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No, I understand you just fine. You're describing a warehouse club, which I dismissed several posts ago. Warehouse clubs are a lovely idea when you're dealing with a high-volume business with a broad base of customers. But a Sam's Club grosses as much money in a day as a hobby game store does...

(I should note that I'm mostly talking about in-store play here. That's not to ignore other competitive advantages like product mix, customer guidance, and instant gratification. It's just that those benefits are spread pretty evenly between all customers and products, and don' t really warrant...

I've mulled this a fair bit, actually. There's some experiments I'd like to try, but I'd need a store layout that provides more separation of play space from merchandising. We may move next year; if so I'll be looking out for a location that can handle that plan. That said, I think you'd be...

To echo a couple of other store owners in the thread, our D&D sales help pay for a lot of the shelf space devoted to small press games and slower-selling products. That said, I'm taking an increasingly laissez-faire attitude about this kind of thread. It's up to the store to earn your business...

Cooooool. Any gamer would be proud to add that to his dice collection! cheers,

And now we know why the competition is stiff. cheers,

Ragnar the Viking sez, "GARGH! We care not for weak outlander games with no way to win! That's why we made that pathetic skraeling Chris Aylott put competitive play rules into his next D&D book! Now you can smash your fellow players' hopes for victory even as you smash your foes!!!!" what can...

I think bugbears are adorable. How could you not love these guys? <img src="http://www.reapermini.com/fantasy/albums/2400s/2469_G.jpg"> (One of Reaper's most popular minis around here, if the way they keep selling is any indication.) cheers,

{fist pump} WOO HOO! That's really good to know, and I'd actually love to hear more from you at some point about what they found most/least useful. Here's fine, or you can drop me an email. (Right now I'm well-nigh obsessed with learning more about how people actually use books like this.)...

I'm working up an order page for all the Ennie nominees -- at least the physical ones, and I'll probably put pointers to the electronic sales sites too -- but it's not done yet. (Very busy day today.) You can check out what I've got so far at: http://www.spacecrime.com/Ennie_Nominees.htm and...

I just wanted to say, "WOW WOW WOW WOW!" I had no idea that <i>Dynasties</i> was going to be nominated, and when I see all the great stuff that's also been nominated... WOW WOW WOW WOW! wow,

Uh oh, the cat's out of the bag! Well, as you can see from Dynasties, I'm absolutely shameless about taking stuff I like from other books. I may rewrite to fit my needs, but I don't like reinventing the wheel. So in general, yes -- I will be plugging in game rules that solve my design problems...

As far as conversion issues, "whut Will and John said." If you're curious about the process, I generally wrote a scene using either the Rune or D20 rules (it'll be interesting to tell if people can tell which one I used first), then figured out how to bring the same "mood" off in the other...

Are retailers slowing orders of print material in anticipation of this? Not per se, no. I am trimming inventory and am -- as John has observed of other retailers -- ordering fairly conservatively, but that's storewide. (Actually more than storewide, since I can see that a number of the larger...

#5: If you're going to give up a big chunk of revenue to get existing customers to upgrade, it's much more fun to hire burly men to beat them up and take their old books away than it is to give them a discount on buying new books. I mean, if you're going to be called an "evil capitalist", you...

Finally got to leaf through this tonight and I like it a lot. Every critter I looked at made me say, "Yeah, I could build a neat adventure around that", which is pretty much my personal benchmark for good creatures. I also got a big kick of of the Asian-themed creatures, Mindcrime. Should...

(Chris Pramas's outline of his approach to the game snipped) Damn, Chris, that sounds like it would have been seriously cool. I'm not sure I would have bought the starter idea as is -- ($13 x number of players) does seem a little high as a jump-in point, and I think I would have preferred to...

I may have asked you this before, Nicole -- if so, damn my fading memory -- but there's something I'm a bit curious about. If the original Chainmail gang had been able to do it the way they wanted to, what do you think it would the line have been like, and what kind of niche would it have found...

Actually, I think retailers are fairly aware of it. It's not in people's computer systems because it's been a little unclear when the book would release and what its vital statistics are. I don't think I've seen an ISBN or SKU number, for instance, though it's possible I just missed it in the...

Yes, I know the title sounds dirty. :) Dynasties & Demagogues has been out for a couple of weeks now, so I'm starting the next phase in my obsessive quest to understand the publishing and sales process. Since there's no rational system for tracking industry stocking and sales, I'm going for as...