THE OLLAMH LOREKEEPER: Rite Publishing: State of the Company 2009

2009 was Rite Publishing’s most successful year ever.

That says it all.

Here are some of my favorite highlights:

We launched Jonathan Roberts’ Fantastic Maps as our first imprint.

We started selling our products at the Paizo store,

Jason Rainville and Hugo Solis joined us as primary artists.

Initial Sketch by Hugo Solis

We launched the Litorians patronage project which hopefully will continue as a series of Arcana Evolved racial supplements (Monte willing).

Illustration by Jason Raiville

We launched our first Pathfinder Rpg patronage project with Coliseum Morpheuon, which brought Clinton J. Boomer into the fold.

Illustration by Wayne Anthony Reynolds

We released the Heroes of the Jade Oath BETA proofing copy to the patrons on time.

Illustration by Tyler Bartley

We launched our first foray into the virtual table top gaming marketplace with the Breaking of Fostor Nagar Patronage Project. (Special Thanks to Paizo for letting us do this).

We released our best selling product to date: Feats 101, reaching #8 on the Rpg Countdown.

Illustration by Hugo Solis

I also launched the new Questhaven series as a default setting for our Pathfinder Rpg projects.

And with patron input we are looking closely at launching our next patronage project in January as an M&M Superlink project.

We had some minor disappointments in 2009:

Delays in the releases of the Intimate Shape Festhall (it will be released January 5^th)

The failure of the Monsters of Taboo line for 3.5 OGL

The Reverse Design complimentary patronage project has only seen one on time release, forcing me to stop soliciting for the project until all the current outstanding assignments are turned in.

On to 2010

Questhaven will continue to see product created for it, with the Evocative City Sites being folded in and expanded upon with Pathfinder Rpg rules added in.

The Rituals of Choice adventure path will also continue along with our AE racial supplements (Monte willing).

Heroes of the Jade Oath will see the release of the Errata version of the BETA, a development of its patron exclusive adventure and public release of the BETA for retail PDF and Print sales.

We of course will see the release of Coliseum Morpheuon in 2010 with Boomer gearing up once the holidays are past along with Breaking of Fostor Nagar.

You can also expect new patronage projects for the Pathfinder Rpg, right now I hope that a certain “Jackanapes” project will gain solid footing once a few other projects are completed, and we will be soliciting for ideas in February.

We also hope to expand into other gaming systems in a manner similar to what we are planning with M&M Superlink,