Thinking of it that way, I’d say the question is less a matter of, “is the profit worth the hassle?” and more a matter of, “how much more mindshare does that slimmed margin buy me, and what is that worth?”

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/diaspora-softcover/8350081

Also, I just bought, downloaded, and read the first half of Deluge, and it’s even more awesome than I expected. I’d thought, going in, “How can he say more? I mean, the two or three posts on the setting seems about all that’s needed.” but no. Not even close. And as I just started an Apocalypse World (Vincent Baker’s (Dogs in the Vineyard) new — currently-unpublished — post-apocalypse game (lumpley.com/apocalypse)), I now totally wanna run it in a Deluge setting. All sorts of ideas. AW has this phenom that’s specifically not detailed called the Psychic Maelstrom, that the characters can “open their brains” to to get all sorts of information — good or bad — and I can’t help myself but think that the arrival of the angels spawned such a phenomenon.

I’m thinking I might shift the game from a pre-rain post-apoc to a post-rain, where 15 or 20 years after the “cataclysm”, it starts raining and never stops right around the ears of the player characters. Maybe after this storyline/set of characters, we’d jump 20 years into the future and play new characters in the same area, but this time, everything is covered in water, with islands instead of peaks.

Either way: My brain is mush from the rush.

Noah

p.s. I’m gonna toss this idea onto my blog, now that I think about it. It needs some work, but soooooooooooooon.

Noah