As an aside, your brick and Mortar PDF guarantee was especially important to my purchase, as I literally stood in the store, looking on your online store, suffering from the guilt of wanting the PDF and book, but alternatively also wanting to support my local store.
You see, I actually roleplay with the store owners. At their home. They are my friends. But I LOVE the ability to word search through the PDF of my books.
THANK YOU for having such a policy so that I did not feel guilt in supporting my friends.
Thanks for this service — because you’re offering the PDFs, my customer is buying reliably from me and running a game a couple of times a month, which has led to a few more purchases of the core books from me. I know that if he’d ordered online, none of this might have happened.
Evie wearing her “Man shirt! Side err! Man!”
The Rocketeer takes in a demo of the Dresden Files RPG at Chicago Wizard World.
After dinner I got a look at Do: Pilgrim’s of the Flying Temple, which I found utterly charming. I didn’t read it in-depth but I love the children’s book illustrative style, with evocative portraits and situations, the shift from illustration to paper cut-outs during the mechanics of play section, and all sorts of other great layout tricks that make it both fun to leaf through and provide anchors for finding appropriate sections later. Given my cognitive issues with content that shares illustrations and text, I have to say that the layout on this book was brilliant; instead of cluttering my mind and overloading me, I found myself getting hooked into text by the design itself. I didn’t read them all in-depth, but the sample letters I read were all very funny and full of great hooks. The text was all very accessible too. I can’t give a full review because I’m still being very strict about not getting games I’m not playing during our de-cluttering project, but it definitely gets a thumbs up on readability, cuteness, inclusiveness, child-friendly, simplicity, and fun. I think it would make a lovely starter game for kids and it looks rich enough to be fun for all-adult groups as well.
I had seen Diaspora and the Wizard Fudge dice at a game store a few weeks ago it looked kind of interesting but I didn’t think it was something my gaming group would be interested in.
A couple of nights ago I stumbled across your bits and mortar policy and really appreciated that you aren’t viewing potential customers as potential thieves. It seems few publishers share this view. I went back to the store and picked up the game because I was impressed by the stance Evil Hat is taking.
I’ve attached my receipt so that you can send me the PDF.
Fred and I have finished the ElectriCity synopsis, and holy crap, it’s going to be good. I mean, there’s some heartbreaking stuff going on in this here superhero comic (and some brilliant big-picture fights, and not a small amount of both those things at the same time), and I’m genuinely excited about making the mad rush toward trying to get it actually published. I’m gonna try pounding out the first chapter in the next couple days here, and if things go *exceedingly* smoothly with that, I may be starting our artist search as soon as Monday.
The Bulldogs! proofs have arrived.
