Thunderdave wrote in LotFP:Was Eldritch C@k released in a printing other than the Free RPG giveaway?For example a Kickstarter or contributor printing?
mbassoc2003 wrote in LotFP:Just watched a Raggi interview in which he states that The Random Esoteric Creature Generator was the first published item.As I recall, RECG shipped along with FFV. I think they were a sweetener for those who had already early to buy LotFP, but he lists FFV and RECG as 2008 publication and LotFP as 2010.That time gap seems a fair bit longer than I recall, and based on the numbering of the copies I received, I was in early doors. So maybe the publication dates are wrong on the spreadsheet in Google Docs.
These will be going for 50€, shipping included. But you guys have beenwaiting and waiting and I did commit to sending you all my releasesuntil Insect Shrine comes out, but at this point it's getting expensive.So here are three options on how to handle this.A: You'll take a copy of the LotFP Weird Fantasy Role-Playing box set, 1per copy of Insect Shrine you pre-ordered. Accepting this option willmean you agree that my commitment to you has been met through thisalternate product.B: You're still really wanting to wait for Insect Shrine. I intend tohave it out in the fall... Really, this time. Picking this option meansyou agree to forego and freebies from now until Insect Shrine comes out.C: You're sick of all this and just want a refund. I'll refund 12€ percopy you pre-ordered so you're not even out any Paypal charges on thedeal.Let me know which option you choose, and if you choose Option A, I needa current mailing address. These will start mailing out July 26.
mbassoc2003 wrote in LotFP:Well, the guy certainly made a name for himself in the publishing scene for the time he was publishing.
Grug Greyskin wrote in LotFP:Hitched his wagon to the wrong horse.
mbassoc2003 wrote in LotFP:So what happened?People will always buy good production quality if they perceive value. Did the buyers move away from the heavy metal horror and the weird gothic noir?A lot of the independent writers and artists seem to still be involved in independent or small collaborative projects, but I suppose those have smaller print runs and far less revenue is generated.
'allo!Most receiving this email are Insect Shrine pre-orderers, but a coupleof you are just People I Want to Send FFV to.Your FFV hard-copies are already in the mail. Don't open the envelopefrom Finland around someone you don't want to see one naughty word. Orthis wmail and attachment, actually. Darn middle F. I didn't invent thephrase though. So I'm a blameless little angel in this whole thing.Yeah.Anyway, here's the PDF version. Enjoy the farce, and maybe enjoy a goodgaming idea or three. The next thing will be serious and more usableout-of-the-box (don't think it'll be Insect Shrine, but that depends onMs. Jalo).
mbassoc2003 wrote in LotFP:New info on FFV....I must have been sent a PDF release of FFV, because the image above is a screen dump from the PDF I have, and it is not the same as the printing in Green Devil Face #1, which is also single column. But also, if you look at the digest issue of FFV, it has been condensed down to two column printing in order to reduce the page count and printing cost. The only page that is the same between the PDF I have and the hardcopy is the map on page 2 of the hardcopy which appears on page 21 of the PDF.So FFV has an initial public release (two column and numbered on the back page), a PDF which is different and dated (22nd November 2008), and then a reprint in Green Devil Face.I haven't had the chance to do a word for word check over the three to see if typos etc. give a clue to publication sequence, but I imagine my PDF sits in the middle between the two as a transition document during the process of reimaging FFV as GDF#1. However, if I can find typos in the PDF that were correct in FFV 1st Issue that that would place the PDF as a Pre-pub document, although that wouldn't tally with the date stamp on the file, which I'm assuming is James' created date, rather than my initial received date.....On the ZakS thing. Am I right in understanding ZakS was accused, then the whole US Cancel Culture machine kicked in with companies running to hide just in case people thought they were promoting such things (including RPGDriveThru and LotFP), and then at some point JERIII said, 'Enough is enough, I won't work with him but I'm not going to exclude him on Facebook so long as he behaves and doesn't talk about it." That effectively being the death knell for LotFP because he wouldn't back the Cancel Culture Vultures. Was there ever a case? Was there ever any evidence? Or was this just left wing millennial snowflakes doing what left wing snowflakes do. Acting like ar$eholes. I've dug and I cannot find any evidence that any of this is anything other than mass hysteria and slander (and an admission of guilt and a payment appear to have been made to ZakS for just that.) Anyways, seems LotFP did not understand that when children (under 25s who have not grown up yet) say to hate you must hate or lose your livelihood. He did not understand fascism. I'm sure he does now.It'll be interesting to see where JERIII resurfaces.
JasonZavoda wrote in LotFP:I don't think the Zak thing was political at all. My understanding was that it was a dangerous sexual lifestyle and direct accusations of abuse. I hadnt heard of any exoneration but I havent been following the story.
mbassoc2003 wrote in LotFP:New info on FFV....On the ZakS thing. Am I right in understanding ZakS was accused, then the whole US Cancel Culture machine kicked in with companies running to hide just in case people thought they were promoting such things (including RPGDriveThru and LotFP), and then at some point JERIII said, 'Enough is enough, I won't work with him but I'm not going to exclude him on Facebook so long as he behaves and doesn't talk about it." That effectively being the death knell for LotFP because he wouldn't back the Cancel Culture Vultures. Was there ever a case? Was there ever any evidence? Or was this just left wing millennial snowflakes doing what left wing snowflakes do. Acting like ar$eholes. I've dug and I cannot find any evidence that any of this is anything other than mass hysteria and slander (and an admission of guilt and a payment appear to have been made to ZakS for just that.) Anyways, seems LotFP did not understand that when children (under 25s who have not grown up yet) say to hate you must hate or lose your livelihood. He did not understand fascism. I'm sure he does now.It'll be interesting to see where JERIII resurfaces.