D&D 5E DM's Guild: The Advice You Didn't Ask For

[mach1.9pants]

Do people not do previews anymore? As a consumer, I at least want the flash preview option so I have an idea as to what I'm paying for. As a publisher, I think it's the least you should do.

Yeah I certainly would buy anything without a preview from an unknown source. Some products tho, with incorrect capitalisation AND punctuation in the TITLE, are easily disregarded!

 

[Reynard]

I get the feeling that there is going to be a lot of chaff early on.

 

[MerricB]

well I did the best I could. I posted my first attempt...it's basically formatted like a college report not like a professional layed out PDF and has 0 art in it, but I'm trying.

if any of you think that my next attempt should be done better let me know... (I hope a lot of people like Robocop and say "I';d buy that for a dollar..."

http://www.dmsguild.com/product/171070/Martial-Options?term=Martial+optio&filters=45469_0_0_0_0_0

From the marketing text:
"A great new set of options for mostly non casters. This includes 3 new 5 level prestige classes and 15 new manuvers for the Battle Master sub class of fighter"

Better version:
"Explore a new collection of options for martial characters! Martial Options presents 15 additional maneuvers for the Battle Master and three 5-level prestige classes."

Cheers!

 

[GMforPowergamers]

From the marketing text:
"A great new set of options for mostly non casters. This includes 3 new 5 level prestige classes and 15 new manuvers for the Battle Master sub class of fighter"

Better version:
"Explore a new collection of options for martial characters! Martial Options presents 15 additional maneuvers for the Battle Master and three 5-level prestige classes."

Cheers!

well thank you very much Merric... I have updated it.

I have so far sold 4 of these... witch gives me $2, and would cost me $2 to cash out...so Unless you are WAY better then me, I would not count on getting rich doing this...

But thanks everyone that has or will help with this little experiment, next week I will come back and let you know how it is going...

 

[Morlock]

I think the term "grammar nazi" has the opposite of the effect intended. It makes the Nazis sound good.

Valve isn't going to vet any of these. They found a way to make 10% of the sales, of enthusaistic fan content, with ZERO labor on their part. It's pretty ingenius.

FIFY.

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

And make sure you know how to use an apostrophe. No, an apostrophe is not for plural nouns. No, "it's" is not the possessive form of "it"; it's a contraction of "it is".

If you use the word "rouge" instead of "rogue" there are a large number of us who will petition WotC to ban you from the Guild for life.

Learn the difference between "parley" and "parlay", something WotC took a few years to learn. And on a related note, make sure you never have a "see page xx" in your work.

 

[BoldItalic]

From the marketing text:
"A great new set of options for mostly non casters. This includes 3 new 5 level prestige classes and 15 new manuvers for the Battle Master sub class of fighter"

Better version:
"Explore a new collection of options for martial characters! Martial Options presents 15 additional maneuvers for the Battle Master and three 5-level prestige classes."

Cheers!

How do people feel about British authors using British spellings? If I had written, for example,

... fifteen new manœuvres ...

would it jar on you, or would you think it was "kinda quaint"?

 

[mach1.9pants]

It would be correct, and therefore, awesome!

Rule Britannia!
Britannia rule the etymon

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

I tell you what, getting everything to fit nicely into two columns on a page is not as easy as I thought it would be.

I am slightly more confident than I would have been otherwise, thanks to some of the recommendations I've read in this thread.

Thanks, everyone.

 

[GHammy26]

I'm pretty sure that's $2 per withdrawal, not per sale.

So let's say you write some pamphlets, priced at $1 each. You manage to sell a total of 500 of them over a period of time. That's $500 in sales, $250 of which go into your DM's Guild account. Then, when you want OBS to put that money in your actual Paypal account, that costs $2, so you only get $248.

granted, but the funds are only held for 40 days. I think you're overestimating how many people will buy pamphlets.

Say I did put $1 per pamphlet and 15-20 people buy it in the 40day time frame, that's $15-20 which is barely worth the time I've put into my work as 60+% is being taken from me... I'm still going to put it up as the only way to make a name for yourself is start small and grow but the pay system is still a bit crap...