More information on "Adventures in Middle-earth"

[Jon Hodgson]

Most of you lot are very nice people indeed.

[mirkwoodfalcon]

I like this particular tidbit from the FAQ in the post today:

...The Adventurer's Companion and Oaths of the Riddermark are both coming along very nicely. Along with some TOR releases we've not even mentioned yet...

Exciting news! My fingers are still crossed for a follow-up campaign book to Darkening of Mirkwood, following the dwarves who attempted to reclaim Moria...

[Jon Hodgson]

Must... not... tease... any... further

[mirkwoodfalcon]

Must... not... tease... any... further

Surely you can...

*rolls Persuade 4*, and I'm more than willing to spend a point of Hope if need be...

[Rich H]

Why wait a month before PDF?

I'm content to share a little more detail here - when we released Erebor, and Nick and TS stepped up, without being asked, to work all weekend delivering the PDFs. The amount of abusive mail we received from people demanding their free PDF over the weekend was simply unacceptable. So we're working on new systems.

I generally think of gamers as a pretty nice bunch, so it always dismays me when they treat the folks at tiny little RPG publishers...or even the decent, hard-working people at Wizards of the Coast...badly. I don't understand where the entitlement and petulance come from.

Me neither. We can all be arseholes every now and then but when you've just ordered something and then demand you get the pdf, and throw in some abuse for good measure, it's simply unacceptable. Personally, I'd have cancelled peoples' orders that did that. I wouldn't want their custom.

[Rich H]

I'm not sure whether I want to order this or not... I'm definitely curious but it isn't something I really need as I have TOR. Hmmmm.

[Glorelendil]

I'm not sure whether I want to order this or not... I'm definitely curious but it isn't something I really need as I have TOR. Hmmmm.

"Let's see, I'm already drunk and stoned, do I *really* need that gram....?"

When you're a junkie you don't really ask those sorts of questions.

[beckett]

I'm not sure whether I want to order this or not... I'm definitely curious but it isn't something I really need as I have TOR. Hmmmm.

You're not the least bit curious?

[Jon Hodgson]

I'm not sure whether I want to order this or not... I'm definitely curious but it isn't something I really need as I have TOR. Hmmmm.

Hmmm, I wonder whether I'll be able to communicate what I mean when I say this. Of course we want everyone to buy everything we do. Mortgages gotta get paid, and working in gaming isn't the path to personal riches for most of us.

That said, if you're really happy with TOR, and it delivers on what you want from a Middle-earth game, then you shouldn't feel in anyway obliged to buy AME. The very last thing we want to do is sell someone a game and have them later think "Why did I get this?".

The people we really want to reach are those we meet at shows (and who of course exist in even greater droves outside of conventions) who take a look at TOR, are interested, and when they learn it's not "d20" or equivalent, put it straight back down and walk away.

As I suspect we all agree, there's a lot of great stuff in TOR, and we want to bring that to that whole new audience who just don't have the inclination to learn a new system. While also continuing to make really awesome TOR material.

Contractually mandated statement: Buy everything. Several times. ( )

[timb]

*follows Jon's order*

Ok... sorta followed... I bought the Player and LM new books, once, so sue me!