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<blockquote data-quote="EOL" data-source="post: 674496" data-attributes="member: 823"><p>I had mostly decided to stay out of this because I basically agree with the arguments that printing is a much greater investment of money, than PDF publishing.</p><p></p><p>I guess the problem I see is that there are PDF publishers and there are PDF publishers, some people certainly do toss together 25 pages of poorly playtested, badly written, horribly illustrated house rules and put it up on RPGNow. While others invest as much time playtesting, writing, designing, laying out and editing as a print product. There is still a gap between this person and a print publisher, but when comparing the highest end PDF publisher with the lowest end print publisher the gap narrows.</p><p></p><p>And I hate to bring my own stuff into the equation, because it seems immodest, but with the amount of time, money and effort I put into the dynamic generation system my adventures use I could have put out a print product. But of course the whole concept doesn't really work in print. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I pay market rate for the adventures and the art. So what's the difference between me and a print publisher?</p><p></p><p>Well time for one thing I'm still just getting started and like Clark when he first requested a copy of the new rules, I haven't really proved myself and that's a perfectly legitimate argument for them not to include me. One day my goal is to have enough name recognition that when I send in my NDA, WoTC says "Well of course we'll make an exception for him." But I don't think I'm there yet.</p><p></p><p>So I'll send in the NDA and see what happens. And if they decide not to include me, then it's their ball game and if they don't think I'm on the starting line-up I'm still pretty happy to be on the bench, waiting for my chance to prove myself.</p><p></p><p>Just my two cents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EOL, post: 674496, member: 823"] I had mostly decided to stay out of this because I basically agree with the arguments that printing is a much greater investment of money, than PDF publishing. I guess the problem I see is that there are PDF publishers and there are PDF publishers, some people certainly do toss together 25 pages of poorly playtested, badly written, horribly illustrated house rules and put it up on RPGNow. While others invest as much time playtesting, writing, designing, laying out and editing as a print product. There is still a gap between this person and a print publisher, but when comparing the highest end PDF publisher with the lowest end print publisher the gap narrows. And I hate to bring my own stuff into the equation, because it seems immodest, but with the amount of time, money and effort I put into the dynamic generation system my adventures use I could have put out a print product. But of course the whole concept doesn't really work in print. :) I pay market rate for the adventures and the art. So what's the difference between me and a print publisher? Well time for one thing I'm still just getting started and like Clark when he first requested a copy of the new rules, I haven't really proved myself and that's a perfectly legitimate argument for them not to include me. One day my goal is to have enough name recognition that when I send in my NDA, WoTC says "Well of course we'll make an exception for him." But I don't think I'm there yet. So I'll send in the NDA and see what happens. And if they decide not to include me, then it's their ball game and if they don't think I'm on the starting line-up I'm still pretty happy to be on the bench, waiting for my chance to prove myself. Just my two cents. [/QUOTE]
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