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Sales Lessons

There is another way that Numenera has been a test case as well. A lot of people assumed that with a Kickstarter as successful as Numenera’s was last year, that there would be no interest in it after the Kickstarter campaign was finished. In other words, there would be few retail sales because everyone who was going to buy it had already backed the Kickstarter. We have found in the last month or so that is decidedly untrue. Numenera has had one of the biggest, if not the biggest, rpg launches in 2013. We may have seriously underestimated the game’s appeal.

That’s why we’re excited that we have Bruce Cordell on board to help support the game. He’s working with me on the Bestiary right now, and he’ll be helping out on Sir Arthour’s Compendium and the Ninth World Guidebook as well.

And with all the excitement, we have decided just this last week how we are going to expand the Numenera line beyond the products launched in the Kickstarter. You’ll be seeing announcements about these new products in the future.

Numenera, of course, is just the first of many large, successful Kickstarter campaigns to fund the creation of new rpgs. We are currently in the process of reaching out to others who will have similar issues in the future so that they can avoid some of the pitfalls that we ran into. I strongly suspect that Kickstarter and rpgs will enjoy wedded bliss for a long time to come. I’m happy to be a part of some of the initial forays into this new frontier. It’s a very exciting time for roleplaying games.