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About a year and a half ago, I published two role-playing PDFs, an adventure (War in the Deep) and a sandbox setting (The City of Talon). I’ve posted my earnings-to-date one year ago and six months ago. Here’s what I’ve earned since then: Sales For The Past Six Months (December 2009-May 2010)
Product Number of Sales Gross Net War in the Deep 2 $10.00 $6.50 The City of Talon 2 $10.00 $6.50 TOTAL 4 $20.00 $13.00Sales For The Past Year (May 2009-May 2010)
Product Number of Sales Gross Net War in the Deep 7 $35.00 $22.75 The City of Talon 7 $35.00 $22.75 TOTAL 14 $70 $45.50I won’t bother charting the month-to-month sales, as they’ve obviously tailed off even more dramatically than six months ago.
Web Traffic
Total hits for War in the Deep on DriveThruRPG: 8,549
Unique pageviews for War in the Deep on the Musaeum in past six months: 6
Total hits for The City of Talon on DriveThruRPG: 5,389
Unique pageviews for The City of Talon on the Musaeum in past six months: 34
Source Pageviews bluedwarf.co.uk 18 Direct 10 ENWorld.org 9 roleplayingtips.com 2 Yahoo 2 Bing 1 TOTAL 34The keywords used to find Talon: “rpg medieval city maps” (2) and “talon city fantasy” (1)
bluedwarf.co.uk appears to be a text adventure inspired by Red Dwarf. No idea how that links back to Talon; maybe somebody linked to it on their forum?
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I described each project here on my blog in a couple of different blog posts. I’m a member of the RPG Bloggers Network, so those posts showed up there.
Analysis
RPG adventures and settings see big initial sales, then rapidly dwindling sales over time.
Plans
I still want to publish more supplements.  I’ve been horrifically slow at publishing them, though.  I now have another setting and another adventure each at the 80% mark.
So. Need to finish those and get them published. Â I’ve added them both to my list of active projects. But a plan without a date is just a dream, so:
- By June 5 — Finish drafts of The Goblins of Winterkeep and The Pyrrean Depths and send out for review.
- By end of June — Receive feedback on Winterkeep and Depths, and start first draft of second adventure.
- By end of July — Incorporate feedback on Winterkeep and Depths, finish polishing them, and publish them. Â Finish second draft of second adventure and send out for review.
- By end of August — Receive feedback on second adventure, and start first draft of third adventure.
And so on. Â With this schedule, I should be able to publish three supplements a year.