What happened to San Angelo?

[Bud Gray]

A friend of mine is thinking of running a San Angelo campaign and I was wondering whatever happened to that setting. Gold Rush Games website has been down for a while or it moved to I don't know where, and last I looked they were planning a second edition with 5th edition stats and an updated setting. Has that been abandoned?

[TheQuestionMan]

IIRC, Mark posted somewhere on these forums what basically is a quote from John Lennon "Life is what happens while you are making other plans."

Mark Arsenault - San Angelo: City of Heroes
http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?o...creatorid=2169

RPMiller - San Angelo: City of Heroes
http://www.herogames.com/forums/member.php?u=42

Gold Rush Games - San Angelo: City of Heroes
http://www.sacoh.com/

SACoH Yahoo Group
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/SACoH/

Astro City HERO - Susano's Surbrook's Stuff
http://surbrook.devermore.net/adapta...har.html#astro

The Dragon's Gate: San Angelo's Chinatown
http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10013.phtml


Cheers


QM


P.S.: Another great product for Gold Rush Games' Anthony J. Bryant is Sengoku
http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/

[TheQuestionMan]

Originally Posted 08-21-2007, 05:02 AM on RPGnet
What happened to Gold Rush Games?

Thanks to everyone here who has expressed concern about the "demise" of GRG. And thanks, also, to Rob Miller who let me know about this thread once I was back in contact with the world. Also many thanks to Greg Stolze and others for the words of support.

Unfortunately, I have been exceptionally slow to do any sort of updating on GRG items, from the web site to projects. For those who really want the skinny... The long and the short of it is that with Margaret at home taking care of our daughter and me back to work full-time outside of the house, I have ended up working a tremendous amount of over-time. What little precious "free time" I have left is taken up largely by familial commitments, leaving little meaningful time to work on GRG projects.

Add to this the fact that I had some server issues and all of my goldrushgames.com e-mail was blocked (returning "bounce" or rejected messages to all senders) starting back in May or June. This went one for several months before I realized that I was getting none of the mail from those servers (I was still getting e-mail from other addresses, so I thought it was just a "slow period" for GRG-mail-related messages).

Well, the issue was resolved and mail is coming through again. The next step is to try to salvage the web site. I still have no idea what;s happened there.

Apologies to anyone who's been waiting for me to respond to one message or another. If you tried to contact me in the last three months or so, assume I never got your message and feel free to resend it t me.

Action! System is dead? Well, I've long held that the life of a product is in the hands of the consumers, not our. We could crank out two new products a month all year long but if no one bought and used them, then the system would be effectively "dead." The reverse is true for products with no new support material coming out.

As a fellow consumer and gamer, however, I totally understand how some of you feel about the A!S. I had big plans, decent execution, and lousy follow through. The fix? A relaunch starting with Second Edition. When? Not for some time. I have things going on in my life right now -- and for the foreseeable short term -- that will all but prevent me from doing any substantial work on it (or Sengoku 2nd Ed for that matter).

I'd like to round up some help to develop these products. That is probably the next practical step.

Once again, thanks to everyone. And good gaming!
__________________
Mark Arsenault
President, Gold Rush Games
Action! System now OGL!
Eureka! Publishing & Distribution

[Lord Liaden]

Thank you for unearthing and transcribing that, TQM.

Just to add a bit of data: Gold Rush Games did publish an additional supplement for San Angelo a few years ago, with multiple game stats including HERO Fifth Edition: The Dragon's Gate: San Angelo's Chinatown. Apparently the sales for it were disappointing, which dampened GRG's enthusiasm for updating the setting generally. (Dragon's Gate was published in both hardcopy and PDF - I'd have to check on the Internet as to whether the PDF is still available for purchase.)

Despite that disappointment, GRG did hire one of our board colleagues, Rob Miller, who posts here as RPMiller, to revise and expand San Angelo. Unfortunately, with the state of the company as prez Mark Arsenault describes it above, that project has been languishing. Rob Miller would likely be the person to ask about its current status. Hopefully he'll see this thread and offer some input. (I just sent a Private Message to Rob pointing out the thread to him.)

[TheQuestionMan]

If your interested I can email you the unstated sourcebooks; Arroyo Verde - High-Tech San Angelo.pdf , PART Sourcebook.pdf , and the San Angelo City of Heroes Map.pdf .


Cheers


QM

[Fry Daddy]

Question Man, I would definately be interested in the pdfs you mention.

[aylwin13]

If your interested I can email you the unstated sourcebooks; Arroyo Verde - High-Tech San Angelo.pdf , PART Sourcebook.pdf , and the San Angelo City of Heroes Map.pdf .


Cheers


QM

I would also be very interested in those items. I plan on using SA for my campaign city when I start running my game.

[clsage]

If your interested I can email you the unstated sourcebooks; Arroyo Verde - High-Tech San Angelo.pdf , PART Sourcebook.pdf , and the San Angelo City of Heroes Map.pdf .
Cheers
QM

Add me to the chorus looking to take a gander at those pdf's, and thanks !!
My current Team Norfolk campaign owes much of it's inspiration to San
Angelo.

And yes, those who are in that campaign should probably avoid reading that
supplement....

-Carl-

[Spence]

Thank you for unearthing and transcribing that, TQM.

Just to add a bit of data: Gold Rush Games did publish an additional supplement for San Angelo a few years ago, with multiple game stats including HERO Fifth Edition: The Dragon's Gate: San Angelo's Chinatown. Apparently the sales for it were disappointing, which dampened GRG's enthusiasm for updating the setting generally. (Dragon's Gate was published in both hardcopy and PDF - I'd have to check on the Internet as to whether the PDF is still available for purchase.)

Chinatown!!! There was a Chinatown supplement? I need to get that one, I have the others...

If your interested I can email you the unstated sourcebooks; Arroyo Verde - High-Tech San Angelo.pdf , PART Sourcebook.pdf , and the San Angelo City of Heroes Map.pdf .


Cheers


QM

Me too me too me too especially the map.....


hmmmm......mapsssss......hmmmmmm.......

[TheQuestionMan]

For the San Angelo sourcebooks pdfs

Look here

QM

[clsage]

For the San Angelo sourcebooks pdfs
<snip>
QM

Someone please give the man some rep....must spread some around.....sigh.

Thanks QM !

-Carl-

[aylwin13]

Someone please give the man some rep....must spread some around.....sigh.

Thanks QM !

-Carl-

I got 'im for us.

[Lord Liaden]

For the San Angelo sourcebooks pdfs

Look here

QM

Were these PDF originally free giveaways from Gold Rush Games?

[TheQuestionMan]

Yep, back before they started having trouble with their website.

I loved San Angelo and through it found Astro City.

QM

[Pariah]

Thanks for making the San Angelo stuff available, QM. Repped.

I'm about to wrap up a closed-ended campaign, and while I'm not planning on GMing again anytime soon (gotta love grad school!), San Angelo would be a great setting.