Transparency Agenda Daily May 27th - Paizo Con without me

Transparency Agenda #018: Back from PaizoCon 2013

[LPJ Design] Announces the 1st ALL FEMALE written Adventure Path for Kickstarter, Empire of Tears

For all of you who were not at PaizoCon, you missed the little reveal/announcement that was made about out NEXT kickstarter, after we finish sending out our current two kickstarter; Free RPG Day 2013 & Obsidian Apocalypse. 

This new kickstarter named Empire of Tears will be coming in early 2014 and it will be our 1st ever adventure path for Pathfinder. What makes Empire of Tears so different from any other adventure path out there? Well first off it is going to be completely written by Female RPG writers. Christina Stiles is heading this one up as the project manager and we have several other well-known and respected female RPG writers in the industry who are "available for this project".  The Empire of Tears adventure Path will be easily to integrate into any generic, retail store run or homegrown Pathfinder campaign. This adventure path then takes your party on journeys to new and unique locations including the world of Exodus, campaign world for the NeoExodus: A House Divided Campaign Setting.

We are also looking to do some threshold goals that we will be teaming up with other well know 3PPs to provide great add-ons, encounters and side treks tied to this adventure path and their own campaign worlds.

Expect to hear more about this kickstarter project in coming months.

PaizoCon: At the store. ..

PaizoCon: At the store. ..

PaizoCon: At the store. ..

PaizoCon: On the Plane...

PaizoCon: Waiting to board

PaizoCon: Lucas says goodbye. ..

Off to Paizocon!

Expect pictures and updates as I go along to reach PaizoCon. First Stop: Ft Lauderdale Airport. 

LPJ Design Invades PaizoCon in 25 days!

Louis Porter Jr, JP Chapleau and Jeff Lee all in one place at one time spreading the gospel of Pathfinder.  Basically this is a sign of the Apocalypse. Seattle will never be the same! And there is a good chance you will hear some of the craziest gaming stories you might ever hear.

Plus you can attend the three seminars Louis Porter Jr. will be taking part in: So You Want To Be a Pathfinder RPG Compatible Publisher, How to Find an Artist for your Pathfinder Compatible Product and NeoExodus: Inside the Campaign World of Exodus!

If you are going to be at PaizoCon, come to our booth and say "Hi"! You never know what we might have for you to take a look at!  Talk to you later...

Driving Along and Talking about LPJ Design

POD Printing and the RPG Business

Back from PaizoCon & What is upcoming at LPJ Design

We are back from PaizoCon!

We just got back from PaizoCon and we need to decompress, but we will have all kinds of cool information of what happened and what is going on next. So just wait a little bit more so we can build our strength up again and we will let you know. Now with all that said, I will tell you that I, personally and business wise, had an AWESOME time at PaizoCon and it is now going to be one of our regular con trips.  Talk to you later...

Leaving for Seattle AKA NeoExodus Invades PaizoCon

Well today is the day and I am leaving for PaizoCon in a few hours.  I am going to take a lot of pictures detailing my journey to the far off lands of Seattle. Plus I hope to make even more new friends on this adventure.  If you are going to be at PaizoCon come by the LPJ Design booth/table so I can talk you up all the interesting things about NeoExodus, Obsidian Apocalypse and other cool stuff that we have not revealed yet.  Also stop by the seminar I will be having called So You Want to Be a Pathfinder Compatible Publisher on Saturday July 7^th at 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM in the Robert Hughes Room with Dale McCoy (Jon Brazer Enterprises), Scott Gable (Zombie Sky Press), Gary McBride (Fire Mountain Games), Liz Courts (Paizo Publishing) and Neil Spicer (Legendary Games). Plus you can see the first meeting IN PERSON between JP Chapleau and me. Expect and lease a few fights to break out between us.  So when I get back from all the excitement of PaizoCon I will have TONS of great news for you and lots of great stories to tell.  Talk to you later…

LPJ Design invades PaizoCon!

JP might be right…I know it sounds scary right…

Last week, JP and I were talking about Obsidian Apocalypse and he was giving me “feedback” on what he thought about it. (And when I say “feedback” I mean JP was cursing me out, yelling and point at me and calling me stupid and all kinds of names OR as all call it a typical Thursday.)   After this “feedback” meeting, I took some of his ideas to heart and I starter to work on them in rough draft form in my head. 

On Sunday while sitting down and making some notes of the Obsidian Apocalypse setting, a little voice in my head asked me a very simple but profound question: Why are you making this setting?  My first answer was the typical one of want to do another cool setting that people showed interest in.  Then my little voice in my head asked me an even better question:  Why was I focusing on Obsidian Apocalypse instead of NeoExodus?

And that is when it hit me like a ton of bricks.  I think I was using Obsidian Apocalypse as a distraction from my NeoExodus work.  I mean I have TONS of NeoExodus work to do, but I was placing all to the back burners for Obsidian Apocalypse. While Obsidian Apocalypse is exciting because it is the new shiny toy, NeoExodus is what I have been focusing on for five plus years.  Plus most importantly doe we really need ANOTHER campaign setting for Pathfinder? I mean there are tons coming out already for Pathfinder and no matter how exciting it will be, do I really want to build a complete support system for another campaign world setting? I barely have enough time for NeoExodus, why the hell do I think I have enough time for  NeoExodus and Obsidian Apocalypse?  So after all the thinking and contemplating, I decided that it is best NOT to do Obsidian Apocalypse as a campaign setting. I would be silly to a full blown setting for Obsidian Apocalypse. 

But then the little voice in my head said (As you can see my little voice is WAY TOO TALKITIVE) that since I have already paid for the writing and artwork, instead of making an OK campaign setting, why don’t you turn it into an  AMAZING one of a kind adventure. A kind of adventure that does homage to the original Ravenloft adventure where players get a taste of the setting with the adventure without all the baggage of what a campaign setting must have.  And with that, Obsidian Apocalypse is NOW going to be an adventure. We are still going to do the funding with kickstarter so all that says in play. Better yet, if one of my conversation at the upcoming PaizoCon goes well, I hope to announce that we be attaching a VERY WELL known name in the horror genre for Pathfinder to this adventure.

 

I think this is the better move for Obsidian Apocalypse in the long run. I am “planning” for this adventure to be between 32 to 48 pages in length with fantastic new artwork. So be sad there will not be a Obsidian Apocalypse campaign setting, BUT be VERY GLAD that we are going to do a adventure that will go down in the legendary chronicles of Pathfinder adventures.  Once again thanks for your support of us and this change.  

Well I guess JP can be actually right, once and a while. But so it a broken clock. Talk to you later…

Early Morning Update with LPJ about LPJ Design

New Iconics for NeoExodus ans waiting for PaizoCon