Topic: Product 2 Released!

[Defendi]

The Last Free City/The Festering Earth
By Robert J Defendi

The Last Free City:
As Felric's Redoubt goes, the world follows. Felric's Redoubt is crumbling.
Veteran game designer Robert J Defendi brings you a world of darkness and danger, where a monolithic church has split into dozens of quarreling factions and holy war looms like a shadow. Here, strength and brutality win the day and only those with the most faith, honor, and courage can stand against the terrible tyranny of those who would enslave everyone of a different belief, a different philosophy, a different race.
Worse, it is a world infected by the very fabric of Hell itself.
City of Secrets. City of Lies. The Land of Freedom. The Land of the Almighty Coin. The Hub of Civilization. All these and more describe the city of Felric's Redoubt. But there is something more. Everyone knows the world will end when the Chaos in the east consumes it. Everyone knows this, but a small band of people hope it. Not because they want to see the world destroyed, but because that will happen in some unknown future.
Felric's Redoubt is a threat now.

The Festering Earth:
An adventure that spans ten thousand years.
Episode Two in The Moving Shadow Campaign.
Felric's Redoubt is one of the biggest cities in the world, but when the bishop is killed by a mysterious and near-invisible serial killer, the city falls into a panic. Someone must go to Felric's Redoubt and brave the politics of church and city long enough to find the mysterious murderer and track him back to his lair.
An adventure for 6th level characters.

Requires Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing, HARP, or Rolemaster Standard System to play.

http://finalredoubt.com/store/

[Defendi]

Okay, I'm going to eat breakfast now.  Playtest copies and the like should go out starting when I'm done.  There might be a little delay to any questions or comments.

[ob1knorrb]

Got the email yesterday, purchased and downloaded the files today.  Haven't had a chance to read them yet

[Defendi]

Great!  Taking over the world one sale at a time. 

[Defendi]

I love this part.  We're, what, 30 hours into it?  Some stats for those of you who volunteered to buy on RPGNow and want to know how much you've helped.

As of Brent's pruchase, we're the 13th ranked d20 product this month.  d20 and HERO are my biggest growth products, so that's an important one.  We're just a couple places from the d20 status cards and updated spell card, which are hovering at the bottom of the hot sellers.

If you run by all categories (which I don't think includes d20) you get HARP as 20th.

In non d20, RM is 12th and HERO 16th.

In publisher by rating, we're 12th. (Not effected by this, but good to know)

We've climbed 19 places in publisher ranking by dollars, 31 by qunatity.

I think five sales in all products will put us firmly on the field.  I hope so, because I only have about that many volunteers oustanding. 

[kedrake]

Order sumbitted, download began...

[Defendi]

Great!

Hey, thanks to the help of all you all, we're 12 and 16 on the hot sellers list today (OGL and HARP).  I think we'll get all four versions on at one point.

[GerikGnome]

I've got OGL-11, HARP-12, RM-15, and HERO-18 as of 3:55pm 12/21. 

[Defendi]

Yeah, no new sales in the intervening time, so there must have been an update or something. 

[Grafton]

downloading from rpgnow.com right now. Thanks for the work, Defendi!!!

[Defendi]

Okay, we're doing great at #9 (no movement since yesterday).  So if you're one of the volunteers with coupons, still go to RPGNow (there are still a good number of you left).  If not, buy on my store (www.finalredoubt.com).  I hoping to send the artists nice checks for the new year and not have to wait a full month for the RPGNow money to come in.  They've earned it.

Thanks, everyone.

[ironmaul]

Any chance of seeing some of the artwork Rob? or the artists web site perhaps?

[Defendi]

Okay, I put something together quick and dirty.  REAL quick and REAL dirty.  I don't have a good way to change the res of an image on my laptop without it looking horrible, so the preview art might take a while to download.  I update most of the site, barring the Dev Journal.  The front page has a new image and the text there is the flavor text from the beginning of the new product.  More a mood piece than the excitement of the former one.  I added a 20th preview that's art from the new product.  If you want to go straight there, its:

http://www.finalredoubt.com/Preview_20.htm

Enjoy.

[Defendi]

6th, 10th, 13th, 14th on RPGNow.

Go to www.finalredoubt.com/store to eliminate the middle man.

[mocking bird]

8/10/14/16 now so looks like things are going strong.  Now we just have to see how the 'buying things I didn't get for Christmas so I will get it myself' rush turns out.

Still reading it myself - seriously contemplating making a spreadsheet or something with details about all the organizations & home bases.  But it is looking good.

[Defendi]

Cool.  I'm glad you like it.  Sales are a little slow, and I think the reviews are a part of it.  At this point in the first product I had more customer reviews (thanks for the customer who did this time!) and a staff review (I pushed the customer reviews harder on the first product, too).  Only one staff person has even downloaded it so far.  But I'm not worried, as I said.  I expected a slower start at Christmas.

This morning good things happened.  OGL is at 7 today, it was 10 last I saw.  That's why I'm not worried.  I couldn't gain three spots with one morning of "slow" sales if the sales were slower than everyone elses.  So things are good!