When ordering RPG's outside of the US, the shipping costs of Amazon are a godsend compared to KS and other options.
Sometimes I'm paying more for the shipping than the books themselves.

Looks like everyone likes Amazon these days (it's hard not to).
Bezos's net worth jumped 13 billion dollars in one day.

Let that sink in a bit.

Quote from: Mistwell;1141110Can anyone here offer a review of Veins of the Earth? I hadn't heard of it until today, but it looks really good from a brief look at reviews and previews.

This review makes it sound superb.

Just re-posting this in case it was missed. Would love to hear some feedback about that book?

The stuff about the survival element and light being super important is a very real part of it.  I stuck some veins style caverns beneath the sewers of the city and the players went down there for like two sessions and eventually found their way back out.  It was sort of extra grim and dangerous and different from what they were after so they never went back down there.  it really does a very different thing with the underworld than the typical D&D style underdark.  They spent a lot more time exploring the sewer/undercity which was more traditional D&D fare.

I think I recommend it, but it's just quite unique in actual play I can't say for sure everyone will like it.  It wasn't what my more traditional minded dungeon exploring players were after.

At the rate things are going all publishers will be broke. A lot of people getting free cheese will no longer have a source of income by August. Technically it will snowball and start affecting every other business. Even the few people who had the luxury to work from home for the last few months will likely be getting a phone call or pink slip by mail it seems. If we don't stick together the hobby could go under before anyone sees it coming.

Quote from: FelixGamingX1;1141314At the rate things are going all publishers will be broke. A lot of people getting free cheese will no longer have a source of income by August. Technically it will snowball and start affecting every other business. Even the few people who had the luxury to work from home for the last few months will likely be getting a phone call or pink slip by mail it seems. If we don't stick together the hobby could go under before anyone sees it coming.

I kinda want to see that.  Mind you I only want the industry to die out so that a new industry will raise from the ashes.  A industry that refuses to bend the knee for it understands that it only brings death.

Quote from: FelixGamingX1;1141314If we don't stick together the hobby could go under before anyone sees it coming.

That is highly unlikely.

The demand for TTRPGs may go down, but it won't vanish. And frankly, having some publishers die is an advantage to the other publishers competitively.

When the demand bounces back, new publishers will open up, bringing in new ideas.

That's the creative destruction of capitalism at work.

The hobby will be fine using free or dirt cheap materials. When the Bat Plague knocked over our RL campaigns, we immediately started two new ones on Roll20 and Google Hangouts. This was probably the cheapest form of entertainment to a bunch of people with decent Internet access.

If LotFP doesn't survive this...it dies a martyr.

Quote from: FelixGamingX1;1141314At the rate things are going all publishers will be broke. A lot of people getting free cheese will no longer have a source of income by August. Technically it will snowball and start affecting every other business. Even the few people who had the luxury to work from home for the last few months will likely be getting a phone call or pink slip by mail it seems. If we don't stick together the hobby could go under before anyone sees it coming.

Won't happen to me. I have yet to put a penny into my products. Of course, they have no production values, the sales are slow and  none of you lot even look at them but the people who have bought one have bought others and I'll make do without the expensive art. I'll confess, I might have put a little money into art this year but the poker rooms around here have been closed and I'm not spending my money on hobby publications.

Bill, start a thread about your games and experience in game publishing in the Development forum. I had no idea you wrote anything and just saw you wrote Glory Road. I know nobody liked how Zwei-bitchnugget overly pimped his stuff, but the "build it and they will come" plan just isn't a plan.

Quote from: WillInNewHaven;1141898Won't happen to me. I have yet to put a penny into my products.

Same. I wrote a couple of adventures and donated the proceeds to charity. I'll continue to work on a couple of new ones and do the same. /shrug

Quote from: Snowman0147;1141360I kinda want to see that.  Mind you I only want the industry to die out so that a new industry will raise from the ashes.  A industry that refuses to bend the knee for it understands that it only brings death.

Instead the cultists and suits will ensure that what rises from the ashes is something more easily manipulated and controlled. Breed loyaler stupider cattle and better ways to brainwash any of the outliers if they cant be eliminated.

I think we will, and are, seeing a boom in indie games. But that bubble will likely burst at some point. Either from oversaturation, which is already a problem. Or from the cult gaining control of venues or other means to shut down these pockets of resistance.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1141901Bill, start a thread about your games and experience in game publishing in the Development forum. I had no idea you wrote anything and just saw you wrote Glory Road. I know nobody liked how Zwei-bitchnugget overly pimped his stuff, but the "build it and they will come" plan just isn't a plan.

I did that. Thanks for the suggestion.