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Post by calithena on Jul 22, 2024 12:43:30 GMT -6
In the old days message boards were king. rpg.net, enworld, acaeum, OD&D, dragonsfoot, knights & knaves, therpgsite, story games, some other places I put up ads and it used to work OK.
Blog posts were big after that and a lot of you graciously mentioned the 'zine on your blog. Hopefully there will be similarly kind supporters and reviewers today.
Now Discord seems like it's the big thing, but I'm only on a couple of servers and posts disappear up the chain pretty fast, so I'm not sure how good Discord is for this kind of small time ad.
I'll see if Ig can still log into his old FB account and try there.
Where else? Any suggestions?
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Post by Attronarch on Jul 22, 2024 14:02:22 GMT -6
The only thing to add would be Reddit (r/osr, r/odnd, r/adnd). I plan on promoting new issue on my blog, newsletter, reddit, and few discords.
Discord servers that I think would be good place to talk about FO, sorted by member count: Necrotic Gnome Fan Community (6507), Frog God Games (3234), OSR Pick-Up Games (1259), Mythmere Games (495), Classic Adventure Gaming Podcast (259).
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Post by calithena on Jul 22, 2024 14:14:39 GMT -6
I need invites to those servers lol!
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Post by Attronarch on Jul 22, 2024 14:18:53 GMT -6
I'll message them to you.
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Post by calithena on Jul 22, 2024 15:14:28 GMT -6
Thank you sir!
I have negative real world Reddit karma because I'm an obnoxious troll, but I'll check with Ignatius and see what he's got going.
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Post by Megatapirus on Jul 22, 2024 15:58:43 GMT -6
I'd be happy to let Reddit know all about it. The only question is if it's best to do it now or wait until there's an order link to direct folks to.
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Post by calithena on Jul 22, 2024 16:05:28 GMT -6
No, definitely wait until the proof copy is tested and I have a proper description and product up on lulu. Which won't be long now!
But also, THANK YOU, that's awesome!!!!
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Post by Megatapirus on Jul 22, 2024 16:06:52 GMT -6
No, definitely wait until the proof copy is tested and I have a proper description and product up on lulu. Which won't be long now! Makes sense. Of course, I'll be talking about it on my FB and relevant FB groups as well (S&W, OD&D, etc.) |
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Post by chicagowiz on Jul 23, 2024 6:23:40 GMT -6
Podcasts/YouTube/TikTok - perhaps. I'm not up on the latest/greatest, but I'm sure other folks here would know.
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Post by rredmond on Jul 23, 2024 15:23:08 GMT -6
Definitely get blog, vlog and forum reviewers!! I need invites to those servers lol! Or friends that can promote for you!  |
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Post by Megatapirus on Jul 24, 2024 15:43:58 GMT -6
Is the ToC available? Definitely would be an asset promotion-wise.
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Post by calithena on Jul 24, 2024 19:08:55 GMT -6
Table of Contents
Ten Ways to Holmsify your Game (Zach Howard) 3
Special Ability Charts (Attronarch) 4
The Orthogonal Dwarf (Olle Skogren) 11
Gremlins! (Calithena) 14
Maze Master’s Miscellany (Alex Schroeder & Cal) 15
The Catacombs under Old Samora (Philipp H.) 17
Knights & Knaves: Holmes Town Heroes (Tony Rowe) 28
Bringing It All Back Holmes (Clark/Grodog/Cal) 30
Maps from the Maze of Peril (J. Eric Holmes) 34
Distributary of Darkness (Alex Zisch) 36
The Silken See (Motley Dice) 37
Grognard’s Grimoire (Richard Rittenhouse) 41
The Wizard’s Satchel (J. Blasso-Gieseke) 43
Artifacts, Adjuncts, and Oddments (Rittenhouse) 44
Victory or Death! (Gabor Lux) 46
Megadungeon Workshop Extravaganza! (Kesher) 50
Calvero! (István Boldog-Bernád) 53
Creepies & Crawlies (James Maliszewski) 61
Tables for Fables (Al, Greco, Wetzel, and Rients) 63
The Darkness Beneath (Alex Schroder & Lior Wehrli) 68
Henchmen-Я-Us: Pole Arm Caddies! (Calithena) 91
Chainmail: Battle for Bronzolo (Settembrini) 92
Doxy, Urgent Care Cleric (Linneman & Green) 98
Education of a Magic User (Douglas Cox) 99
Wham! (Tom Gordon) 100
Front cover by Tom Gordon (facebook.com/tgordo). Back cover by Mitzi! Fight On! logo by Jeff Rients. J. Eric Holmes photo by Steve Pyryezstov. Images by Germille (2), Cameron Hawkey (cameronhawkey.com; 3, 25, 29, 33, 40, 92, 97), Allan T. Grohe Jr. (greyhawkonline.com/grodog; 6), Peter Mullen (instagram.com/pmullenillustrations; 10, 40), J. Blasso-Gieseke (charybdispress.com; 11, 64), Michael Russell (12, 94), Black Blade Publishing (facebook.com/blackbladepublishing; 14, 49), Patrick Farley (15, retro 16, 67), Philipp H. (18), Philipp Knopp (21, 22), Gabor Lux (beyondfomalhaut.blogspot.com; 27), Justin Russell (linktr.ee/epicwerkesstudio; 32), Jean-Francois Beaulieu (32), Chris Holmes (33), J. Eric Holmes (34, 35), Alex Zisch (36, 44), Motley Dice (motleydice.net; 37, 38, 39), Ed Heil (edheil@fastmail.fm; 38), John Tenniel (40), Mac Teg (macteg.com, 45, 63), Raymond Perry (46, 47), The Antique Alumni (47, 48), Pacesetter Games (pacesettergames.com; 49), The Dead Victorians (54, 55, 56, 58), István Boldog-Bernád (57, 59), Jason Sholtis (roll1d12@blogspot.com; 61, 62), Zhu Bajiee (realmofzhu@blogspot.com; 61. 62, 63), Robert S. Conley (68), Ndege Diamond (70,80), Alex Schroder (71, 79, 81), Kelvin Green (kelvingreen.blogspot.com; 82, 91, 98), Anthony Stiller (83), Niel-Jan Que (89), Settembrini (93) Knights & Knaves and Creepies & Crawlies logos by Lee Barber. Tables for Fables logo derived from one by by Age of Fable.
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Post by calithena on Jul 24, 2024 19:13:00 GMT -6
As soon as I've verified the proof copy free contributor PDFs will go out, and then we'll advertise the print issue and the PDF for sale, and then...on to #16!
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