Tower_of_London

Eden Studios products are top notch, when they finally see print. George and Alex, yep Eden Studios is two whole people (with day jobs other than making games) and a handful of freelancers, are great guys who try to do their best. But it seems they've taken a couple of hard financial kicks to the head when they were already in the position of needing to wait on the revenue from one product to have the funds to produce the next.

On the .pdf issue, George has stated that he's leary of the medium and was made more so by learning that their Army of Darkness book was found to have been put on a pirate site where over ten times the copies thay had sold were distributed illegaly. He saw that as a massive loss of sales for his already struggling company.

Of course, the merits and flaws of .pdf can be debated ad nauseum. IMO, if done properly (see Pinnacle Entertainment Group) .pdfs combined with print can can make a company solid and viable.

As someone who's just a fan of their products and a regular reader of their forums, Eden seems to be in the unenviable position of not being able to put out product without cash flow but unable to get sufficient cash flow without putting out product. Chaosium, the makers of Call of Cthulhu, were in a similar position a few years ago, including being unable to pay their freelancers. They held on, kept fighting and have finally been getting new product flow and sales and have been slowly catching up on paying their freelancers and such. Maybe Eden can pull of the same thing, maybe not.

I'm just an outside observer putting together what I've heard. Only the insiders really know the facts. Ultimately, if you're a fan of Eden's (or any other company's) products and/or are wanting CoH tabletop or any other proposed product to come out you can support the company buy purchasing their products and trying to get others interested. If you don't then don't be surprised if the company dies or that waited for product doesn't appear. Of course, sometimes even if you do everything you can, the company still dies.

Eden ran into some financial problems that put a roadblock on all their products. They've just cleared up the worst of these according to a recent post on their forum by Doc Vahz himself, so things are finally moving forward again.

Note that Eden Studios is two guys, with day jobs outside Eden, and that the entire table-top rpg industry has taken some heavy financial hits over the past two years, most notably the collapse of multiple distributors that went under without paying what was owed to various game companies nor returning product. For a small company like Eden, that's a financial kick in head. More than one company didn't get up from similar hits.

Official word from Eden is that it's still coming but no official ETA. Check out Edens forums, "Community" on the sidebar at the link Malohin provides, for the most up-to-date info.

Also note that I'm in no way affiliated with Eden Studios in any official capacity. I'm just a fan and any errors in this post are my mistakes due to human error. Just to be clear. :-)

My wife and I also play CoH/V together and we have characters specifically designed to team with. e.g. Tower of London and Picadilly Girl, Mechanarchist and Catastrophy, Caestus Pax and Lady Flashfire are all on Freedom. Not only that but we're both avid table-top role-players as well.

All this and she hadn't even seen all the Star Wars movies when we first met. Of course, she's now been turned to the Darkside.

Many good ones so far. Don't forget the Superman 2 "KNEEL before Zod!" imperious point to the ground, especially if it could be combined with the appropriate phrase.

There are some of us on Freedom more than willing to roleplay. Keep an eye out for members of Shadow Vengence, The Knights of Albion, The Girls of Tokyo High and Utopia International. If approached in-character, most of us will respond in same. Especially look for Life Void, Mr. Twist, Night-Hunter, Fyrecracker, Illyriia, Ishtyriia, Atomic Roach, Caestus Pax, Emerald-Knight, Britannia, Fae Queen Mab, Armaria, Tower of London, Shoko, Hiko-chan, Mina-ko, Shiuko and Matoshi.