My publisher, Ramen Sandwich Press, just brewed up an announcement for our new Kickstarter campaign in support of a series of Pathfinder OGL modules:
"Ramen Sandwich Press is pleased to announce that we’ve launched a Kickstarter to support a line of location/adventure modules for Pathfinder OGL! We’re testing the market for a new Pathfinder-oriented product line called Found by the Way. As with our successful Places by the Way series of modules for D&D 5E, you should think of them as glittering mosaic tiles that you can drop into a campaign to provide your player characters with diverting side quests and memorable interludes while they follow the overall story arc.
"Found by the Way is written by RPG veteran Douglas Sun. He is also writing Places by the Way, and his past work includes contributions to Decipher’s Star Trek and Lord of the Rings RPGs, AEG’s Legend of the Five Rings RPG, and a substantial body of D&D 3.0/3.5 OGL books (including part of Fields of Blood, the precursor to recent Kickstarter sensation Strongholds & Followers).
"The campaign rewards focus on “Limited,” Kickstarter-only versions of the first four modules in the series. Each of them contains an Easter Egg of content — an extra location, or an addition to an existing location — that will not appear in the versions that will go on sale to the general public after the campaign is over. You can claim a PDF copy of one or more modules and a print copy of a compendium of all four modules signed to you by the author. If the campaign meets its funding goal, we’ll continue the series with Found by the Way #5 (no specifics yet, but dwarves will be involved) in late spring/early summer."
We're on the compatibility license registry here at paizo.com, if you want to check out our blurb, and I occasionally post design diary-type musings to my blog. Pledge early, pledge often!
That may be the greatest name for a company I've ever seen! Good luck! I hope you guys have much success!
We're off to a good start after a solid first day, and thank you to everyone who has pledged! But we're going to need more backing to make Found by the Way happen. Pledge early, pledge often and help us spread the word to your friends who love Pathfinder!
Well, timing is everything in life, in comedy, in game publishing as well. So I have to chuckle ruefully at launching a Kickstarter to support a series of Pathfinder OGL modules with a June delivery date less than a week before Paizo announces a new edition of Pathfinder to launch in August!
So what does Ramen Sandwich Press do now? Well, the short version is that our position has not changed: If we can get a critical mass of support for Found by the Way from the Pathfinder community, we'll make a long-term commitment to Pathfinder in return. I'll keep writing them, Ramen Sandwich Press will keep publishing them, come what may.
But we're still uncertain about the details. Do we follow through with the original plan — ship modules tailored to the current edition, knowing that they'll only be "current" for a few more months, and then send a conversion guide to all our backers after the SRD for 2nd Edition is released? Or do we hold off until the fall, so we can ship our backers a product that's optimized for 2nd Edition, no conversion notes necessary?
We're collecting advice from our current backers. But I'd also like to hear from Pathfinder fans who might back us — or even if you aren't going to back us, but have a hypothetical answer anyway.
Ouch.
I couldn't possibly offer advice at this point, seeing as how we really don't know whether Paizo is about to write their own license to print money or shoot themselves in their collective groin. But I wish you the best of luck.
blahpers wrote: Ouch.
I couldn't possibly offer advice at this point, seeing as how we really don't know whether Paizo is about to write their own license to print money or shoot themselves in their collective groin. But I wish you the best of luck.
Thanks, I appreciate it. We need all the good luck we can get.
I totally get what you're saying — I guess everyone is still soaking up the news and figuring out what it will mean. I wouldn't be surprised if there are people who never take up 2E; I forget if I mentioned this, but I know some guys who never stopped playing AD&D.
Anyway, I do want to post here for the public record that we've decided to stay the course with Found by the Way and our current Kickstarter. If the campaign funds — and we're a little over halfway there with three weeks to go — we'll keep publishing modules for 1E and play out the string. Then we'll adopt 2E when the SRD becomes available.
The kicker is that I'm promising the Kickstarter backers that I'll study the playtest version and draw up conversion notes for them, so they can run the modules with it if they like. And new modules published from that point to the official debut of 2E will have conversion notes. Plus, when 2E officially debuts I'll draw up another set of conversion notes for them, if necessary.
Just over two weeks to go in the campaign. Thank you to everyone who has backed it so far! We still need backers to make it happen, though. If the campaign doesn't fund, Ramen Sandwich Press will conclude with much regret that there just isn't enough mojo in the Pathfinder market to support Found by the Way. Let's not let down the Kickstarter fans who have already pitched in!
We're almost there! After a flurry of pledges this week, we're less than $300 short of our goal with about a week and a half left. I'm confident that the campaign will fund; it won't be hard to make up that ground with more than week left. We're down to two Early Bird Special rewards: For $60 (plus $5 for domestic shipping) you get a print copy of the compendium of Found by the Way #1-4, Limited Kickstarter-only Edition, autographed by me, and we'll throw in PDF copies of each module for free!
Thank you to everyone who has backed this campaign so far! And for those of you haven't pledged yet, there's still room on the bandwagon and time enough to get on board!
We're almost there, Pathfinder fans! Just three days left in our Found by the Way campaign on Kickstarter, but we're only $50 short of our funding goal! By all rights, we should make it, but it won't happen if everyone shrugs and says, "Someone else will do it." Don't miss your last chance to pick up the Kickstarter-only Limited Edition of the first four Found by the Way modules (the print copies will be autographed to you by me!).
Best of luck
Personally I don't use modules or AP's. What I would throw my money behind is a company that tried to remake pathfinder/3.5 in defiance of pathfinder 2nd edition.
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DougSun wrote: But we're still uncertain about the details. Do we follow through with the original plan — ship modules tailored to the current edition, knowing that they'll only be "current" for a few more months, and then send a conversion guide to all our backers after the SRD for 2nd Edition is released? Or do we hold off until the fall, so we can ship our backers a product that's optimized for 2nd Edition, no conversion notes necessary? Doug, just to be sure we're on the same timeline here: We'll be releasing the Playtest Edition this August; Second Edition is due August 2019. We won't be offering a Compatibility License for the playtest, due to the fact that we don't want to confuse the playtest environment, and due to its ephemeral nature. We will offer a Compatibility License for the finished Second Edition next year.
Good luck with your project!
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Vic Wertz wrote: Doug, just to be sure we're on the same timeline here: We'll be releasing the Playtest Edition this August; Second Edition is due August 2019. We won't be offering a Compatibility License for the playtest, due to the fact that we don't want to confuse the playtest environment, and due to its ephemeral nature. We will offer a Compatibility License for the finished Second Edition next year.
Good luck with your project!
Thanks, Vic! All good wishes much appreciated.
I was confused by the initial announcement, but subsequent posts, announcements, etc. have gotten the schedule right.
We funded late Wednesday afternoon, so all is right with the world. ;-)
Happily, our Kickstarter to launch Found by the Way funded, so we're on our way! Found by the Way #1: Path to Darkharrow and Found by the Way #2: Path to The Gnome's Argosy have been laid out; Found by the Way #3: Path to Oyster Cove is in layout; and Found by the Way #4: Path to Sylvanhome should be ready for layout by this time next week.
To those of you who discovered us through this forum and backed the campaign, thank you and you'll be hearing from Ramen Sandwich Press soon! For those of you who missed out on that campaign, we just started another, running through June 3, that gives you another chance to get in on the fun! We still have a little time before we place our order with the printer, so we're offering a second chance to pick up the same rewards that we offered in our other campaign.
Just popping back into the forum with the most recent news about Found by the Way, our contribution to the Pathfinder-compatible corpus:
All of our Kickstarter backers should have received their rewards by now. Theoretically, there may be delays for some of the overseas backers who ordered print copies, just because there always seem to be customs or delivery-related issues if your sample size is large enough. But we've checked one big item off of our to-do list.
DriveThru RPG is now reviewing Found by the Way #1, #2, #3 and #4. So they should be available in PDF by the end of the week.
With all of that said and done, we're going back to Kickstarter this week — perhaps as early as this evening, but I'll post again once the campaign is live — to pre-sell Found by the Way #5: Path to Jarnborg. What's it about? Well, there are dwarves. Mostly dwarves. Including a master weapon smith who keeps a private journal with his trade secrets written down, and the village is thrown into uproar when he discovers that it has been stolen. The smith himself does much of the roaring, but everyone is upset because his reputation for having elite-level trade secrets is the foundation of the village's prosperity. You can run it as a stand-alone, or as the beginning of a larger arc that leads into Found by the Way #6: The Demon's Veins.
I'm still digesting the Second Edition Playtest rules; if there is a need, Path to Jarnborg will include notes about conversion from 1E to the provisional 2E rules.
This Kickstarter will offer two generous backers a chance to participate in the creation of Found by the Way by naming a key NPC in Path to Jarnborg or the boss monster in The Demon's Veins. Stay tuned for details!
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