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Re: 50% off Fantacy Hero Material I swear I posted about this. I must have had a glitch and missed it. Yes, Final Redoubt Press is having a 50% off sale on all products, including all our HERO products. It's a "Feed the TV Repairman" Sale, so I hope you can empathize. At any rate it should be going on about one more week. I still have plenty of physical HERO books in stock as well. Thanks, JmOz. Regards, Robert J Defendi

Re: Echoes Of Heaven + The Throne Of God

Re: Echoes Of Heaven + The Throne Of God Thank you. I'm pleased you liked it. I don't see spoiler tags here so I'll avoid one tiny correction, although I should note the adventure is longer than a full-sized 32 page adventure. I just don't want people to get the wrong idea about the size. I think the reason the adventure doesn't feel thrown in as, from a design perspective the ten-part series is why I started writing the entire product line. All the source books are to give you a world to tell the story in. Not that I intend to stop at the end of product ten, of course. Anyway, thanks again.

Re: What Book Should I Buy Next? GM's day sale going on on RPGNow right now. All Final Redoubt products half off.

Re: What Book Should I Buy Next? We've come out with The Echoes of Heaven Bestiary/The Tainted Tears. We also have more than just one free Adventure Seed products, not just The Burning Tree, however they aren't specifically HERO. http://www.finalredoubt.com

Re: The Echoes of Heaven Preorders have shipped. Thanks. I have another I need to publish as soon as I can squeeze it in.

Re: The Echoes of Heaven Preorders have shipped. I'm glad it arrived and looks good. Have a good read.

I’ve now shipped all preorders for Echoes of Heaven. Now, officially, no orders are “pre” any longer. They should all just ship the next business day. It might take a day or two before I update the store, but if you do a preorder in the meantime, it’s not a preorder, its a real order. There's one order paid with an e-check that hasn't actually come in yet, but other than that, everything's fulfilled.

Re: The Echoes of Heaven Preorders now Online I was thinking about refusing to tell anyone unless they bought, but it boils down to this. One of the Ennie Judges had a blog, and in that blog he said that if I had submitted my product line the way Battletech Classic had, or if they had submitted their line the way I had, I would have gotten an nomination (or more) for the Ennies (presumably beating out Battlech Classic, though that was never actually said). However, they never announced their decision to allow certain publishers to submit this fashion. Well, some people decided that this was an unfair advantage, and that we weren't given the opportunity to submit on equal ground (I wasn't one of those people, I was too busy stripping the blog entry for marketing quotes). The person starting the argument got into this big dust up with one of the judges (not the blogger) over whether or not the ennies were fair or if they were too subjective, giving some people preferential treatment. In the end, they were both banned. I found out about it hours after it all finished that the thread was locked.

The critics have raved. The fans have flocked. It earned us promotion from the RPGNow Edge site to the main site in one week. It’s the product that got an Ennie judge temporarily banned from the ENWorld forums. And now it’s coming in print. Am I overselling? You’ve made Final Redoubt Press a runaway success as an e-publisher. Now it’s time to help make us a success as a print publisher. The Echoes of Heaven Campaign Setting, including The Throne of God, is now available for preorder from Final Redoubt Press, all four version, in either hardbound or paperback. Come one come all. Buy now and get it in time for Christmas. Simply go to FinalRedoubt.com/store and click on Print PREORDERS. Then order away. All charges are run immediately. Enjoy. Santa’s Elves are hooked into their wireless, hopped up on cappuccino, and waiting to process your orders.

Re: The Echoes of Heaven Developer's Journal Lol

Re: The Echoes of Heaven Developer's Journal Oh, thanks. If you get in a print order before Dec 12th or so, I should be able to get it to you bey christmas (my drop dead mailing date is the 13th.) If you're taking PDFs, since only the first book is available for preorder, that's great too.

Re: The Echoes of Heaven Developer's Journal I'm REALLY hesitant to draw attention to this one, because if feels like doom and gloom, but I promised I'd share the lows as well as the highs. I tried to lighten the mood with blatant pandering, though. That's usually entertaining. For those of you who've been following these since the begining, I've been showing you all the highs and lows and work and pain of being a new publisher. This feels like my gloomiest post, so I'm not copying it here. If you want to read about the things that keep publishers up in the night, go to finalredoubt.com/wordpress.

They said it couldn’t be done. In the middle, we thought we wondered ourselves. Still, seven months later, and the product is a reality. One monster book with versions for four different games. We must have been crazy. The Echoes of Heaven Bestiary has now released. Included within is the adventure The Tainted Tears, episode 4 in The Moving Shadow campaign. For more information, see www.finalredoubt.com/store or go to http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?cPath=1762. Thanks again for making Final Redoubt Press such a successful company. --------- Robert J Defendi Check out The Echoes of Heaven sourcebooks and adventures and our Campaign Cartographer symbols. www.finalredoubt.com

It’s been a busy month or two. Let me try to get it all down, so you can catch up a bit. My last job was becoming a nightmare, and it had destroyed my ability to work. The hours a day I was able to put toward writing had plummeted. It was a good job in the early days, and I took it despite the poor pay because I was often able to do four hours of work on the company in a single shift. However scheduling issues and, more importantly, a rise in business made things more and more busy. I couldn’t begrudge them any of this, and I’d never shirk my duties on shift for other work, but things were getting difficult. I still love everyone there and value the time I spent there. I gladly go in to help them fix little problems and will continue to do so until they’re up to speed. Recently a new job opportunity came up at Verio Web Hosting. The job was only two days (though I sleep a third just to recover). In that I work 22 hours and earn more money than I did at my old job. This leaves me 5 days off in a row (four with the day lost to sleep) to work on writing and publishing projects. So once that started moving forward, my path was set. That left some new time issues. I had to teach my old boss how to do my job. Then I had to do full time training for my new job. Things have finally settled and this week I’m getting quite a bit done. I’ll brief you on the final state of things at the end. Since I’ve last posted, Wizards announced 4th edition Dungeons and Dragons, I’m sure you all know. At first, I was a little worried. I’ve spoken to people at wizards since and while licensing stuff is still up in the air, I’ve become relatively certain that the new system will work with The Echoes of Heaven (the bit about martial adepts had me a touch worried at first, but it seems I can make it work). If I can get a timely look at the SRD, this could even make the company. Being able to release early enough might even launch the company like the early adopters of 3.0. It’s too early to tell if that’s likely, or even possible, but I’m working on it. Here’s the status of everything else. I finished the master pagemake of product 4 today. If all goes well that puts us within two weeks of release. I have one proofread still outstanding but that should be done before I pagemake that version. I had proofed, edited, and pagemade the first product for print release. I made the HARP version first this time and ordered soft and hardcover versions. The softcover looks wonderful. The hardcover has slightly poorer quality on the interior grayscales, but the hardbounds physically look to be great. I intend to contact Lulu about the grayscales when I have a new version ready for upload, so that minor changes will be reflected in a new copy. This morning I finished re-proofing the softbound from cover to cover. I’ve input those edits as well. Tomorrow (I work an hour a day on the print versions), I hope to have first runs on the new interiors ready. I go over them several times before I declare them done, usually spotting new pagemaking flaws each time, so that will probably be up next week. After that, I’m guessing, we’re within a month of me ordering a complete set of proofs of all four versions in preparation of going live. So, that puts Bestiary (The Hell project) out around the end of the month or beginning of next and the print versions for product one for sale sometime around Halloween, barring major disaster. Tomorrow I should finish pagemaking the RM version out of the master. I hope to have the HARP version pagemade as well before I launch into the weekend, but half-done is probably more likely. Well. That’s it for now. I’ll be able to update more often now. Here’s the countdown of stuff to do before product 4 release: Get d20 doc back from proofer. Pagemake RM Version Pagemake HARP Version Pagemake HERO Version Pagemake d20 Version Pagemake CC Readme Get CC Readme proofed Get all the maps ready for packaging (some them out, hide one of the grids, etc.) Build the Zip Files Upload the Zip Files Build the Product Pages Get Product Pages Activated. Announce release