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Well, the best thing is that we finally get to see Pantless Hal... Oh, wait. That's their next book: In Too Deep... :D

We've been all sorts of busy this week as we get ready for a ghoulish good time. Check out the Bastion Press website and find out what we've been up to... BASTION PRESS COLUMN Todd Laing let's us view an evil within us in this week's column. http://www.bastionpress.com/column.htm INTO THE...

While I'm all for supporting the local gaming stores, if you're going to fall into the trap of special order, make sure the retailer understands that you're going to buy certain products when you find them at their store to give them a chance to order them in so you won't be forced to order from...

The problem is even worse then that. In some cases, publishers barely break even on a product release (and a new publisher loses money). Doing 2 (or 5) products that barely break even isn't much help, especially considering the amount of work involved in producing an RPG. And with product life...

The ENWorld of the past could have done just this. But ENWorld has changed a great deal since the days of Eric Noah. Now, many publishers view ENWorld not as neutral ground, but as yet another publisher trying to get pieces of the sales pie--and asking us for advertising revenue to support their...

I think what you're seeing is the start of a collapse; not consolidation. You've got a number of small companies that have determined that they can't produce products profitably any more, and they're moving to other companies or forming conglomerations. So, instead of 5 companies releasing 5...

by Kevin Melka, Darrin Drader, Brannon Hollingsworth, Steve Creech, Sam Witt, and Todd Laing The vast red desert domain of Arena sprawls south and westward from the nurturing plains of Penance. Spurred onward by the ancient promise of gold buried beneath the sands, massive armies of brutal...

When SVGames was started (after being spun off by Sean Vanderdasson, who ran the store at WotC), Bastion Press worked with them to get our products featured on the website. It was my hope that the sales we saw through SVGames would be sales that would otherwise be lost--customers who didn't know...

COLUMN The Bastion Press website has a new column this week, penned by longtime industry veteran Kevin Melka. You can see what Kevin has to say about the industry (and THAC0, and Cyborg Commando, and others), by visiting: http://www.bastionpress.com/column.htm OATHBOUND: ARENA Oathbound...

While we haven't done a lot on Ebay (I leave that to many of the local retailers out there that use Ebay as an extension of their retail operations), we did try to bundle the products and sell them directly to retailers via the standard distribution chain. We sold 8 copies. Given the amount of...

We're still planning to release our older products as PDFs (most of them, anyway).

That's defintely one way of looking at it. Another faction believes that lowering prices on old stock drives down desire for gamers to buy your latest releases at full retail, instead teaching them to wait for it to go 'on sale.' It likewise convinces retailers of brick and mortar stores that...

If there was a liquidator that could handle all of the extra products from the RPG hobby, I'm sure there would be more publishers looking to use them. As for retailers disliking them, that all depends if there's a game store near a book liquidator warehouse... I'm guessing that you're referring...

I've considered it, but I'm not aware of any that exist that focus on gaming products. A few companies have contacted me asking for terms on what is essentially remaindering, but that means I get to pay for shipping, wait for payment (assuming it ever comes at all), and not be able to write the...

It's true that we're better off in getting Cerificates of Destruction on products rather then trying to donate all of the books (since the freight costs incurred in shipping all these products out is an expense you'll have to pay, versus destroying and recycling them, which generates some small...

We don't offer them at a discount because doing so really irks the retailers that invest in our products. Some might have copies sitting on their shelves that they bought at full price, and those will be the ones that send me nasty-grams asking how they can receive their discount on older...

Bastion Press has always given our game products to conventions and other organizations that serve to strengthen and support the gaming community, and we'll continue to do that as part of our ongoing marketing efforts. These products are nearly 2 years old at this point, and we've widely...

As of October 1st, 2003 the following Bastion Press products will no longer be available for order. BAS-1000: Minions: Fearsome Foes. This 96-page, full-color book details wondrous monsters that are sure to add a spark to any campaign. Minions Link...

While I agree with Ryan that the direction the D20 STL is going is the wrong one, this change by WotC doesn't really come as a shock to me. It appears that someone inside WotC has decided that they should defend all of their trademarks to the same levels, and that means applying their own...

This is way off topic, but I just wanted to point out that the trademark on "Nazi" referred to the image of the Nazi, and it was a trademark owned by Lucas, not TSR. But you're right in that TSR was much worse in protecting its IP then Wizards ever was. Sean Reynolds and I fought long, bitter...