Are you doing your part to destroy the industry?

[diaglo]

Agreed. But what he meant was an exact reprint of that first set that's over 30 years old.

A product similar in spirit to the old red box, though, would be awesome.

well i really meant the Xeroxed copies pre-boxed up. but you could hardly read anyone's chicken scratch to make heads or tails of it.

so the boxed sets were a step up cuz they were typed and almost error free.

yes... my plan to revisit OD&D is almost coming to fruition for the world. just need to get someone with capital to buy in on it.

 

[Roudi]

What am I doing to destroy the industry?

I shamelessly produce and promote free gaming material. Just look at my list of crimes recently:

MODERNIZED Issue #1
MODERNIZED Issue #2
MODERNIZED Presents: Mecha Power Cores
MODERNIZED Presents: The Star Toad Adventure

If I had a soul, I'm sure I would feel ashamed.

Apparently, I also underprice the few things I do sell for money. I've had a couple of people comment that my 49-cent Urban Combat Mechas undercut and devalue their competing products.

Surely, this industry will collapse due to my benevolence alone.

 

[howandwhy99]

yes... my plan to revisit OD&D is almost coming to fruition for the world. just need to get someone with capital to buy in on it.

This is interesting. I thought you always said you weren't very good at writing?

 

[3d6]

I'm destroying the industry by not buying any books for two years or so. The last book I purchased was d20 Modern.

Honestly, you don't realize how worthless additional books beyond the core are until you quit buying them.

 

[Crothian]

Honestly, you don't realize how worthless additional books beyond the core are until you quit buying them.

The trick is to use the books you buy so they aren't worthless. While the suppliments are not needed for a game, if you don't have them you really can't determine their worth.

 

[Darkwolf445]

I shop Amazon if I want a hard copy, RPGNow or Drive thru if I am content with a pdf. It's not my job to support my FLGS. It wouldn't surprise me if buying PDFs are better for the industry, I mean, what is the overhead there? Oh, and if they pdf costs about the same as the hardcopy, I go Amazon (Some of them do it, WotC for example).

 

[philreed]

well i really meant the Xeroxed copies pre-boxed up. but you could hardly read anyone's chicken scratch to make heads or tails of it.

Now I know that if you had the resources you would definitely do you part to destroy not just the industry but the entire hobby.

 

[philreed]

Apparently, I also underprice the few things I do sell for money. I've had a couple of people comment that my 49-cent Urban Combat Mechas undercut and devalue their competing products.

I'm not sure I see this. Sure, I've published some single mecha PDFs, but they had a lot more to them than your $0.49 PDFs have. For one, they're illustrated.

I see it as giving the audience options, not destroying anything.

 

[diaglo]

This is interesting. I thought you always said you weren't very good at writing?

i can't write. the material to use is already written. it would be a new printing of existing out-of-print OD&D.

 

[The Cardinal]

I'm a good boy:
By the end of December I will have spent somewhere around 1200 Euros on RPGs in 2005, not counting console or computer games. In the past I've also written articles for Pyramid, and contributed (among others) to GURPS Horror3e, GURPS Steam-Tech, and Transhuman Space: Toxic Memes.