Sell me on creating new d20 fantasy PDFs . . .

[jgbrowning]

Still going to have hardcopies at GenCon?

If there're no surprises, yep.

joe b.

 

[Treebore]

I only read your OP, but if you need to be convinced to do this then 3E is in trouble. You and Mr. Browning have gotten a lot of my money, as well as CMG, so all I can tell you is I wish you could keep going, but if you can't, I'm very sorry to see you go.

 

[philreed]

Bigger hardcopy books are different.

Yes, they are. Here's one reason that they are different:

I was given a distributor order for 200 copies of a book. I printed and shipped the books off to the consolidator for delivery to the distributor.

The distributor took 25. After I was told 200.

That's one way in which printed books are different. And this was a 170-page book.

 

[philreed]

I only read your OP, but if you need to be convinced to do this then 3E is in trouble. You and Mr. Browning have gotten a lot of my money, as well as CMG, so all I can tell you is I wish you could keep going, but if you can't, I'm very sorry to see you go.

It's not that I don't want to create new d20 products (hell, I've got an idea for a complete setting/game I'd love to do -- my own variant PHB). It's that if I spend the exact same amount of effort on a non-d20 project I can sell more copies and make more money. A lot more. And, for me, this is a business and not a hobby.

 

[JustaPlayer]

Phil, do you only sell your products on RPGNow? I can't say as I've ever seen your work. I don't visit RPGNow that often. I hang my hat over at DriveThru.

 

[Treebore]

It's not that I don't want to create new d20 products (hell, I've got an idea for a complete setting/game I'd love to do -- my own variant PHB). It's that if I spend the exact same amount of effort on a non-d20 project I can sell more copies and make more money. A lot more. And, for me, this is a business and not a hobby.

Phil, you gotta do what you gotta do. If your other work is gaming related there is a good chance I would be buying that too. I don't play only 3E. I play Shadowrun and many other games that aren't d20, including GURPS, L5R, etc...

So if your other work is gaming related what are they? If it is stuff I like I can be like a groupie and follow you over there.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Phil, do you only sell your products on RPGNow? I can't say as I've ever seen your work. I don't visit RPGNow that often. I hang my hat over at DriveThru.

Scroll down, my son. (I'm assuming you've just not spotted Ronin Arts in the sidebar on the left, but they are there.)

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Scroll down, my son. (I'm assuming you've just not spotted Ronin Arts in the sidebar on the left, but they are there.)

In fact I believe that Ronin Arts is built into every piece of software dealing with PDF PoS. (Phil is on just about every PDF distributor's website... )

I have been worried that you might be thinking along these lines Mr. Reed, ever since you announced the end of the Dozen and 100 lines. In many ways you have helped define the PDF market.

The Auld Grump

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

My understanding is, rules sell, settings and adventures generally don't - with the understanding that nothing is selling right now.

Bummer.

Oh well, good thing that I'm not primarily doing Urbis for the money...

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

A Magical Society: Silk Road has been performing admirably. Our best release ever was 174 sales of a new product in one month. So far Silk Road has sold 70 and there are still 6 days left in this month. It's held the top-selling PDF slot at rpgnow.com since its release.

What, you released another Magical Society book recently?

I guess it's time to search for that credit card...