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Re: Transparency Tuesday

fredhicks — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:46:09 -0000

That part of the plan is not established. :) We want to see what the post-edit draft looks like before we chart a trajectory from there.

Re: Transparency Tuesday

Garrett — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:57:17 -0000

Is Fate Core going to have some sort of "Open Beta" before it's released? Or will we simply be seeing the finished product?

Re: Transparency Tuesday

fredhicks — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:11:07 -0000

Massive revisioneering underway by Lenny and Ryan! They're working hard on making sure that it works both as an intro text for Fate noobs and as an effective and authoritative, updated toolbox for the old guard.

Re: Transparency Tuesday

Evan — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:09:50 -0000

What's up with Fate Core? Any exciting leaks to share?

Re: An Easy Thing To Miss About Kindle Book Sales on Amazon

Ken Preston — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:39:56 -0000

Impressive response, though, with a fairly detailed answer to your question and a promise to try and provide more info on future reports. Can't complain about customer service there...

Re: Transparency Tuesday

fredhicks — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:27:09 -0000

If there's controversy, I'm blessedly ignorant of it. Don't educate me.

I don't think there's any one answer to that bonus question. It depends on the needs of the game and the goals of the playgroup.

How do I think gaming will change in the intervening time? I think there will be more of it! Because right now I get precious little. Baby jail. :)

Re: Transparency Tuesday

Spomenka — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:23:07 -0000

How do you think gaming will have changed once your children become "of age" to really participate? And, bonus question, what do you think "of age" means for gaming? I know there's a lot of controversy about this, but what kind of maturity is expected "at the table?"

Re: Transparency Tuesday

fredhicks — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:06:55 -0000

Yeah, we're looking at a card game or two (Zeppelin Armada at the least, the villainous side of the SOTC universe made into a fightin' card game), the possibility of a graphic novel (tho the costs and scheduling there are really prohibitive). Over the next year or so we're focusing on continuing to expand our Spirit of the Century brand. I'm hopeful we can look at ways to expand other brands of ours as time goes on.

Re: Transparency Tuesday

fredhicks — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:04:59 -0000

How about this?

"I cannot tell you about my city without telling you about myself. My story is the city's story. My blood flows through me like silver and gold flow through Las Vegas—pooling in chips at a table, meandering in the veins and arteries of commerce, fueling the machinery of dreams.

My name is Herbert C. Plainfield. I was once an accounts receivable clerk at ShuffleMaestro, Inc., a company that manufactures those automatic shuffling machines that prevent your card counting from working at any major casino. Now...I don’t know what I am."

Re: Transparency Tuesday

fredhicks — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:03:20 -0000

Food: Gamer Chili!
http://www.deadlyfredly.com/20...

Fatherhood: Still working on that. :) Half of my daughter's bedtime rituals involves working together to tell a story, rather than reading from a book. Sometimes she just wants me to make one up, other times she is very active in providing her own details. I figure this is establishing a baseline for RP someday. :)

Re: Transparency Tuesday

Ryan P. — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:50:23 -0000

I know you shared the intro the Russian Revolution section of the Paranet Papers over on Reddit. Are there any other preview snippets that we can see?

Re: Transparency Tuesday

Spomenka — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:46:36 -0000

How do your Deadly Fredly topics "food" and "fatherhood" work into your gaming?

Re: Transparency Tuesday

Princess R — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:38:46 -0000

You've expanded from RPGs into fiction and (I hear) board games... Do you have any other expansions of Evil Hat that you're wanting to do or looking forward to? (Card games, graphic novels, space ships, etc?) :)

Re: An Easy Thing To Miss About Kindle Book Sales on Amazon

Steve Segedy — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:43:07 -0000

I suspect it has something to do with the expense of having bits carried by hand into all those remote countries. It's a dangerous job, and good couriers are expensive.

Damn curious, in any case.

Re: State of the Hat: 2012 and Beyond

fredhicks — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:18:07 -0000

Go for it! Bonus points if you stash 'em on http://evilhat.wikidot.com

Re: State of the Hat: 2012 and Beyond

Bokbredrscryer — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:50:28 -0000

Well, here's a fun idea. Would anyone (By which I mostly mean the Evilhat people) mind if we grabbed a wiki and just started cranking them out? I have a stable of around fifteen faces and ex-PCs I could throw online pretty quickly, and I'm sure any other DM has around ten or so at least. This seems like it wouldn't even really need the Hat to do anything other than say "go for it."

just my two cents.

Re: What goes into making a dice product?

QuentinHudspeth — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:57:17 -0000

Thanks for the post. Interesting and cowing stuff.

Re: What’s It Take For DRTB To Get Profitable?

QuentinHudspeth — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:50:44 -0000

I have to support your gut there, Fred. I for one wouldn't pay the $10 for the ebook, it being filled with unfamiliar authors, but $5 sat right for me.

Re: What’s It Take For DRTB To Get Profitable?

fredhicks — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:11:03 -0000

Great! You SHOULD be able to find a way to enter some reviews on the above linked sites, at least in some cases. :)

Re: What’s It Take For DRTB To Get Profitable?

Apofis — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:09:23 -0000

I'm one of those 48, started reading it on saturday night and can't stop reading, I'd very happy to add a reader review once I'm done reading

Re: Don’t Read This Book Preorder: It Lives!

Kieren Martin — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:38:24 -0000

I'd pre-order... but $36 shipping is a BIT too much for me to afford. I'll have to wait for the ebook.

On the other hand I picked up the PDF of Do while I was in the store. Cunning ploy!

Re: 2012 Q1 Sales Numbers

Serack — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:46:15 -0000

When I bought the books, I debated buying them direct, or buying them from the local gaming store. I bought them as a fan, not as a gamer, but I like supporting locally owned businesses, so I went that rout. I console myself on Evil Hat losing out on some of that revenue by using Fred's vendor tag for most of my Amazon purchases.

-Serack

Re: 2012 Q1 Sales Numbers

Jayson — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:50:24 -0000

Seems logical, though I think you didn't count preorders on DFRPG until they shipped, even though you got the revenue in advance.
It's really just a very weird scenario, a preorder for a product with multiple ship dates.

Still, looking forward to book 1 very soon.
NOT looking forward to waiting for book 2+. *whine*

Incidentally, I am going to tell you once again that I love Love LOVE your transparency on your sales. It provides a fascinating look into a very esoteric industry, and it has improved my consumer habits as well.

Re: Kickstarter: The Spike

LIsa Padol — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:59:51 -0000

I'm just staring in stunned disbelief, thinking this is going to be the best $25 I've spent this year.

Re: 2012 Q1 Sales Numbers

fredhicks — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:18:49 -0000

I'll have to figure that out, yeah. :) Probably will just count them as 1000-odd sales in the "special" column, now, since Q2's when the revenue in question was generated.