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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orcus" data-source="post: 3847908" data-attributes="member: 1254">RCX, not to respond to you directly since I dont know you (I dont think). But just to respond generally for any people thinking of being a "new" company meaning you havent yet put anything out and are waiting for 4E then there are perhaps two different issues: First, if you are planning on being a pdf publisher then the delay in the SRD is less problematic for you since you wont have to two month or more print turn around time that print publishers have. Second, if you are a "new" company planning to be a print company, your problem is not one of when you get the SRD your problem is convincing distributors to carry you. My understanding is that distibutors are licking their chops for the end of 3E/d20 and the ability to cut their company list of all the marginal d20 companies. If you are a new company thinking of starting up for 4E with print products make sure you have a distribution plan in place. The experience of the 3E glut has put a bad taste in distributors' and retailers' mouths. I dont see them making that mistake twice. Which means, as a result, if you werent in for 3E and havent already established a track record of good quailty product that hits on time that sells through reliably product after product, I'd be surprised to see any relevant distributors even sniff your new company. I'm not trying to be a dick or be all gloom and doom. Believe me, no one has been more supportive of new companies and encouraging people to follow their dream than me. But I also owe it to people to be realistic and give sound advice. Before you buy art and rack up stuff on the credit card thinking your "new" company for 4E will be a big hit, you better take the temperature of the distribtors and make sure they are going to carry you. Alliance solicitation is happening now for the relvant time period so you may have already missed the boat (not that you cant catch up, but you better get going).Clark</blockquote>

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