type setting?
P.S. Looking forward to this, guys! :)
Numeria topics have been trending a lot lately on Paizo. How about a Thundarr the Barbarian post-apocalypse type setting?
P.S. Looking forward to this, guys! :)
That would be awesome. I think a lot of people are going to be surprised at what we can put together and the quality.
only a few minutes left before we start, I'll post updates as we start the project, but it looks like a cthulhu/ravenloft type setting is going to win the votes.
If I donate this weekend, can I still get the download? I won't have internet other than my phone until saturday.
Vote for numeria
Oh yeah, my vote. Steam punk robot goodness
we have been cranking them pages out, sorry for not popping over for more updates. Some sample pages are posted
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fat-Goblin-Games/160448540698726
And we are looking for a name! So give us your best titles for this fantasy horror setting1
Donation incoming for you guys!
Donation incoming for you guys!
thanks
And we are looking for a name! So give us your best titles for this fantasy horror setting1
My title suggestions are Cast No Shadow, Evil Immortal or Heart of the Shadow.
Nope, not our first book. Artist/designer Rick Hershey has been working in the industry for over 10 years for just about everyone, from wotc,to green ronin, to open design. He also owns Empty Room Studios.
Jason Stoffa has been a DM for close to 15 years and has published books of various sizes through Empty Room Studios and Fat Goblin Games.
Anyways, things are moving along, updating all the time at Facebook. not too late to donate and get a copy!
WE have till 11pm eastern.
Best line from the book so far- 'Vathek gnomes are disguised as human children.'
Thanks,we are also still taking suggestions for names.
At this time, there's an hour and 15 minutes remaining!
We are still at it.
<drum roll ... >
yeah, it's not going to happen, but it's almost done. new art and layout slowed us down too much. We wanted to keep the quality up through out. so, we are taking a forced break by our wives, and should be able to finish it up in a few hours tomorrow. Even though we missed the deadline, it proved tome it can be done- and wait till you see it.
AS soon as Jason gets here we'll be starting back up and finishing the book. We were about 85% near completion last night, we will finish today. It is awesome.
it's being worked on- it was a rough weekend with various personal conflicts, but we are eager to finish it up and have been keeping track of our hours.
The man may be blunt, but he does have a point. I believe the whole excitement was to see what would appear within 24 hours. Since that ended at 11:00pm ET Friday and it's now Tuesday, such questions would likely come to surface.
Nevertheless, we're all curious (or at least those who pledged for it) to see the fruits of your labor, gentlemen. :)
5 days out it is obvious that this Challenge has been a colossal failure. It has certainly alienated me from this company. Just goes to show having a reliable and dependable schedule and good solid products (as so many other 3pp do here) is infinitely better than cheap gimmicks designed to raise money and play on people's desire to root for the under dog.
You did donate initially, correct? Just want to be certain.
Sorry for not checking in over here, we had been giving updates over at facebook. We actually got very close to the goal, however, art and layout slowed a lot of the process down, which cost us the deadline. Most everyone over at facebook suggested we take the week off and start back up the next weekend, or stick with the high quality of production and slow things down a bit.
So, that's what happened. ShadowcatX, sorry for the obviously huge disappointment we caused you. The general opinion of the majority of people following the event was to take the route we did, sorry if you do not agree.
And before you make comments on the quality of our products and schedule, do you even own any of our books?
You did donate initially, correct? Just want to be certain.
While I see where you're coming from, that's not really relevant to the point. I am disappointed by how this turned out. I personally ended up not donating myself due to real-life concerns that made me miss the deadline, but had planned to chip in $15-$20 just to encourage the audacity of the effort; now I am kind of glad that I didn't. I may have misconstrued their intent, but I inferred that they would be putting out a pdf of whatever "book" they had at the 24-hour mark. I don't think getting an "incomplete" copy of the work-in-progress at that point in exchange for your donation (of as little as $1) would make many people upset.
Instead they went from audaciously putting out a pdf book in 24 hours to audaciously putting out nothing in 24 hours (aside from jpegs of 2 page samples and 3 art samples). I hate to be cynical, but when you fail to put out anything after the time is up, and have still failed to put out anything after 132 hours despite having "the majority of the book ready" after 24, one starts to question the whole affair. How much did they get done? How hard did they try? Did they really even try to do it, or did they really just need an emergency influx of capital? A 24-hour book promotion is cool; a 24-hour-but-if-it's-not-done-after-24-hours-we'll-put-it-out-when-we're-sat isfied-with-it-which-might-be-the-next-day-or-maybe-the-next-week-but-who's -to-really-say-y'know? book promotion masquerading as a 24-hour book promotion is lame.
Of course, in the end the donaters will (hopefully) still get a pdf of the completed product, but I say if you're gonna use a gimmick then stick to it.
EDIT
Sorry for not checking in over here, we had been giving updates over at facebook...sorry for the obviously huge disappointment we caused you. The general opinion of the majority of people following the event was to take the route we did, sorry if you do not agree.
Thanks for the totally ninja'd apology - I'll just assume you would've included me if I could type at a reasonable speed;) I didn't realize you had gotten such feedback, as I was only checking the page you linked at the opening of this thread.
Again, we followed the suggestions of the people who were actively discussing the event with us on facebook.
And to clear things up- $15-$20 donation would of been more then we received total in donations- and almost all people gave a $5. We were doing it for fun not money.
If anyone feels we were taking advantage of them, I'll send a copy of the pdf as is right now.
No need - see above edit!
You can download a copy of the pdf as is from the event page on facebook. thanks.