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Carl becomes a POD person

Carl Cravens announces that he's getting into publishing:

I'm starting a publishing company to publish Fudge-compatible PDFs, and eventually larger POD works. ... Yes, I have a company name and I've registered a domain name. I'm not going to tell you the name until I have something to show. Gotta keep you in suspense about something.

What am I going to publish, you ask?

My focus is going to be on short, interlocking books... I'm thinking around 32 pages max, unless that turns out to not work for what I'm doing. They should be fairly affordable... maybe $5.50 for 32 pages. (More expensive per-page than 3rd Edition GURPS books... but we're talking a niche market here.)

I'm going to start with a free "quick-start" fantasy rule set based on Fudge. It will be a "complete" rule set, with all the options set (no "toolkit" here), but it will be bare-bones. After that, I'll be building a fantasy world, about 32 pages at a time. The opening book will be kind of like The Keep On the Borderlands... it will contain a little bit about the world, some detail about a specific area, containing an adventure and enough material to get you started. The world is one that my wife and I started working on a couple years ago... it's familiar enough that your D&D-playing buddy will be comfortable in it, but it has enough twists and turns to keep things interesting.

Fudge really needs some decent settings. It will be interesting to see how this one turns out, especially when it's published in small 32 page installments.

Posted by TimHall at June 23, 2006 11:53 PM | TrackBack
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Technology is making self-publishing so easy!
A friend of mine has just published on www.lulu.com and from the title I'm guessing that it is inspired by an RPG campaign which ran for about five years but folded about six years ago.
Anyway, search there for Tony Cotterill if you like.

Posted by: Michael Orton on June 25, 2006 09:09 PM

The Parallax Club. That definitely sounds familiar. Is it based on the actual campaign, or does it just use the same setting?

Posted by: Tim Hall on June 26, 2006 09:31 PM

I'm not sure, but I think it is, which is why I'm not going to pay to download it myself.

Posted by: Michael Orton on June 28, 2006 07:45 PM

It has the same setting, but isn't a write-up of any of the campaign sessions.

Posted by: Paul Howe on August 29, 2006 11:43 AM
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