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With SinisterAdventures.com now down and expired, have you been officially Razor Coast-ed?

Have you been Razor Coast-ed? Sinister Adventures web site is DOWN?!?!?!? The SinisterAdventures.com domain name expired on 2011-02-27. What does that mean for Razor Coast? For all those who pre-order hoped you got your money back. 

What we are up to at LPJ Design - 11/8/10

LPJ video comment to "Did Nick Logue burn people with pre-orders?" blog ...

Did Nick Logue burn people with pre-orders and kill his repution with Razor Coast fiasco?

While going over old files I saw the original ad for the creation of Sinister Adventures and the preorder for Razor Coast and it got me thinkinking.  I don't know Nick Logue personally and the quality of the work he does is second to none.  He really is a expert in the area of gaming writing. But in the area of the business of running a RPG company, well I don't need to or have to beat him up over this, but he has fallen flat on this. Completely flat.  The original post about Sinister Adventure and Razor Coast was on April 1, 2008. But now going on nearly 3 years, many feel that this project can be considered vaporware not matter what the Sinister Adventure forums might say.  The last time his front page website was updated was October 1, 2009 with this: Announcing the Anarchist Gamemaster Cookbook: Recipes for Games That Don't Suck.

[OK here comes Rant & Dig] You know what games really don't suck? Ones that come out. Sorry, Nick, but it is true. [/Rant & Dig].

Now what really makes me upset over this whole thing is that I offered to take it over the development to help get it out in June 2010 but Nick decided to go another way with it and get some of the Werecabagges to help him with it.  Good move! What ever helps get it out is a good thing.  And month later, still no product. So I thought, is this enough of a mess up to get people to never buy products from Nick Logue again? Since I don't know the amount of people who pre-ordered, who knows how much money was raised (and or lost) on this project.  I would guess it was at least 100 people who preordered which meanss it generated at least $3,000 but I am guessing that figures was much higher.  And weirder still, why does he still have the link offering that you can preorder this product even though you actually can't?

Here is a question to all these people reading this blog: What would it take for you to be considiered to be "burned" and have someone ruin their repution with you?  Talk to you later...

LPJ Design has been in talks with Nick Logue about purchasing Sinister Adventures and Razor Coast…

While officially I can not tell you exactly what is going on with my conversations with Nick Logue over Sinister Adventures and Razor Coast; I can say he was very thankful for the offer I made. In addition to LPJ Design, several other people had shown interest also in Sinister Adventures. Nick seemed very committed to release Ebon Shroud and Anarchist Gamemaster Cookbook before making a specific decision to the LPJ Design offer.  I hope this is something we can both work out for the continued success of both of our companies. We will keep you updated as things happen. Talk to you later…

Should LPJ Design buy the rights for the Razor Coast setting from Sinister Adventure and release it?

Before we answer the question that was asked with the title of this post, I must say that I have a large amount of respect for Nick Logue, Sinister Adventure and what his plans are with Razor Coast. I can’t wait to see what he has planned.

Now since all the niceties are over, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty. Razor Coast sounded like a great idea from the start. I liked everything that Nick had planned to do with this setting he was developing. It was going o be great to see what Nick had planned. So I waited. And waited. And waited. And waited. And waited. And waited. And waited some more. But after waiting a year I think Nick might be underwater with this project. There are a lot of reasons why this might of happened but it doesn’t matter. What matters is how can this incredible project get on the market? So we go back to the title of this post: Should LPJ Design buy the rights for the Razor Coast setting from Sinister Adventure and release it?

While I don’t think Nick will actually sell LPJ Design the rights to do Razor Coast, (If you are interested Nick send me an email) I would like to do whatever I can to help this project move along. Just let me know what I can personally do to help get this project back on track and out to the fans of your work (Which does include me.) Hope to hear from you soon. Talk to you later…

Vaporware: Razor Coast

I hate when I see something interesting and I can't get it when I see it. It drive me crazy. Razor Coast is one of those projects.

(PS: I have done the same thing to the fans of Obsidian Twilight, but that is a rant for another day. Now we are talking about my issues.)

I heard about what this was and I got interested. I heard Nick Logue was handling it, and I got even more interested. BUT this project has been suffering from vaporware. Now, I know Nick is now in a new foriegn country, has a new job and in very busy realigning his life, BUT come on!!!! This looks cool as hell and I want to give you money for it. Don't leave me hanging too long on this. Yes Nick I am calling you out! Talk to you later...