Fight On! Magazine
tankschmidt
Explorer
Ho. Lee. Cow.
(mad dash to grab credit card...)
EDIT: Purchased. To be honest, all you had to do was put the words "four FULL adventures" and "Gabor Lux" in the same sentence.
Is this the actual table of contents? If so, this is incredibly sweet.
(mad dash to grab credit card...)
EDIT: Purchased. To be honest, all you had to do was put the words "four FULL adventures" and "Gabor Lux" in the same sentence.
OD&D Boards said:
Is this the actual table of contents? If so, this is incredibly sweet.
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Philotomy Jurament
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I'm a big fan of his adventures, too.tankschmidt said:
Yeah, that looks right. There's a preview on Lulu that includes the actual ToC, and it matches that.
Flynn
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trollwad said:
If you're getting hard copy through Lulu.com, then that price can make sense. The base cost for printing a 40 page book or magazine is about $5.33 or so, and then the guy needs to add a little on top of that just to make a little money himself. He's probably bringing home about 80 cents a copy that sells, after Lulu gets there 20%, all told.
Ultimately, there's little he can do to bring the cost much lower than that. You could see if he'll post it in PDF/soft copy, too. That would make it cheaper to pick up.
With Regards,
Flynn
Tewligan
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Do you seriously expect a small, VERY niche-market, print on demand magazine that just started up to be able to compare price- and content-wise to a corporate house magazine that was relatively widely distributed over 30 years with advertising? That's not a very reasonable expectation, I think...trollwad said:
Ummm, yes actually. In the business world, they would call Dungeon, Paizo's pathfinder or Kobold Quarterly (<$10 for four sixty-eighty page pdfs), a competitive reference point. I love old school, I wish the new publication well, I just don't understand why its a decent value. Why wouldnt they sell old school modules as pdfs to cut the cost? Once they built a 1000 subscribers or so, then they could add a print product. I think this is the route wolfgang took with KQ.
Philotomy Jurament
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FWIW, this is a brand-new thing, and it's a fanzine of gamer/hobbyist love (eeewww...), not really a business-oriented effort. You can check out the origins of the project, here. As far as value for the money, I think it's reasonable for a POD product serving a niche. The value, for me, comes from Fight On! delivering something that I can't get, elsewhere (i.e. the magazine's particular niche focus and feel).
I believe there are moves being made to distribute in other formats. For now, there's a blurb in the preview that mentions anyone not wanting to order through Lulu can email the publisher to make other arrangements, such as purchasing a PDF .
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