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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Munkwunk" data-source="post: 5496809" data-attributes="member: 42254">One of the things I love about this industry is the ability for publishers of any size to put their ideas out there for the world to see, and occasionally to make a small margin of profit from it. I'm a huge fan of RPGNow/OneBookShelf and I tend to buy a lot of little supplements, some of which are only 4 pages in length (not including OGL) at a super cheap rate, if only to get ideas for my own games. I've developed quite a catalogue of these sorts of items over time myself, and especially for D&D -- 20-level base classes, monsters, items, etc. -- and I once had the idea to put a bunch of them together and publish them through RPGNow, but that sort of took a back seat to life for a while. My biggest issue though is that I am by no means an artist and am not planning on making enough money on the sale of such items to warrant commissioning an artist to draw pictures for each supplement. I have seen a few PDFs with no art whatsoever and I was wondering what you experienced folks thought of this practice? How much is too much to ask for, say, a new 20-level base class that doesn't have any art associated with it? $0.50? $1.00?  I'm more interested in sending these ideas out in to the wild than making a quick buck, but more importantly I want to gain some experience in the PDF Publishing arena to know what I'm doing for that time when some of my bigger, more full-featured projects (the ones I'll pay someone to add color to) are ready to publish. So the big question is: How important do you feel it is to have art attached to small, impulse-buy PDFs? Would it be worth it for me to try to sell them through OneBookShelf (bearing in mind I've already paid for a publisher's account) than to just list them on some freebie web site somewhere? Also, bear in mind that I have bigger projects in the works and am looking for some publishing experience, however little, at this time. Any advice or thouhts on the matter would be greatly appreciated.</blockquote>

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