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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 236704" data-attributes="member: 158">I have to chime in here, with one thing: Very, VERY few one-hit wonders ever made their idea work on its own. It was usually picked up by someone else, who then through their own efforts made it bigger and better. Truly good writers can write well, and they can REPEAT their efforts.Even if you got so far as the 100-page setting bible, you would need to come up with 100 pages of material in a comparatively short time. If you really were the "one-hit wonder" you seem to think you are, you would stand no chance of having that setting go any further anyway. You wouldn't be able to finish the 100 pages of material they need in order to make the other half of that 20,000 dollars.Consider that your setting is good for two things: either getting published, and making a paltry sum of money in the scheme of things, or pleasing yourself and your players, and making NO money at all. If you have the prestige and clout to market your idea in the first place in a venue capable of making more than two cents, then it is unequivocally because you have already marketed other ideas that were found profitable. If this is your one hit, then you are sunk when you get out of the gate, because it's your door opener, and you won't go any further.P.S. George Lucas did not make scads of money from Star Wars (Episode 4). He actually had to have Fox Studios bankroll the last million dollars or so, in exchange for most of his profits. However, he kept the toy rights - something that had NEVER made money from a movie before. His deals with Kenner in the 70's and 80's were SWEEEEEET, and made him quite a lot of money. The fact that Star Wars was such a big success opened him to returning for the other two. If he had had only ONE big idea that worked, I firmly believe there would be no Empire strikes back, and no Return of the Jedi. There would be this sci-fi-/fantasy movie that caused a big stir in the 70's, but little remembered today.</blockquote>

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