Just had a look at the financials of Stygian Fox.
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@Printdevil @Taskerland Their main bod has major CFS and, I suspect, the sort of depression that combines with that to produce "I just can't today" for months at a time. I sympathise, I sometimes get a bit that way myself, but I'm not trying to run a business or promising product any day now. When Kickstarter briefly had a rule that you can't run project N+1 until you've delivered project N, I was one of the people who reported them.
It's a shame, they had good authors, but I think they should admit their bankruptcy. We all know it's coming, and endless petty fundraisers and empty promises don't make them look any better (or do anything for their stress).@RogerBW I think there was someone else involved before and she crashed the entire thing into the side of a mountain. They evidently set up the company to manage the debt and protect themselves from the bankrupcy. They had an author who was also a company director and evidently still capable of producing stuff and he left last year, taking notes of existing projects with him. @Printdevil
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@RogerBW @Printdevil @Taskerland I am endlessly grateful they didn't get follow up on the offer to publish Perishing and I ended up doing it myself.
@shimminbeg Dodged a bullet. @RogerBW @Printdevil
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@RogerBW I think there was someone else involved before and she crashed the entire thing into the side of a mountain. They evidently set up the company to manage the debt and protect themselves from the bankrupcy. They had an author who was also a company director and evidently still capable of producing stuff and he left last year, taking notes of existing projects with him. @Printdevil
@Taskerland @Printdevil as I understand it that original person is still involved, just not formally; the new people are her friends. Every so often one of them burns out and is accused of all sorts of unprofessional behaviour, and someone new comes in.
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@Taskerland @Printdevil as I understand it that original person is still involved, just not formally; the new people are her friends. Every so often one of them burns out and is accused of all sorts of unprofessional behaviour, and someone new comes in.
@RogerBW Yikes. @Printdevil
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@RogerBW Yikes. @Printdevil
"how not to enjoy your hobby"
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"how not to enjoy your hobby"
@Printdevil @Taskerland "turn it into a business when you do not love running a business", I know.
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@Printdevil @Taskerland "turn it into a business when you do not love running a business", I know.
As Vazh is feeling burnt out it's probably time to suggest he monetizes his hobby.
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Just had a look at the financials of Stygian Fox. They have a Patreon that nets them £500 a month for which they have produced 3 NPCs and a short adventure in the last 9 months.
Meanwhile, between 2024 and 2025 they went even further into debt (now nearing £30k) despite liquidating assets.
All going well then.
@Taskerland it’s a shame as their early works were great.
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@Taskerland it’s a shame as their early works were great.
@Tim_Eagon Yeah... their first collection was really good but most of the stuff that followed has been poor, even by the standards of third party Call of Cthulhu.
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As Vazh is feeling burnt out it's probably time to suggest he monetizes his hobby.
@Printdevil Raft of high-risk crowd-funding initiatives ahoy Cap'n! Yarrr. @RogerBW
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@Taskerland it’s a shame as their early works were great.
@Tim_Eagon @Taskerland Yeah, went into this thread with "what's up with them" because I picked up Things We Left Behind a couple months ago because it specifically hit the exact type of modern age call of Cthulhu I know one of my players wants.
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@Tim_Eagon @Taskerland Yeah, went into this thread with "what's up with them" because I picked up Things We Left Behind a couple months ago because it specifically hit the exact type of modern age call of Cthulhu I know one of my players wants.
@squishymage42 @Tim_Eagon That is their famous one. I came across a lot of their other words before getting to that one as I wasn't running contemporary Cthulhu at the time. Now that I have the full picture I realise that they started really strongly and then went down-hill.
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Just had a look at the financials of Stygian Fox. They have a Patreon that nets them £500 a month for which they have produced 3 NPCs and a short adventure in the last 9 months.
Meanwhile, between 2024 and 2025 they went even further into debt (now nearing £30k) despite liquidating assets.
All going well then.
@Taskerland how did you inspect their financials? Are the publicly available in the UK somewhere?
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@Taskerland how did you inspect their financials? Are the publicly available in the UK somewhere?
@AndreasDavour Yeah... if you google them, they come up. Companies here have to make their financials public.
