Frank_Vinneti
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How much would you pay for a Prestige Class, or an Advanced Class, a detailed history/description for the class, 3 NPCs (low-level, mid-level and high-level), in a document of about 6-7 pages (US Dollars)?
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davidgeisbush
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I think there are plenty of classes out there for free right now, or you can pick up MPC and MPC2 (I highly recommend MPC, and MPC2 is worth $5 IMO). So I guess I wouldn't be interested in others unless MPC3 comes out and offers much more than just new classes.
For my part, classes are among the least important needs for Modern, right up there with another arms and equipment guide!
For my part, classes are among the least important needs for Modern, right up there with another arms and equipment guide!
Frank_Vinneti
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How about 30¢ + 20¢ per pages? Does that sound reasonable to you? With an average of 5 pages, that makes it 1.30$ for you.
Frank_Vinneti
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These would not be handbooks, but individual classes.
This just sounds like a bad idea, gone horribly wrong due to corporate America.
There are plenty of classes out there already, but there is room for more. But you won't be able to just sell 'a class' at a time. If you have a good set of ideas, write em out, and send them to a publisher to get put out there with some extra fluff, and with a good name on the cover so people might buy it.
I would never just 'buy a class' off a website, even if it was 10 cents...not to mention, if you're going to be doing this, you're going to be using credit cards (most likely) or paypal. Both of those services charge transaction fees. So you have to take that into account before you go setting prices too low. $1.30 may end up getting you whacked with .25 cents, so you're really not making that much out of it...and since even good PDFs don't often get more than 150-200 sales, you're not going to get even 50% of that being a website 'on your own' that isn't affiliated with a pdf sales site like rpgnow.
There are plenty of classes out there already, but there is room for more. But you won't be able to just sell 'a class' at a time. If you have a good set of ideas, write em out, and send them to a publisher to get put out there with some extra fluff, and with a good name on the cover so people might buy it.
I would never just 'buy a class' off a website, even if it was 10 cents...not to mention, if you're going to be doing this, you're going to be using credit cards (most likely) or paypal. Both of those services charge transaction fees. So you have to take that into account before you go setting prices too low. $1.30 may end up getting you whacked with .25 cents, so you're really not making that much out of it...and since even good PDFs don't often get more than 150-200 sales, you're not going to get even 50% of that being a website 'on your own' that isn't affiliated with a pdf sales site like rpgnow.
Frank_Vinneti
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Paypal charges 0.30$ + 2.9% for the Credit card billing. There is not other fee if you don't use credit card.
Greatwyrm
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While the idea is interesting, I'm not sure it's really the way to go. In my research, trying to get an existing publisher to print something I'd done always came out better than going it on my own. You'll probably make about the same money and have a lot fewer headaches.
The concept sounds easy enough, but take a look at the thread on credit card fraud and other subjects, written by the owner of RPGNow.
Heck, if you've got enough material together to do this website, take it to ENPublishing. You'll probably get more sales and be able to benefit from their experience.
The concept sounds easy enough, but take a look at the thread on credit card fraud and other subjects, written by the owner of RPGNow.
Heck, if you've got enough material together to do this website, take it to ENPublishing. You'll probably get more sales and be able to benefit from their experience.
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