ALTVOGGE

[Jürgen Hubert]

And what did you do to get the word out into the wider RPG community?

Aside from having a link on the Altvogge website to my lulu storefront, and mentioning it here and on the Discworld MUD, absolutely nothing.

Well, I'm fairly active on a number of RPG-related forums - most notably on RPGNet and ENWorld, and apart from having a link to it in my signature, I also plug it in appropriate threads (usually in threads like "tell me about your homebrew", "I am looking for a setting with these features..." and so on) - and I've started a thread or two on my own on a specific aspect of the setting if I think it's nifty enough and the whole thing won't be considered spam. I've also added links to Urbis in every online dictionary for campaign worlds I could find. I've even created a mailing list, though it doesn't exactly generate much traffic...

As a result, Urbis has developed a small fan following even well before it has been published - and the two incomplete playtest drafts have been downloaded about 700 times, as far as I can tell.

This makes me rather hopeful for eventual publication that I will find enough ready buyers for the setting - and it also reaffirms the old adage that if you want to succeed, you need to tell the world about your product. After all, the online RPG community functions by word-of-mouth for the most part, and it is the publisher whose mouth needs to open up the most.

So maybe you should consider spreading the word a bit, too. It can't hurt your sales numbers, after all...   ;)