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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 2179487" data-attributes="member: 94">I am glad to see so many Bad Axe products in your analysis-- but I think you're a bit unfair on Creature Creation.First let me just explain my pricing model.For PDFs that are identical to the print book, well, I just eyeball it. $9.95 for Heroes of High Favor in print (which I think we can all agree is a very nice price for the content). In PDF format, I just knock off about what it would cost to print it at Lulu, for example. So, $5.95.For PDFs that are a part of a larger print book (the Grim Tales PDFs for example) I figure out the price-per-page of the print version, and then price the PDF about the same (this works out to about .16 per page). At least, that was my initial instinct. A couple of things break this model. First, there's not much point to pricing anything below about $1.95 at RPGnow. That just clutters the market with stuff that's too cheap-- it annoys other publishers and annoys the admin, as well.(Hey, I can't help it if I can say everything that needs to be said about Mass Combat in 8 pages. I'm good that way. But we'll come back to that.)So, for starters, with my PDFs, I pretty much just rounded everything up to $1.95.However, please note that almost all of my PDFs, even the short ones, have some kind of Excel component for added value. It's hard to put an exact value on them-- except for Creature Creation.In the case of the Creature Creation PDF, you've just completely waved away the spreadsheet. Obviously what you're really paying for here is the spreadsheet. That spreadsheet took a lot of time to program-- much thanks to BryonD, who seriously undercharged me for the amount of work he put into programming it. Even so, I published that one with the expectation of actually losing money on the deal and, sure enough, I have yet to recover what I paid for programming the Excel sheet. But I think it's absolutely worth it-- I would have paid for that spreadsheet out of pocket, even if I never planned to publish it. (Just from a publisher's perspective, having a spreadsheet to calculate CRs with a great degree of accuracy to the core rules was worth the programming cost.)When it is all said and done, though, I think that Bad Axe products-- both in print and in PDF-- have some of the highest content-per-page of any products out there. I am sure there are a lot of folks who would prefer more art, or more fluff, or more breathing room in the layout, but my stuff is very, very dense with usable, portable material-- and in terms of the design work, very concise. A simple price-per-page estimate (for as much as my stuff competes even on that level) isn't a very good estimate of "value" with respect to Bad Axe stuff..... If'n I do say so myself...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Wulf</blockquote>

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