Printing Campaign Documents

[the Jester]

So tonight I spent about $20 each printing and binding 6 copies of my campaign setting, with tab dividers for the various stuff. That's with a nice employee discout for working at Kinkos, too. I know several of my players want copies, so I figure they'll shell out for the document. I even threw in a few pictures and stuff! Has anyone else done this sort of thing?

 

[Flyspeck23]

No. All I ever do is sending the latest campaign handout as a PDF to all my players (these include maps, but no other illustrations).

On the other hand, if I had a complete book for my homebrew, I'd print and bind it too.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I build as HTML web pages and burn to CD and give to my players.

 

[cmanos]

I printed and laminated 10 warbands for a Khemri presentation at Gamesday 2002. Wasn't that bad but still...they've only been used once.

 

[MarkAHart]

I put together a campaign book for one of my worlds a couple years ago, about 300 pages long, but I couldn't afford to have it printed, copies, and bound -- I just gave it in PDF form on CDs to players. One of my players, however, went to Kinko's, had it printed out (double-sided, high quality glossy paper, with color), and then had it bound. The binding cost $55 (a nice binding with gold lettering on the spine -- made me a bit jealous). The copying, however, was substantially more than he expected...because there was color on each page, and with the high quality paper, the copying alone came to $300. My friend hadn't expected that price, so it was a somewhat rude awakening. His copy of my worldbook looks fantastic, but it cost him $350 by the time he was done.

For a previous campaign world, I printed out a shorter book and had copies hardbound for those players willing to defray the costs. It was a relatively inexpensive pressure binding -- it looked nice, but didn't hold up too well to backpack treatment.

 

[Insight]

Once our campaign world is actually done - and I have no idea when that might be - I was planning to have copies made for research purposes. We have a round robin sort of group where everyone takes a turn at the DM's chair, so having several printed copies of the Gazetteer would make sense.

 

[eris404]

If I print mine out for the players, I might do so after hours at my job, where I can do so for....errrr....free.

But, I'll probably just put some things on the web, distribute other things as a PDF to players and print out a hard copy of the whole thing for myself. I'm not sure how many people in my group would actually do more than skim it anyway.