Recent content by Staffan

Oh right, I finally got the physical Draw Steel books I had ordered from my FNSLGS, just before leaving town to celebrate Christmas with family. I also have my physical copy of The Han Cluster on its way, having cleared customs just before Christmas. So I'm hoping to get it before New Year's.

Like many countries, Sweden has a tradition of advent calendars where you open a little flap on the calendar for every day in December until Christmas (which is celebrated on the 24th here – the religious part is still on the 25th for those who care about that, but the family stuff is on the...

That's a fairly clever way to do it. If you're doing something like the original trilogy, having Luke as "the Jedi" is sufficient differentiation from Han as "the Scoundrel", Leia as "the Badass", and Chewbacca as "the Big Dude". But in a Force & Destiny campaign, where everyone is a force user...

We call those "Snoopies". Can't be unseen.

I think (hope) you got your companies confused there. Wildspire are the ones cleaning up part of the mess Blacklist Games left. As far as I can tell, they're doing right by BLG's customers by (a) giving them STLs for free and (b) offering actual minis at a substantial discount.

Certain. The dump truck only comes by occasionally, while the Internet is providing a steady stream of crap.

Well, it's not a big dump truck, that's for sure.

Which is why you should only do them if they require very little additional development work, so the manufacturing step doesn't have time to change up their prices. I mean, I've never published anything myself, but I imagine that something like "spell cards" is pretty low-hanging fruit.

Another thing is that the game explicitly supports victory conditions beyond "kill them all". This can be as easy a variant as "Kill that one in particular" or "Kill half of them", but it can also be things like "Bring Macguffin to the spot" or "Protect this thing" or whatever else.

I think there can be a place for physical stretch goals, but you'd need to be careful with them. I think one place where they can be useful is material extracted from the main product, where minimal development effort is needed for the stretch goal. I'm thinking of things like cards containing...

I think Covid and the disruptions it caused is to blame for many of these failures. The disruptions to Chinese manufacturing as well as shipping caused production costs to rise in ways sellers had not accounted for, and did not have the margins to cover. Digital stuff is of course not as...

The time travel in Fate of Cthulhu is more a background element, explaining why the PCs are doing what they're doing. You don't have PC's hopping back and forth between the future and the modern day. Think Kyle Reese in Terminator: he knows he has been sent on a one-way trip, and he does not...

I have to ask then: have you checked out Fate of Cthulhu? It's basically Call of Cthulhu meets Terminator/Twelve Monkeys: one of the Old Ones have risen and more or less destroyed humanity, but the PCs are a last-ditch effort to be sent back in time to stop the rise before it happens. Only the...