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I've just read an interesting story about that. Basically a bargain-hunter that gets seriously burned by the true "connaisseur" who ends up getting the real good deal. True, the so-called "nouveau-riche" tend to be terrible bargainhunters. Terrible in the sense that they are always doing it...

Hey Marcel ;) In my case, it has nothing to do with wether or not I can afford it. If I really wanted Ptolus, I'd get it anyway. Of course, it would affect the number of other books I'd get. I do have a -limited- amount of money I spend on gaming books, and if I spend 120$ on one instead of...

See, again, they make it sound like like they are not shipping the book to the distributors who service Amazon out of spite, and not because said distributors "screw them over" in any way. Which, as a customer, is annoying as heck.

You never worked in the PR field, eh? What you -do- say is "hey, we offered them the same deal the LGS' distributors get. They turned us down. What can we do?" You -don't- say "We made sure book distributors didn't get a shot at this book."

That is the silliest thing I have ever heard. Assuming (and I understand that this assumption is, somewhat, in contention) that the producer gets the same amount of money for each book sold, why would the producer care if the end customer pays "full price" or gets it at a reduced price, or even...

Admitedly, it's been a while, but I remember more smugglers down there. Of course, they might have been added by the DM, since, as it was, while a tough fight, we still won with no PCs dying (although one got dropped in the negatives). But since we were an experienced group with goo tactics...

I think you missed my point. I fully agree that the book distributors would very most likely told them to stuff it. Honestly, for a book distributor, Ptolus is nothing. But in the gaming community, Ptolus is.. Well, probably medium-sized. So the ability to truly say "Well, we offered to have...

You -do- understand that this basically mean that you believe people who buy all their books at Amazon shouldn't play at all, because by playing, they are hurting the hobby? Edit: I just realized after posting this that you might just be talking about Ptolus, which isn't (apparently) available...

Hey no problem, I understand there's a lot going on that I don't know about, which is at least half my reason for posting. :) Let me ask a newbie question. Instead of simply not offering the book to book distributers (or whatever it's called :) ), would it have been possible to offer it to...

But.. Wouldn't direct sales (on a large scale, of course) -totally- destroy FLGs, which is pretty much the main reason Amazon is so despised?

Wow, lotsa Ks, eh? That would work fine by me. I base Kadoch's drinking prowesses on his almost inhuman CON of 20. ;) To help figuring out possible previous links, here's Kadoch's redux character. Second son of a well-known blacksmith, trained in the trade with a specialization in armoring...

But if Amazon didn't sell enough books, when compared to LGS, to make the book a success, the argument that the book being sold at Amazon hurts LGS becomes a bit shaky, no?

Put the decision to go out of his way to try and prevent Amazon to sell the book, or at least sell it using their regular marketing techniques doesn't prevent you from making that decision. In fact, it encourages it. See, I understand Mr Cook's reasons for doing it, or at least I think I do...

QFT When we buy stuff at Amazon, we don't take any money from the people who produces the books. We take money away from distributors and LGS. In fact, in many case we give -more- money to the people who produces the books, since, most of the time, the money "saved" is used to buy -more-...

Hey, I'm actually a pretty big Malhavoc fan myself. I run an Iron Heroes game, I have Arcana Unearthed.. (all ordered through Amazon, btw). I'm just a bit.. Puzzled by the decision of going out of your way to make sure Amazon cannot get the book. Well, puzzled is the wrong word here, since...

Yeah, this is kind of a weird decision. The only store locally that sells RPG books, for me, is Waldenbooks. They do stock WotC products, but that's about it. Frankly, I don't really feel "better" supporting them than Amazon. And in many cases, even if I wanted to, I couldn't. So I do all...

Normand quickly brings his weapon into firing position, and keeps it trained on one of the men as he moves towards them, allowing himself only short glances to the surrounding area, looking for other people. As he advances, he repeatly yells one of the few arab words he recently picked up...

Mr "I die? No problem!" So this is a WFRP campaign, but it could have just as easily been D&D. Guy's character dies. So does he roll up a new character? No. He just takes his character sheet and writes "II" next to his character's name. He even wrote an extra 'I' later on.

Doh! I was specifically looking for a starting location, so I just browsed over that because it was talking about having a reason to adventure. :) Alright, Aquilonian... I also have no problem with knowing some/all of you from before. Kadoch is fairly green as a traveler, and would have...

Oh, I just realized I hadn't picked languages yet. Where are we going to be starting at?