I just sent the following email to LPJ.
[To LPJ] I am sending you this to let you know at this time: [June 30th] 10:47pm CDT, I have removed all NeoExodus products from RPGNow. They still show on their search engine, but they are no longer available and should be cleared out on their next refresh in the next hour or so - which is out of my control. I believe I have removed all the links and reference from FOE's website. Well I'm off! Good luck. JP |
It was a rather emotional message for me to send as it marks the end of a long and quite prosperous relation. It tried to keep it short. It was the setting that I really helped grow into a coherent whole and a lot of myself is it.
I wish my friend the best and know we'll get around a White Russian again at a con in the future. Though emotional for the time invested, I see the future as bright and open for FOE. The partnership and experience gained with LPJ is invaluable to me and something I will cherish.
But like leaving high school, I will now fly under my own wings. The Tyrants of Saggakar line is really exploding (eclipsing all my other products in both numbers of sales and dollars). So I know there is a market for it I just have to keep pushing myself to make better and better products every day.
So it is an emotional day, but one I know will lead to bigger and better things for all involved.
Sad? Yes. Happy? Yes.
See you at the gaming table my friend, let's give our players so many options they wonder what to buy next!
JP







Nestled high in the Grit Mountains the village of Oldenhaffen is famed for the quality of its wool. Passing through, the town elder runs to you imploring your assistance. Ever since a local shepherd brought back a silvered Cavian skull, things have gone... Insane. Anyone who touched the skull is now frozen in place, unmoving. A psionic-based NeoExodus adventure for 3rd-level characters.

I mean, guys I admired like James Desborough who wrote the original product. Owen Stephens who is a giant in the industry and someone whom I got the honor of updating to Pathfinder some of his work on NeoExodus (the Sanguine Covenant and the Order of Kaga). And Richard Pett who wrote many of my favorite Pathfinder adventures.








Some of you may have already seen (through Twitter or Facebook or G+), but Louis Porter and I have been toying with the idea. No. That's not right. We've decided we wanted to put in a NeoExodus adventure as part of 2012's Free RPG Day. Now I've been participating in that since... what is it, 2009? Well I love the idea as it promotes table-top gaming across the world (at least in my area).


Another book I did for LPJ Design has been released! It includes a full write up of the history of the Kaga's "religion", two new prestige classes, new archetypes, new spells, new feats, new magic items, new magic tomes, a new monster, adventure seeds, in short this one has a little of everything!
It is with great pride and joy that I can report that LPJ Design has published my first book for their NeoExodus line,
What has been consuming most of my free time lately - other than my "MAIN" job has been a number of projects with LPJ Design. I am currently working at overhauling the Base Book for the setting. I am very proud with the results. It has more than the original, including archetypes (4 right now), prestige classes (more than 5), new feats (over 70 as I write this) and the history of the world and gazetteer with a number of surprises added.
For the past weeks, I have been working on re-vamping LPJ Design's Sanguine Covenant book for NeoExodus. It was a good book with an interesting take on monotheism in a fantasy setting. Trying to include a world view that encompasses and explains the polytheism in the world. Unlike our world where the mysteries of God are not readily available to all.
Finally, I have this major pet peeve with these source books. I want adventure ideas. Not full-fleshed out adventures, but ideas, something I can just glance over and gain some inspiration. Like those old GURPS supplements I keep looking at, just for their "adventure seeds". So I added those in.