Comments on: The Egg Goes Dark

By: Louis Garcia

Louis Garcia — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:10:48 +0000

Sorry to hear you guys aren’t doing any more D&D 4th ed products. I’ve recently discovered your product line and I recently purchased the Witch Docter book and it’s great. I’m beginning a new campaign soon and I’m looking forward showing off the witch docter. I think I’m going to get the poison books too.

By: pworthen

pworthen — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:25:02 +0000

Damn, it’s too bad to see you guys shutting down. I’m a big fan of your products and wish you the best in your future endeavors.

By: hollywood

hollywood — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:07:08 +0000

Well when you put all your eggs into one basket… I mean come on, there are other RPGs besides 4e (which is rapidly going back to the closed system of pre-3e). Pathfinder, True20, etc. Its not like gaming just all of the sudden started with 4e. 4e’s GSL does make producing same product for different lines very difficult even if the product is not pure crunch. But really branching out and supporting different, but similiar games, does allow for more potential sales.

“Michael, honestly, Pathfinder doesn’t excite us at all, and 4e does. We follow our passion. So there’s no plan and really no chance of Pathfinder support from us, though we do wish Paizo all the best.”

As for the folks whose groups can not seem to be able to create characters without the subpar DDI, then good thing they didn’t play 15 years ago…. heavens forbid when a pen-and-paper RPG game can’t be played without a computer!

By: justin

justin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:17:04 +0000

@Robert Ha! I played a gnome witch doctor for a few session. It was a blast.

By: Robert Stehwien

Robert Stehwien — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:29:03 +0000

This is too bad as you guys make for some great stuff. But I totally understand, the DDI Character Builder dominates our game and isn’t extendable enough. We really loved the Bad Egg Shaman (I so wanted to see a gnome in a tribal mask) but not being able to make the character with the tool added a hurdle.

Well I’m still eagerly awaiting other stuff from Evil Hat so there is still some money to bend on your great works.

By: Josh Raynack

Josh Raynack — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:42:53 +0000

I know how you all feel – I am pretty much a one man show these days and it does consume a lot of time, especially without a huge start-up investment. Good luck to you all. Please let me know if there is anything I can do.

By: justin

justin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:19:54 +0000

@Max – Well, Rob has already / is doing that. You’ll see his name pop up on a few items over at WotC proper. Viz., note the Additional Design credits in the DMG2.

By: Max

Max — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:02:10 +0000

I’m another who’s sad to see you guys come to the end of this experiment.

I’d still love to hear your thoughts on incorporating aspect rules into 4E and/or expanding the use of Action Points, which was hinted as something you guys had kicked around informally. Any chance? Maybe?

Good luck to all of you. Maybe you should be submitting your works to Wizards and get it published in Dragon/Dungeon and incorporated into the software!

By: Catastrophe

Catastrophe — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:41:41 +0000

Well, this is a pity, but I can understand your reasoning. Hopefully this will help create awareness of issues like the dominace of d&di, and I can certainly sympathise about designing for 4e being a hard slog!

By: fred

fred — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:12:15 +0000

Michael, honestly, Pathfinder doesn’t excite us at all, and 4e does. We follow our passion. So there’s no plan and really no chance of Pathfinder support from us, though we do wish Paizo all the best.

By: David

David — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:42:44 +0000

Thank you for publishing what you did, for as long as you did.

I’m disappointed that we won’t be getting the Shroud setting (as that seemed significantly more interesting that most of WotC’s PoLand material)…but the work you did publish is appreciated, original, and highly creative. I will always have a fondness for intelligent apes…I wish you all well in future endeavors.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:23:53 +0000

What about Pathfinder? Is 4e the only path worth taking? I don’t know as a first time publisher if there’s any wind in the Pathfinder sail, but I hope I don’t have to give up before I even get started. I really believe that 4e is setup in such a way that 3pp can not survive as a support system. Paizo does not do this – perhaps it a worthy direction to pursure.

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By: Mike S.

Mike S. — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:41:49 +0000

I’m sorry to see you go, but I totally understand your decision.

By: justin

justin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:58:03 +0000

Certainly, there’s a tinge of disappointment, but as I’ve said elsewhere, this experiment ends for me largely because WotC has done a good job of making material I would have wanted to design myself and packaging it in a slick DDI package that can’t be beat.

For my part, the best was working with Fred, Rob, and Chris, who are consummate professionals. I look forward to working on them with other projects in the future.

By: Sam Chupp

Sam Chupp — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:47:29 +0000

Here’s hoping “The Long Tail” is very, very good to you. You deserve it.

By: Mach1.9pants

Mach1.9pants — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:45:40 +0000

This is so sad. OBE are the best 3rd party producers of 4E stuff in the market, I have their entire catalogue just because I love to read them, even if I may only use half.

But I see where they come from, DDi is so awesome, none of my players would think of making a PC unless they could use the CharBuilder…. such a pity and (apart from adventures) I don’t think OBE will be the last

Thanks for some great stuff and good luck in the future.

By: wampuscat43

wampuscat43 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:16:00 +0000

I was just coming on to post how much we enjoyed using ‘Hard-Boiled Armies’ in our 4e game. It went remarkably well, and all my players are looking forward to using it again.

By: Kraken Eye

Kraken Eye — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:21:26 +0000

Will you be publishing the Player’s companion for the Codex Venenorum?

I’ve got a PDF up, and I’ve only sold 20 copies – barely broke even – but then, I publish as a hobby.

Sorry to see ya go.

By: Linnaeus

Linnaeus — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:24:46 +0000

While I could see the writing on the wall, this is a sad day. OBE was, to be honest, producing better, more interesting material than WotC, even if Wizards has been closing the gap in the last year.

One Bad Egg will be missed.