darklight said:
Hmmm...what is in this product, that I (or anyone else) can't make on my pc in a relatively short time?
Pointers on how to design your character and even full character questionaires can be found for free many places on the net, and besides that, what I hear being mentioned is space for this and room for that. I mean no disrepect, but that sounds like you're paying for blank space! I guess that's not quite true, but could you elaborate a bit, please?
I do realise that I can't make anything of proffessional print quality and that might sorta make up for it.
In relation to Terraism post about having it in pdf form, wouldn't it be fairly easy to make something similar yourself? There are already several good character generators out there (not 3.5 I know, but they most likely will be soon enough) and a document with simple forms to fill out is easy to make in a decent text editor, or even something like excel.
I appologize if I come accross as a whiner, my intent was merely to gain more info on this product. I own products by both Hal and Phil Reed, and they are of a high standard, so I'm curious to see what they make of this idea.
darklight
edit: spelling
Hey Darklight,
I would like to add to Phil's answer. First, you are making one of the most common mistakes that us active net RPGers make. We assume that most RPG players are 1) on the internet and active partcipants in the on-line RPG community and 2) the average gamers is as technically savy as the gamer who is active on the the net. This is not the case. The internet active community for RPGs and d20 is tiny compared to the general gaming public.
Your statements hold true for any print of PDF for sale version of a characters sheet or journal. Any one with the right skills can create one and there are many such items floating around on the net.
The thing is, the active gaming community on the net is a tiny fraction of the gaming community overall. Most do not have the skill, time, or knowledge to create such things or even where to find them.
The average gamer buys these types of items because they don't want to have to create one and probably don't know how. Even though many of them might be casual net surfers they would not even have a clue of where to look for the on-line tools and sheets and if they stumbled on them many not even know about or have things like adobe acrobat.
If all gamers were like you then GRs Character Record Folio would not likely be in a 4th printing as most gamers would take your position and download one of the character sheets on-line for free, find a character generator, etc, etc.
Even those that are on the internet often may not have the time or energy to create something like this with the level of detail we will have and the attractive, design oriented feel Phil will have in this product. I consider myself to have an average gamer's point of view on this topic. I am always using whatever tools make it easier for me and give me less work so that I can spend what little time I have for gaming...well, gaming. I buy all the character sheets and even though I am internet and technically savy I use both print products and on-line tools equally.
Thanks for the questions Darklight, we appreciate your interest.
