Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Another busy business morning…


While I cannot tell you everything that happen this busy business focused morning, I will tell you that I am working on NeoExodus: A HouseDivided related stuff which includes more products and increase the exposure of NeoExodus.  But to show you I am not all tease, here is a little something to keep you interested on our upcoming Kickstarter project.  Talk to you later…

Monday, November 26, 2012

Coming this week - Treasures of NeoExodus: Death's Folly


Louis Porter Jr. Design will be releasing its newest product for their Treasures of NeoExodus line, Death's Folly for the NeoExodus: A House Divided (PFRPG) campaign setting.  Here is information on this product:

Not every weapon has some epic tale of war, love, and loss attached to it. Some weapons’ stories are folk myths or fairy tales, never written down, and of unknown antiquity. Most of these weapons are as imaginary as the stories themselves. Some, however, indeed exist, and those who might have laughed at the tales of minstrels and old women may have an unpleasant surprise awaiting them. Death’s Folly is such a weapon.

The Treasures of NeoExodus: Death's Folly is created for use with your NeoExodus: A House Divided campaign setting home gaming for the Pathfinder RPG. The Treasures of NeoExodus series focus on creating unique and interesting magical and mundane items that you can use in your NeoExodus home games that give you more a personal connection to the item. This PDF comes with a background and history of Death's Folly, its special mundane and/or magical qualities plus magic item containing detailed information and blank versions of the cards. Everything you need to incorporate Death's Folly into your character’s background and your gaming sessions is here making them even more appealing, special and personal. Soon available at DriveThruRPG.com, RPGNow.com and Paizo.com.

Friday, November 16, 2012

[LPJ Design] Coming Next week - Treasures of NeoExodus: Euhudi’s Sacrificial Knives (PFRPG)


Louis Porter Jr. Design will be releasing its last product for their Treasures of NeoExodus line, Euhudi’s Sacrificial Knives for the NeoExodus: A House Divided (PFRPG) campaign setting at RPGNow.com and DriveThruRPG.com. Here is information on this product:

In the ancient Wyldlands of Bal, a savage people worshiped their terrible god through bloody human sacrifices. Here, the Brotherhood of Khayne survived for centuries, both in the jungles and in the city-state Xehitoch. It wasn’t until the height of Euhudi’s time as high priestess that the rest of the world would come to know just how bloody their handprint on society would be…

The Treasures of NeoExodus: Euhudi’s Sacrificial Knives is created for use with your NeoExodus: A House Divided campaign setting home gaming for the Pathfinder RPG. The Treasures of NeoExodus series focus on creating unique and interesting magical and mundane items that you can use in your NeoExodus home games that give you more a personal connection to the item. This PDF comes with a background and history of Euhudi’s Sacrificial Knives, its special mundane and/or magical qualities plus magic item containing detailed information and blank versions of the cards. Everything you need to incorporate Euhudi’s Sacrificial Knives into your character’s background and your gaming sessions is here making them even more appealing, special and personal.

Coming Next week.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

[LPJ Design] Treasures of NeoExodus: Silence (PFRPG) Now available


Louis Porter Jr. Design has released its newest product for their Treasures of NeoExodus line, Silence for the NeoExodus: A House Divided (PFRPG) campaign setting at RPGNow.com and DriveThruRPG.com.  Here is information on this product:

Whispered to have been forged with blood, sweat, and steel by an Arman warrior-priest, Silence is a shortspear with the power to turn aside spells aimed at the wielder and pierce spells on enemies. Used long ago by its creator to quiet the magical mumblings of the Sorcerer-Kings’ servants, Silence draws on the primal simplicity of the old Arman religion. It can toss aside or rebuff many forms of magic.

The Treasures of NeoExodus: Silence is created for use with your NeoExodus: A House Divided campaign setting home gaming for the Pathfinder RPG. The Treasures of NeoExodus series focus on creating unique and interesting magical and mundane items that you can use in your NeoExodus home games that give you more a personal connection to the item. This PDF comes with a background and history of Silence, its special mundane and/or magical qualities plus magic item containing detailed information and blank versions of the cards. Everything you need to incorporate Silence into your character’s background and your gaming sessions is here making them even more appealing, special and personal. Available at RPGNow and Paizo!

Follow up to Gary Ray Post and Comments

Monday, November 12, 2012

[LPJ Design] NeoExodus Chronicles: Usual Suspects (PFRPG) Now available

Louis Porter Jr. Design has released its newest product for their NeoExodus: A House Divided line, NeoExodus Chronicles: Usual Suspects (PFRPG) at RPGNow.com and DriveThruRPG.com.  Here is information on this product:

This sound familiar: You take time creating a developing the right adventure, the players have been waiting for this all session, about to meet the Big Bad Evil Guy and his legion minions. And you don’t have the legion of minions’ statistics built. Doing so many stat blocks is going to take you days and you wish there was a better way. Well now there is. NeoExodus Chronicles: Usual Suspects is a sourcebook where you will find stat blocks for nonplayer characters of various level of the unique races and classes for the NeoExodus: A House Divided campaign setting. It doesn’t matter if you are throwing together a quick encounters right at the table or planning out a long term future campaign, this must have sourcebook, NeoExodus Chronicles: Usual Suspects, does all the hard work for you.

This sourcebook includes:
  • Stat blocks for Caneus Empire NPCs including Caneus High Guard.
  • Stat blocks for Reis Confederacy NPCs including Confederate Panther Warriors and Confederate Sentinels.
  • Stat blocks for Sanguine Covenant NPCs including Covenant Daemonslayers and Covenant Purifiers.
  • Stat blocks for Dominion NPCs including Dominion Khalid Asad and Dominion Wyrdcasters
  • Stat blocks for Imperial Alliance NPCs including Imperial Apothecaries, Imperial Jannisaries and Imperial Men-At-Arms
  • Stat blocks for Janus Horde NPCs including Janus Horde Berserkers and Janus Horde Fists Of The Dragon
  • And many, many more!
  • Comes in two versions: Standard for print out; and Lite for mobile devices and tablets.
Written by Jeff Lee. Available at RPGNow!

Friday, November 9, 2012

The real reason gaming and RPG Retailers fail…

Yesterday Gary Ray of Black Diamond Games put this post up in his blog and from there they has been a FIRESTORM of comments from people on the topic of kickstarter and what it is in reference to the  retailer, what is kickstarter's responsibility is in the gaming market, loyalty to the retailer distributor model and so on. If you go to Gary’s facebook page, I commented in the thread about it.  Bur here is the comments that kind of changed it all for me:


Louis Porter Jr:  OK I have to ask as a Kickstarter publisher: Since you say "my" (I am talking in small publisher terms here) product will not sell in our store so you don't order it. But some of your customers seem to want to pick it up and fund my kickstarter. Better yet, I offer retailers a way to pick up my kickstarter project so you can have exclusive item at our location over your competition. But still you think I am "stealing" customers? I am confused...

Jim Crocker: Louis, I think it's reasonable to say you're 'stealing' the front-end excitement and heat that otherwise comes from a new product release in our stores. I am a little (a lot?) more forgiving than Gary on the long-tail value of KS product, but it's definitely not a 'win-win' for retailers. It's a compromise with the new model. (And by 'you'. I mean any publisher who uses KS as an end-run around the channel but expects their stuff to be carried there post-KS, not just you personally!)

Gareth Skarka: Now, now, Louis. Don't expect logic.

Louis Porter Jr: But here is the issue, we don't have to give you all the option as kickstarter. We could just leave you out completely AND just "take" your customers leaving you in the cold. But we are NOT doing that. We are being inclusive, and for some reason you are getting mad at us? I am sorry, WHAT?

Dusty Deal: Louis, you may be being inclusive, but the majority of Kickstarter projects I've seen lately have not been retailer friendly.

Gary Ray: I've never really carried your products so the point is moot. They haven't even been offered to me through standard channels. What we now see are many, if not most, small publishers who we used to be able to support, no longer work for us, and new ones, no longer rewarding us for taking chances on them.

Gareth Skarka: " I've never really carried your products so the point is moot. " And yet they wonder why retailers are being "cut out." Incredible.

Dusty Deal is the owner of MythPlaced TreasuresSince she is near Denver, I am going to have JP go over there and run some NeoExodus Legacies games to help build a customer base of those who might be interested in NeoExodus. Jim Crocker is the owner and operator of Modern Myths, Inc.

And with this I realized what the retailers want: They want to make ALL the money, they want to take no risk, the want to complain when they can’t get a product and they want to tell you it will not sell in their stores. 

I am sorry, but no.  Gary, I think you are a smart business man and understand your business well, but I hate to break it to you on this one, you are on the wrong side of history.

Kickstarter is the disruptive technology that retail AND distributors fear. It completely removes them from the Manufacture > Distributor > Retailer > Customer system.   With kickstarter is just Manufacture to Customer and best of all, you can raise more money than you asked for and have an actual profit on a products.  I used to support the distributor & retailer model because that is the way it was done. But now as a publisher I have MORE options: online digital sales, Print on Demand services and crowdsource funding to name a few.  Any retailer who thinks and acts like Gary, I am sorry but the future is going to get tougher and tougher for you.  I am sorry you see this as a point of conflict instead of a place for innovation, since this is going to be a LONG and painful road for you if crowdfunding continues to explode in success, like everyone suggests it is going to. Talk to you later…

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

[LPJ Design] Treasures of NeoExodus: Staff of the Red Mage (PFRPG) Now available

Louis Porter Jr. Design has released its newest product for their Treasures of NeoExodus line, Staff of the Red Mage for the NeoExodus: A House Divided (PFRPG) campaign setting at RPGNow.com and DriveThruRPG.com. Here is information on this product:

The early days of adventuring in Exodus can be traced back to the days in the aftermath of the First Ones’ reign. In those days, groups of soldiers and warriors fresh from combat and unwilling to align themselves with the new nations of Exodus found work as mercenaries dealing with the remaining servants and monstrous creations of the First Ones. They worked mainly for treasure - and in some cases power - and were often as dangerous to the people they were helping as the monsters they slayed. The concept of adventurers as heroes did not take shape until the appearance of the adventurer known as the Red Mage and his companions The Company of the Staff.

The Treasures of NeoExodus: Staff of the Red Mage is created for use with your NeoExodus: A House Divided campaign setting home gaming for the Pathfinder RPG. The Treasures of NeoExodus series focus on creating unique and interesting magical and mundane items that you can use in your NeoExodus home games that give you more a personal connection to the item. This PDF comes with a background and history of the Staff of the Red Mage, its special mundane and/or magical qualities plus magic item containing detailed information and blank versions of the cards. Everything you need to incorporate the Staff of the Red Mage into your character’s background and your gaming sessions is here making them even more appealing, special and personal. Available at RPGNow!

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

The waiting is the hardest part…

This is going to be very simple and short. Waiting for work to come in from a lot of different places, but the one that is the most important to me is the NeoExodus Chronicles: Usual Suspects NPC sourcebook.  Since the NPC Codex is coming out VERY soon, we want to release our at the same time so you can have even more cool stuff to not just add to your local Pathfinder game but your local NeoExodus game also. But we have to wait. As Jay-Z said, “I’m like a struggling doctor, I have no patients and I hate waiting.” Well I guess that means I can focus on the next Treasures of NeoExodus release. What will it be? That is a good question.  Talk to you later…

Friday, November 2, 2012

[LPJ Design] Organized Play NeoExodus Legacies: Campaign Setting (PFRPG) Now available


Louis Porter Jr. Design has released its sourcebook for their NeoExodus Organized Play line, NeoExodus Legacies: Campaign Setting (PFRPG). Here is information on NeoExodus Legacies: Campaign Setting (PFRPG):

NeoExodus is a world wracked by war and intrigue for centuries after the population broke the yoke of the First Ones. For the past 2,000 years, the nations of Exodus have fought each other. NeoExodus is a world where exploration, politics, and adventure go hand in hand. Choose your allies carefully. You may need to call upon them, as they will call upon you. Be equally careful choosing your enemies – for the same reasons! The world of Exodus needs heroes…

Designed for organized play, NeoExodus Legacies aims to put your characters in the thick of the action, giving you the power to shape the world and influence events. What your character does matters and influences the world and the campaign. A number of special interactive adventures give your character opportunities to interact and influence both NPCs and events alike. NPCs in NeoExodus are not static. Through narratives, campaign updates and the adventures themselves, NPCs and the plot change beyond the current adventure. How your character reacts to them is up to you.

This document introduces the rules on how you may play in the worldwide campaign NeoExodus Legacies, set in the world of Exodus. It contains what you need to create characters and information on how to be a game master of NeoExodus events. It also details the unique aspects of the campaign.

In addition, this sourcebook includes:
  • Campaign Basics & History of the World
  • Character Creation
  • Patrons
  • Rules of Organized Play
  • Game Master and Dealing with the Scenarios
  • Purchasing Equipment
  • The Legacy Records
  • Additional Resource for NeoExodus Legacies
  • Come in two version: Standard for print out; and Lite for mobile devices and tablets.
Written by D’Anne Nelson, JP Chapleau, Linda Weygant-Robison with Louis Porter Jr. Available at RPGNow!