Neuer Vampire: The Requiem Developer

Rich's Ramblings #4

Hi Everybody!

Sorry this took a week to get out to you. Last week I really thought I'd be able to announce what I wanted to on Friday...then Monday...then Tuesday...it just kept slipping away like sands through my outstretched fingers. But now, today, I can do it:

It is with incredible pleasure that I can announce that Joe Carriker, long time writer and developer for White Wolf (and a few other less important companies like WOTC) joins WWPublishing in Atlanta as Vampire the Requiem Developer. Joe brings his honed writing abilities and a sure hand and a taste for the weird and macabre to the developer's role and his first major projects are the Clan Books.

But that's not all! Fresh from his debut developmental effort undertaking the gargantuan adaption of Mage the Awakening to the Mind's Eye Theatre format (available now in both PDF and PoD form from One Book Shelf! Buy one for a friend!) comes Eddy Webb to take on the responsibilities of developing our Alternative Publishing area- which not coincidentally includes PDF and PoD products.

And finally, the guy with the single biggest job of all- he has to fill an entire universe: Russell Bailey comes onboard as the EVE Rpg Developer. Russell has the energy of twelve ordinary men and a prodigious writing talent, as anyone who has seen his work in Damnation City, the upcoming Requiem for Rome and Fall of the Camarilla, and the very upcoming Daeva Clan Book can tell you.

It's an exciting time to be at WW- I can't remember a time when we were able to bring in three such talented creators all at once. So if you hear anyone talking about how White Wolf is leaving the RPG business, you tell them that we love RPGs and we're not going anywhere but up.

Which brings me to some questions asked in other places across the internet, one of which was someone wanting to know how many Changelings we printed if we then sold out and are reprinting. Ethan has already rightly pointed out that we don't traditionally share print numbers- they're as telling to our wily competitors as a copy of next, next year's schedule- but I do have the latitude to say that we printed conservatively and the first run was between ten and twenty thousand copies. For all of you who have already bought and read Changeling the Lost: thanks so much for making it the runaway smash of the year for us. And the rest of you...come on and find out what all the fuss is about!

<Allright, I promise to stop shilling...for today at least>

Another question was whether we under-printed Changeling because Promethean sold so poorly. No, that wasn't the case at all. First of all, Promethean sold almost exactly as expected, which was hardly disappointing at the time. We printed as conservatively with Promethean as we did with Changeling, it's just that Changeling really took off. Subject matter, Dreaming nostalgia, an uptick in the market? Even we're not sure yet, but we're certainly looking into it.

I was going to address this next issue today as well, but it's a biggee and deserving of it's own post, so I'll leave you with this: next post I talk about Editing, Errata and Indexes. Oh my!

Thanks-

--richt

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