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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 3843442" data-attributes="member: 1879">Explain to me of what the use of the books will be. An RPG product is a fun way to spend my time both in the reading of it, and in employing it to play a game. A large portion of the fun of reading an RPG book comes from the ideas sparked off by it in the form of thoughts of "How can I use this to craft entertaining stories as a GM or player?" So do these apply to a preview book? Not really. I can get some vauge meta-gamey ideas of what sort of stories I may kinda be able to tell... maybe. But no more so than I would get by paying half the price for 3 times the page count from the SF shelves of my local book store. And can I play the game with it? No. It's a preview afterall, not a complete system.So it's not really an RPG product. Nor is it fiction. It's a bit of interest in an upcoming product, but as a modern consumer I'm perfectly well aware that you are asking me to pay $20 in order to be advertised to. Yippe. Would you go to a cinema that charged $20 to watch 90 minutes of trailers?Look, if it's going to be a 96 page softcover then just print it up in magazine format and charge $5. Heck I'll pay that just for a playbill at a theatre. But $20? That's 3 paperbacks and a cup of coffee worth of my dough, in order to get advertised at.It's not at all true that either adventures or novels are single use. I often loan out my novels to friends in order to discuss them later, and I will reread them after a couple of years. And I've run one adventure 3 different times (with different groups.) And even if I'm not rerunning the adventure they can pften be mined for locations or NPCs etc. But a preview? Utterly and completely obsolete the second the actual game hits the shelves.Unless there is something in that book that will prove to be of lasting value to me, I'd rather you printed it on newsprint and sold it for pocket change.</blockquote>

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