If you’re in or around Middleton, WI – I’m Board Games and Family Fun has copies of Dungeon World on the shelves. Another happy Merchant Prince has their loot!
If you’re in or around Middleton, WI – I’m Board Games and Family Fun has copies of Dungeon World on the shelves.
If you’re in or around Middleton, WI – I’m Board Games and Family Fun has copies of Dungeon World on the shelves.
That picture makes me wonder if indie games influenced the shift back to digest size in the Essentials line.
Congrats !
Jonathan Walton it’s funny, because it was totally circular for us – we did the digest size because we loved Essentials so much, but if you look at how amazing the Burning Wheel books are, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to imagine Essentials was indie-inspired, too.
Nice to see Tentacle City on that shelf too!
Looks like I might need to make a road trip!
Adam Koebel Totally. Makes me wonder if we’ll ever see a shift away from design-by-committee too. Will the core of D&D ever be solo-authored or designed by just a couple of folks ever again?
THEY DO????????
I’ve been meaning to check out I’m Board for the longest time…
Jonathan Walton I suspect that probably not, so much. I mean, D&D has become a business. Single-author games are a hobby, for the most part, right?
Also, I bet you anything we do the digest thing for a while, then the OD&D box-of-booklets thing, then someone makes a big boxed set, then a big hardcover again. Then we stop making books altogether and use brainwave data transfer to roleplay in the cyberunconscious.
Yeah, publication formats are going to keep changing, definitely. The revivial of boxed sets has already begun, alongside RPGs-as-card-games.
I wish Goblinoid (and maybe more OSR folks?) would jump on the digest bandwagon. I’ve actively avoided picking up print copies of Labyrinth Lord and Mutant Future for solely that reason. Format is one of the big deciders for whether I buy print these days. That said, LotFP has printed some gorgeous digest-sized stuff.
Jonathan Walton I bet if we did the DW kickstarter over, we’d do more scout books, a smaller main book and chuck it in a boxed set with some play-aids. EXPENSIVE though.
The per-unit cost on Freemarket was something insane, if I remember correctly.
Daniel Lofton I love that digest sized Lamentations boxed set so much.
After I release a game packaged in a custom-printed LP sleeve, my next trick will be releasing a series of booklets connected together by the same folding cover, so you can read multiple booklets at the same time, but they’re still one physical object to carry around (I’m 100% serious): http://www.onlab.ch/?ids=2,-1,38,82
Yeah that shit is great. One thing that really needs to be considered is how format inspires play. Delivery vector really matters – as much as choosing cards vs. dice vs. bidding chips as a randomizer.
So far we’re 100% on having Fiasco and D&D shelved next to us.
Which is riiiiiiiight where I want to be.
Is dungeon world hard copy for sale now??
Barry Baker only in stores who were our Merchant backer levels! It’ll be available in some online retailers and to stores in early March.
SNAGGED IT! In fact, I suspect that I snagged the very copy visible in that photograph.
Three remain.
Good to know. Now I may be able to pick up extra copies!
Sean Kelley – If you go there soon let me know and I’ll have you pick me up a copy.
Living out here in Richland Center I don’t get a chance to get to MIddleton often 🙁
I may stop there today.Got a couple coming over and I need to maybe pick up a game. If they have it, I’ll pick up a copy for you and let you know.
Sweet! Thank you sir!