Friday, October 31, 2008
[Obsidian Twilight] Support the cause!!!
So if you can help, please do. Thanks! Go here is your link to download: http://www.lpjdesign.com/downloads/OTBanners.zip
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Third writer for Obsidian Twilight Announced!!!
PS: Make sure you vote in our Obsidian Twilight Patron Project Poll.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Obsidian Twilight: Second Project writer signed
We also have another solid "YES" from another writer, who will be named later. I plan to have him work on the Obsidian Twilight Prestge Classes (Let's just say, for a setting this freaky, he was born to write for this.)
Also another major announcement: As I stated on the Paizo Messageboard: "Well I have made a decision that I will have NO ANIMAL HEADED HUMANOID RACES!!!! No Wolf-men, bird-men zebra-men or whatever. None of it!!! So now you have to think what kind of cool races I am going to make....like the Osirans who can...well you have to wait to see. "
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Obsidian Twilight = A Place Beyond Hell
Monday, October 27, 2008
[LPJDesign] Races of Fantasy: The Demigod released
Demigods are a race of outcasts, having no civilization or society to call their own. Instead they exist on the fringes of mortal civilization, trying to find a place where they fit in this world while trying to also understand their divine nature. Mortals are almost universally unnerved by Demigods; in educated lands they are treated as curiosities while in more superstitious areas they are often persecuted as bringers of ill fortune. In regions where their divine parent is well regarded they may be honored and celebrated, but most prefer to be thought of as more than their divine parent’s mascot. This leads many Demigods to live a nomadic life, wandering from settlement to settlement as they seek a place in a world that does not seem to want them or treats them as an object of worship. A great new exciting PC race for 4E.
This supplement includes:
- All the information to play the Demigods as PC Race including Personality and Relations.
- Over 5 All New Demigods Feats including Blood of the Gods and Burning Radiance
- Demigod Counters
- Initiative and Monster Cards
- Blank Power Cards (At-Will, Encounter and Daily)
- Magical Item Cards
- Initiative and Effects Tracker
- History Sheet
- Clan / Family Sheet
- Character Sheet
Written by Written by Lee Hammock. Available Here!
Obsidain Twilight: The graphic design...
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Obsidian Twilight: Playing the race card...
Friday, October 24, 2008
Obsidian Twilight: The Sixth Race
Coming Soon for 4E - Races of Fantasy: The Elohim
A new PC race for 4E. Written by Lee Hammock. Coming soon to RPGNow.com and Paizo.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Obsidian Twilight: Word Count
1. Introduction: 1k to 2K Words
2. History of the Setting: 3K to 5K
3. PC Materials: 10K to 20K words
4. GM Materials: 2K to 5K words
5. NPCs: 4K to 7.5K words
6. Adventures: 2K to 5K words
7. Extras
Total Word Count: 22K – 44.5K words
Avg. Word Count: 33.25 words
Est: Page Count: 44 – 89 Pages
Avg. Page Count: 67 pages
Obsidian Twilight: First Project writer signed plus one
[LPJDesign] ONE DAY SALE -- SUNDAY OCTOBER 26th
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Obsidian Twilight: New Spells and Subtitles
I don't know how many spells I am going to have in this setting, but I think this a good start. I am also thinking of adding a subtitle to Obsidian Twilight, like with Haven: City of Violence and NeoExodus: A House Divided. So far I have come up with Obsidian Twilight: Land of the Black Sun, but since their are FOUR suns in Kaug, it might be to solid. Oh well, there is still a lot to do on the outline so I am not worried. And I still need to start to work on the Obsidian Twilight logo. Talk to you later...
Sidetrek Adventure Weekly 2: The Undead Chronicles – The Harvest On Sale
Also don’t forget…
Sidetrek Adventure Weekly Presents: The Trodoon Gate Saga available at RPGNow.com. Available in PDF format here: http://lpjdesign.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=56569
Available in Bookshelf edition here: http://www.lulu.com/content/2807312
And coming soon…
Sidetrek Adventure Weekly 3: Empire of Tears. See the ad here: http://www.lpjdesign.com/images/SAW3Ad.jpg
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
It might be time for the Yanimator!!!!
Obsidian Twilight: Outline
1. Introduction
- Overview of the setting
- How to play in the setting
2. History of the Setting
- 20 years ago
- 10 years ago
- 5 years ago
- 1 year ago
- Now
3. PC Materials
- Epic Items
- Feats
- Prestige Classes
- Races
- Skills
- Spells
- Wondrous Items
4. GM Materials
- Environment
- New Rules
- Special Situations
5. NPCs
- Major NPCs
- Minor NPCs
6. Adventures
- Adventure Plot
- Sidetrek Adventure
- Complete Adventure
7. Extras
- Character Sheets
- Initiative Cards
- Tokens
Talk to you later...
Monday, October 20, 2008
Obsidian Twilight: Name of the world
KAUG!!!
Talk to you later...
Coming Soon: Bitter Fruit from the Tree of Woe
- All the information to play the First One (Aneishi, Exodites, Khaynites, Kobura, Kroca), as PC Races including Personality and Relations.
- Plus an all new Paragon Classes for the First One (Aneishi, Exodites, Khaynites, Kobura, Kroca).
- Over 150 All New Feats including Agonizing Spell, Blood Drinker, Feast of the Heart, Living Contagion, and Touched by Evil.
- Over 75 All New Spells including Crucify Foe, Id Assassin, Lust for Undeath, Rotting Touch, and Scry Blast.
- Character Sheet
- Miniature Counters
- Initiative and Monster Cards
This OGL 3.5 edition sourcebook for the of the world’s most popular Role Playing Game intended for mature audiences and provides a Game Master with unflinching access to subject matter that will broaden any campaign. Coming soon to RPGNow.com, Paizo and Lulu.com.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
2 bookshelves, 2 chairs, 1 desk and one entertainment center...
Why a writer SHOULD write for a percentage of sales over per word rate
Another reason you want a percentage of sale that it forces you as the writer to get outhter to promote your sales of a product. The more sales you get, the more money you make. Plus doing all this self advertising makes you more known to other companies where you can get more work. It also can help build you a fan base where you can do your own project under your own name like Monte Cook or Wolfgang Baur It is a win-win situation.
Why do you think the business is named Louis Porter Jr. Design? It is another way of marketing Louis Porter Jr.. Talk to you later...
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Should LPJ Design do a 4E product for sale?
Now I have a chair...
Friday, October 17, 2008
Obsidian Twilight: Moving a with a rapid pace
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Where is the rest of Sidetrek Adventure Weekly 2: The undead Chronicles?
BUT I "hope" to have the new furniture in the house and my computer up and running releasing products as early as next week. Besides the SAW 2 #4 to release I have 3 other product that are just in limbo. All this waiting has been to the wedding, honeymoon, moving out and getting adjusted. This is completely MY FAULT and you will be getting the remaining 3 episode of SAW 2.
Sorry again about that.
Obsidian Twilight: Patron Project
Silver Level Patron - $30
A Silver Level Patron will receive:
- The complete project with a professional, full color layout out as a PDF and access to the professional, full color soft cover Print-On-Demand final book version of the project at cost.
- Access to daily, evaluation and commentary on design discussion.
- Admittance to the daily design & development dialogue.
- Question & Answer sessions along with articles with topics chosen by the patrons with any member of the production team the patrons choose including writer, developer, artist, cartographer, editor and even the layout artist.
Gold Level Patron - $75
A Gold Level Patron will receive:
- All the standard privileges listed for Silver Level Patrons.
- Evaluate, review and suggest improvements at the initial sketch stage of interior art, cartography, layout, player handouts, and any other visual aspect or graphic elements of the project.
- The ability to choose a topic of an article from a specific staff member of your choice.
- Direct access to the project manuscript and to design Q&A sessions
- Recognition and Acknowledgment in the credits.
- 3 easy payments of $25.00 USD- Gold Level Patron. This will immediately bill $25.00 USD with 2 Recurring payments on a 30 day billing cycle, Failure to make a subscription payment results in cancelation.
Platinum Level Patron - $100
A Platinum Level Patron will receive:
- All the standard privileges listed for Gold and Silver Level Patrons.
- Receive a signed full color soft cover Print-On-Demand final book version of the project personalized to you.
- 4 easy payments of $25.00 USD- Platinum Level Patron. This will immediately bill $25.00 USD with 3 Recurring payments on a 30 day billing cycle, Failure to make a subscription payment results in cancelation.
Diamond Level Patron - $200
A Diamond Level Patron will receive:
- All the standard privileges listed for Platinum, Gold and Silver Level Patrons.
- Receive a professional, full color hardcover Print-On-Demand final book version of the project.
- Get to submit an idea in the form of a monster or prestige class which the writer(s) will incorporate into the project, which you will receive full publishing credit for.
- 5 easy payments of $40.00 USD- Diamond Level Patron. This will immediately bill $40.00 USD with 4 Recurring payments on a 30 day billing cycle, Failure to make a subscription payment results in cancelation.
Feel free to comment what you think about this rough draft. Thanks!
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Obsidian Twilight: Potential Artist
1. Reiq: His art works says it all. Plus he makes very hot looking women.
2. Jeff Wamester: We have wanted to work together for a while and this might be the right project for both of us.
3. Stanley Lau: Amazing style of work.
4. David Grier: Very cool gallery with a good sense of style.
5. Sergio Quijada: very solid artist with a respected repuation.
6. Chester Ocampo: An Imaginary Friends artist with talent to spare.
7. Catherine Lu: SUPER-Talented!!!!!
8. Ya Lee: His portfolio says it all.
9. James Ryman: Lots of RPG/CCG experience
10. Andrew AKA HOON: Just look at his website. Amazing.
So if this project does get off the ground we might actually have the money to pay these guys the rate they are looking for. We will see how this turns out. Talk to you later...Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Dark Sun + Ravenloft = Obsidian Twilight
Monday, October 13, 2008
Business NOT as usual
With the creation of the GSL, WOTC has wanted to basically “crush” what the OGL created. Personally, I think the GSL in its current form is a bad thing. The OGL had is issues also, but overall it was about making the industry stronger as a whole. And I believe it has done that. But now with the schism of the GSL and OGL, with 3rd party publishers in the middle I have to ask, “What is best for the RPG Industry?” And after much though I have to go with the answer of: BOTH. Diversity is best because not everyone likes just one thing. The more choices we have the better it is for everyone. So play 4E. Play 3.5. Play OGL. Just play RPGs. That is what is important.
Now with all that said…
==shameless plug==
If you like Eberron and like 3.5 & OGL, then take a look at NeoExodus: A House Divided. Hey, it’s free and you might like it. How can you beat FREE!!!
==shameless plug==
Talk to you later…
Sunday, October 12, 2008
What is reasonable paywise?
A lot of artist feel the going rate for art work is $100 a page. But, if it only takes you 2 hours to do ($50 a hour) is that a fair rate? If the average artist works 40 hours a week and 50 weeks per year, that's 2,000 hours per year. At $50 per hour, you'd be making $100,000 before taxes. Here are some other jobs in that salary range:
1. Captain/Pilot in Command (Large Jet) - Median Salary: $50.91 hourly
2. Art Director - Median Salary: $50.32 hourly (This is normally only freelance if you are VERY, very lucky)
3. Construction Manager - Median Salary: $50.66 hourly
4. Physicist - Median Salary: $50.40 hourly
5. Data Warehousing Manager - Median Salary: $51.00 hourly
6. Patent Attorney - Median Salary: $50.84 hourly
7. Commercial Loan Officer - Median Salary: $50.13 hourly
8. eCommerce Manager - Median Salary: $50.97 hourly
9. Professor of Mechanical Engineering - Median Salary: $50.08 hourly
10. Estate Planning Director - Median Salary: $50.67 hourly
How much is reasonable paywise? That is a good question. Talk to you later...
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
What ever happen to Xao: Island of Iron and Silk?
But the good news is that Rite Publishing is doing The Lands of the Jade Oath Patronage Project! It looks and feels how I wanted Xao to be. I might have to pick this on up when it hits the digital PDF shelves. Can't wait to see it. Talk to you later.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
If I combine the Dark Sun and Ravenloft settings, I get...
Ten Tactics for building a fan base or group for your products…
Just something for you to think about for building fan bases and groups on and offline. How many of these ideas are you using?
- Celebrate Accomplishment: Reward group milestones or goals reached, whether collective or that of a group individual, with shared praise and/or a small physical gift of appreciation.
- Share stories: Use them to build bonds and strengthen ties between group members.
- Invent rituals: Summer camps do it. So does organized religion. Great corporations have their own lingo, their own culture. How you speak and the totems and daily rituals build connection.
- Create exclusivity: Don't invite everyone to the group. Just leaders or influential people, or those with something tangible to add.
- Create a goal: Define something people want to rally around achieving.
- Listen Carefully: As well as speaking have a strong ear for what the group is saying. Trust that the group knows what it needs to grow.
- Introduce Group Members to Each Other: Listen, Learn & Introduce people to each other. Make connecting people a priority. One of the biggest fears in life is rejection. If you can help eliminate that fear you are helping somebody.
- Be the Example: Walk the walk and talk the talk...people only follow those who take their own advice and show they mean what they say.
- Build the Story of the Group. Set the Vision: Define the group's journey, goals, interactions, future, and how teamwork will get them where they want to go in a story that epitomizes what the group is about. Weave every person, skill, and resource into the story.
- Invent language: Great corporations have their own lingo, so do great sports teams and niche gurus everywhere. (separate from Invent rituals).
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
I might need a graphic designer...
Monday, October 6, 2008
LPJ Design 2008 Third Quarter Report
The second Sidetrek Adventure Weekly series; The Undead Chronicles; has been released with the first three adventures receiving excellent reviews from several of the major 3E and OGL blogs websites and specifically at RPGNow.com with its five out of five star review by Peter Ingham. The high interest level, excitement altitude in this adventure series has propelled it into one of the best selling adventure series on the OGL PDF market today. While most would be satisfied with all this going on, LPJ Design is kicking it up a notch working hard on the third Sidetrek Adventure Weekly series; Empire of Tears. As with the first and second series, this one looks to be another superstar in the making. With all the great work Werecabbage Publishing has done on this with series, lead by the amazing leadership of Line Editor Greg Oppedisano, the Sidetrek Adventure Weekly brand is a continued success.
In addition, the collection print-on-demand version of the first Sidetrek Adventure Weekly series Sidetrek Adventure Weekly Present: The Trodoon Gate Saga has been a great seller at our Lulu.com store.
On the NeoExodus: A House Divided front, we had a “slow” period with only 5 product releases. The two most recent releases; Races of NeoExodus: P’Tan and Enemies of NeoExodus: Folding Circle; have both received four out of five star reviews at RPGNow.com from Nathan Collins. With the release of Races of NeoExodus: P’Tan, longtime LPJ Design writer, Joshua Cole returns to the NeoExodus: A House Divided setting. Joshua Cole’s work on the campaign setting has been invaluable and with the several new projects planned like Lexicon Chronicles: Arcane Intelligence, Monsters of NeoExodus: Dragons and the upcoming book of evil for the NeoExodus: A House Divided setting, Forbidden Fruit of the Tree of Woe. These products should be hitting the digital shelves of RPGNow.com very soon.
With all this new excitement we have also brought the incredible artwork of Jason Walton to this fantasy punk setting. Jason Walton well known to LPJ Design fans as the original artist for the Haven: City of Violence Setting. It is great once again to be working with him again.
On the 4E front, LPJ Design has tested the gaming waters of 4E with the release of the free Initiative Cards: 4E. The Initiative Cards: 4E has proven to be a winner with fans and with that we expanded this idea with the release of Initiative Cards: 4E Custom Version. This version comes with a limited licensing agreement, that this resource can be used by RPG publishers in any of their upcoming RPG ideas or projects and use the Initiative Cards: 4E Custom Version in any of their own products as if they owned it them. With so many 4E publisher hitting the RPG PDF market daily we are planning to expand our limited licensing agreement products and line with lots of great product that will help 1st time publisher not only save money but make the right entrance in the PDF market.
With the third quarter completed, LPJ Design looks forward to the fourth quarter, better known as the “Holiday Season” with a lot of great RPG releases, monthly One Day Sales; including the once a year Black Friday / Cyber Monday Sale; and some great free product releases. The first three quarters have been solid in helping grow business for LPJ Design and this fourth quarter looks to be no different. Thanks for your support and check out our online store at http://lpjdesign.rpgnow.com.