Sell me on creating new d20 fantasy PDFs . . .

[philreed]

Have you considered that some of your products may perhaps be too niche? 101 Feats and Another 101 Feats sold well, I believe, or at least I think they hit Silver on RPGNow.com.

Actually, those two turned out to be dogs. Sure they've each sold over 100 copies in about 6-7 months but if I compare that to other releases in the series they're about 35-50% where they should be. And factoring time working on them it just makes things worse.

 

[philreed]

I like Joe's idea though. If you truly enjoy it work on them when you can and release them as you can; let your higher income products take precedence but don't give up on it.

I may just give that a try.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Actually, those two turned out to be dogs. Sure they've each sold over 100 copies in about 6-7 months but if I compare that to other releases in the series they're about 35-50% where they should be. And factoring time working on them it just makes things worse.

Not enough reviews on the old En World database maybe?

I know my own number of reviews for PDF stuff is somewhat down which is why I added a few in recently with a few more coming.

 

[doghead]

Actually, those two turned out to be dogs.

Hey.

the head of the dog

 

[Pinotage]

Not enough reviews on the old En World database maybe?

I know my own number of reviews for PDF stuff is somewhat down which is why I added a few in recently with a few more coming.

I suppose that begs the question as to whether reviews sell products, but that's an entirely different topic to this thread.

Phil, if you enjoy doing fantasy, I say keep doing it but in your spare time. If you only release half or even a quarter of what you normally did, at least then it won't interupt your other work and you still get more fantasy out there.

Pinotage

 

[philreed]

Not enough reviews on the old En World database maybe?

I'm not sure if reviews would help. From what I can tell reviews rarely have a measurable impact on sales. In fact, there's only one reviewer that I saw a definite spike in sales when his review posted. Additionally, the few other times I've seen a slight increase were from reviews posted at RPG.net.

 

[Crothian]

I'm not sure if reviews would help. From what I can tell reviews rarely have a measurable impact on sales. In fact, there's only one reviewer that I saw a definite spike in sales when his review posted. Additionally, the few other times I've seen a slight increase were from reviews posted at RPG.net.

I have to ask who is that reviewer? I need to figure out what he's doing right.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I've enjoyed the fantasy products of yours I've picked up. If I ever manage to win the lottery and can devote the time I would like to gaming, I'll start buying more products again. Right now I have so many things I've never used I can't justfy buying more. I'll let you know.

 

[Nebulous]

I'm not sure if reviews would help. From what I can tell reviews rarely have a measurable impact on sales. In fact, there's only one reviewer that I saw a definite spike in sales when his review posted. Additionally, the few other times I've seen a slight increase were from reviews posted at RPG.net.

I can offer moral support. I love the 101 Mudane Items list and bought both of them. I thought they were extremely creative, and i bought them sight unseen, without reading a review (this was a while back)

That said, as a gamer i really feel there is a glut of material. I don't want all these options. It's overwhelming, and difficult and time consuming to separate the good from the bad. High quality demos can help a lot in that respect.

 

[Arnwyn]

So "sell me" (convince me) on writing new releases . . . even though I cannot make enough money selling them to cover my writing time.

No thanks. Your general income (you know, to live) comes first.

But then, I'm surprised that anyone can make a living selling PDFs, of all things. I've never thought there was a market for them.