How Much Would You Pay For TB:P in Print?

[mythusmage]

Dogmoon,

You've never spent a night alone or with just a few friends in black bear country, have you?

You, a couple of buddies, only canvas between your corpus and whatever slavering beast prowls about outside. Snuffling, snorting, grunts of effort as your supplies are casually dismantled. The scraping of claws upon wood, resulting in the 2 or 3 inch deep gouges you'll discover in oak and elm in the morning. If you're really lucky that 'mere animal' will stick its broad, massive head inside your tent and give you and your friends a lesson in what it means to be scared less.

You can talk of gin and beer when you're quartered safe out here, and you're sent to pennyfights and aldershot it. But when it comes to slaughter you'll do your work on water, and you'll lick the bloomin boots of him that's got it.

 

[Dog Moon]

Originally posted by mythusmage
Dogmoon,

You've never spent a night alone or with just a few friends in black bear country, have you?

No, though I once saw a bear in the woods, though we didn't dare go anywhere near it and backed away slowly. I'm not trying to say that you couldn't make normal animals interesting, but I guess I'm just one of those people who want to see new and weird things, fantastical things, in a fantasy game. I have nothing against the book or other similar books, I'm just not its target demographic.

 

[mythusmage]

No, though I once saw a bear in the woods, though we didn't dare go anywhere near it and backed away slowly. I'm not trying to say that you couldn't make normal animals interesting, but I guess I'm just one of those people who want to see new and weird things, fantastical things, in a fantasy game. I have nothing against the book or other similar books, I'm just not its target demographic.

I see. At the same time I must aver that how an encounter is handled counts for far more than what is encountered. Depending on the GM you can meet dragons that can't scare a toddler, and small dogs that make hardened adventuring veterans quail.

Sometimes the novelty lies more in how a creature is presented.

BTW, you wish to see another side of koalas, ask an Australian.

 

[danbuter]

Dan,

It's a $20.00 PDF greatly undervalued at $14.00. Comes with two PDFs, one with the book itself, the other with 5 cover pages. It's time to get over your animosity against PDFs.

No PDF is worth $20. $5 maybe.

 

[Pinotage]

Nothing in the poll that captures my fancy. It's a really good pdf by the look of its and the demo, but I'd rather just keep it in pdf. If I had to get it in print, $30 sounds about right if done properly.

Pinotage

 

[genshou]

No PDF is worth $20. $5 maybe.

I disagree. A well-written PDF can be worth as much as $10. A phenomenal PDF could run anywhere from $11-$20. Take the Elements of Magic books by Ryan Nock of E.N. Publishing. Selling those as PDFs for $5 apiece would be an insult to the time invested and the overall quality and genius of the design.

 

[Johnnie Freedom!]

Dan,

It's a $20.00 PDF greatly undervalued at $14.00. Comes with two PDFs, one with the book itself, the other with 5 cover pages. It's time to get over your animosity against PDFs.

Nah, I'm with him. PDFs suck. Why, when there's about fifty million print books for D&D, would I waste my $$$ on a friggin' computer file????

 

[Crothian]

Nah, I'm with him. PDFs suck. Why, when there's about fifty million print books for D&D, would I waste my $$$ on a friggin' computer file????

There is not even close to a million RPG books out there in the whoile industry. It might suprise people that some PDFs are better then the print books.

 

[Arnwyn]

If I were interested in the content, maybe $30.

But since I'm not, it's $0.

No vote.

 

[Pinotage]

Nah, I'm with him. PDFs suck. Why, when there's about fifty million print books for D&D, would I waste my $$$ on a friggin' computer file????

There's a lot of good stuff in pdfs that's not in print, for one. Besides, you can get print on demand for pdfs, meaning you can get a print copy of a pdf. You don't get a computer file, and you still get some very good content.

Pinotage