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<blockquote data-quote="daemonslye" data-source="post: 3486201" data-attributes="member: 6309">Scott/Linae, appreciate the continued discourse.I keep coming back to one pertinent fact.&nbsp; WOTC cancelled the magazines.&nbsp; I'd love to see any info you'd like to share on the market data that shows your customers preferring online to print.&nbsp; However, I suspect the decision had little to do with customer preference.I also appreciate that you have been flexible with Paizo regarding the announcement date &amp; extension.&nbsp; But, again, WOTC cancelled the magazines. &nbsp; If I'm wrong here, and the terms to Paizo to extend the license remained the same, please let us know or allow Erik to tell us why he &quot;mutually agreed&quot; to lapse the license.So, am I interested in the new WOTC digital push? Moderately.&nbsp; Am I MORE interested in your Print Initiative? Heck yes!So - enough of this DI business.&nbsp; You probably can't talk about it anyway (&quot;jibbe jabba&quot; indeed).&nbsp; Let's hear about your Print Initiative.&nbsp; Lets discuss what we want out of that:- Ongoing Print Periodical for Players and DM's - could include adventures in it's format or adventures could be in a separate periodical.- In some recurring form, Print Adventures with great artwork that includes content from long-time and new writers side-by-side;&nbsp; Getting 1 to 3 large (and $$$) adventures per month does not meet the need.&nbsp; (needless to say, neither does logging in, downloading, printing, and worrying about the digital format expiring)- Better tie in's across multiple adventures - e.g. Make the adventures smaller, cheaper, quicker in release and give tie ins across multiple - Remember the &quot;A&quot; series?&nbsp; The &quot;G&quot;, &quot;D&quot;, and &quot;Q&quot; (yes, I have &quot;Demonweb Pits/2007&quot; - Sorry, just not a fan of the Planescape/flavor of the planes; Things get treated a little too &quot;day-to-day&quot;: Ho Hum, we are going to another plane. Again...)- Rigorous playtesting across all Complete books.&nbsp; The &quot;power-level&quot; has been climbing again.&nbsp; We don't need a 4E to fix it.&nbsp; We just need some good quality assurance.&nbsp; Lots of folks around here can help!- I might be a minority, but I would buy a few updated/errated books for 3.5 e.g. Savage Species (updated to tone it down a bit), Fiend Folio, etc.- Greyhawk Hardcover (!!)- Hardcover adventure-path for Age of Worms, and later Savage-Tide (if you REALLY are friends with Paizo - Let them publish these).- Lots more when I have more time.&nbsp; Others - Jump in!I'll keep my $$'s to going to other companies until then.&nbsp; Getting my various groups right now looking at Iron Heroes (which seems fairly cool actually).~D</blockquote>

[QUOTE="daemonslye, post: 3486201, member: 6309"] Scott/Linae, appreciate the continued discourse. I keep coming back to one pertinent fact. [B][COLOR=Yellow]WOTC cancelled the magazines[/COLOR].[/B] [COLOR=Magenta]I'd love to see any info you'd like to share on the market data that shows your customers preferring online to print.[/COLOR] However, I suspect the decision had little to do with customer preference. I also appreciate that you have been flexible with Paizo regarding the announcement date & extension. [B][COLOR=Yellow]But, again, WOTC cancelled the magazines.[/COLOR] [/B] If I'm wrong here, and the terms to Paizo to extend the license remained the same, please let us know or [COLOR=Magenta]allow Erik to tell us why he "mutually agreed" to lapse the license.[/COLOR] So, am I interested in the new WOTC digital push? Moderately. [SIZE=4][COLOR=White][B]Am I MORE interested in your[/B][/COLOR][B] [COLOR=Cyan]Print Initiative?[/COLOR] [COLOR=White]Heck yes![/COLOR][/B][COLOR=White][/COLOR][/SIZE] So - enough of this DI business. You probably can't talk about it anyway ("jibbe jabba" indeed). Let's hear about your [B][COLOR=Cyan]Print Initiative[/COLOR][/B]. Lets discuss what we want out of that: - [B]Ongoing Print Periodical for Players and DM's[/B] - could include adventures in it's format or adventures could be in a separate periodical. - In some recurring form, [B]Print Adventures [/B] with great artwork that includes content from long-time and new writers side-by-side; Getting 1 to 3 large (and $$$) adventures per month does not meet the need. (needless to say, neither does logging in, downloading, printing, and worrying about the digital format expiring) - Better [B]tie in's across multiple adventures [/B] - e.g. Make the adventures smaller, cheaper, quicker in release and give tie ins across multiple - Remember the "A" series? The "G", "D", and "Q" (yes, I have "Demonweb Pits/2007" - Sorry, just not a fan of the Planescape/flavor of the planes; Things get treated a little too "day-to-day": Ho Hum, we are going to another plane. Again...) - [B]Rigorous playtesting across all Complete books[/B]. The "power-level" has been climbing again. We don't need a 4E to fix it. We just need some good quality assurance. Lots of folks around here can help! - I might be a minority, but I would buy a few updated/errated books for [B]3.5 e.g. Savage Species [/B] (updated to tone it down a bit), Fiend Folio, etc. - [B][U]Greyhawk Hardcover (!!)[/U][/B] - [B]Hardcover adventure-path [/B] for Age of Worms, and later Savage-Tide ([COLOR=Magenta]if you REALLY are friends with Paizo - Let them publish these[/COLOR]). - Lots more when I have more time. Others - Jump in! I'll keep my $$'s to going to other companies until then. Getting my various groups right now looking at Iron Heroes (which seems fairly cool actually). ~D [/QUOTE]

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