D&D 4E News
Other News
- Follow-up to the Spell Effect Markers Due to the success of the first Spell Effects - Flame, Armorcast and Baelor Miniatures will be releasing more in the next few weeks! These are Zone markers for D&D 4E.
- Official D&D Updates:
- Monument of the Ancients Dungeon Adventures Panicked refugees are fleeing from barbarian attacks in the north. Something ominous drives the nomads -- a "lost god" from Toril's past stands poised to shatter the ancient monument that keeps him imprisoned.
- Monument of the Ancients Dungeon Adventures Panicked refugees are fleeing from barbarian attacks in the north. Something ominous drives the nomads -- a "lost god" from Toril's past stands poised to shatter the ancient monument that keeps him imprisoned.
- Privateer Press now in PDF! Privateer Press has released its D&D 3.5 products in PDF format, including Iron Kingdoms materials, the Monsternomicons and the Witchfire Trilogy.
Other News
- [imager]http://enworld.rpgnow.com/images/1/64285.jpg[/imager]Coat of Arms Visual Designer Updated Perfect for designing coats of arms for noble characters, NPCs, countries and organizations. Updates include: Smoother shield shape, nicer name/motto scroll and 15 new charges.
- RPG Countdown Podcast listing the top selling PDFs at RPGNow/DTRP from 9-22 September 2009. The "hotlist" is:
- 10: The Spinward Marches, Game Designers’ Workshop
- 9: Bards, LPJ Design
- 8: Scoundrel, Mongoose Publishing
- 7: Calling the King, Wicked Dead Brewing Company
- 6: Arkham Detective Tales, Pelgrane Press
- 5: Rough Magicks, Pelgrane Press
- 4: Labyrinth Lord: Revised Edition, Goblinoid Games
- 3: Barbarians of the Aftermath, Jabberwocky Productions
- 2: DRAGONSHIRE: Deluxe Edition, Fat Dragon Games
- 1: Goblin Markets, White Wolf Publishing
- Energy drinks for gamers The RPG Examiner, clearly suffering form a shortage of interesting article topics, reviews a dizzying variety of caffeine-infused concoctions to keep you up long enough to finish one last adventure…
- ENnies Survey Please help us help you better and fill out the ENnie Awards Fan Survey!
- DrivethruRPG’s Print-on-Demand Book News:
We are, in fact, going forward with a full-on implementation of POD for our publishers. We are launching it in four phases:
Phase One: Publishers will be able to order small runs for use at conventions, or really any other reason they might need a limited set of printed books for. This is already up and running on a “test case” basis with some of our publishers, and will be fully implemented within a few more weeks.
Phase Two: Customers will be able to select printed versions of books they purchase from us, to be directly shipped to them. This will be a strictly opt-in system for publishers; some will choose to open their entire catalog to it, some will choose only to make “out of print” older products available, and some may not opt in for these sales at all. We hope to have Phase Two active by year’s end, perhaps even for holiday sales. It may not be until early 2010 before we can get a full launch of this, though.
Phases Three and Four get into some options we intend to launch to get books into retail stores. We’ve already spoken at length with many principles and potential partners and have agreements to move forward in ways we feel will be very beneficial to all concerned. These elements won’t be in play until sometime (probably late First Quarter or early Second Quarter) of 2010.
The Agreements we already have in place with our publishers will apply to these options, for the most part, including the direct revenue splits already agreed to. We won’t be applying the “Exclusive” test to products that are also in print in other channels; Exclusivity will remain attached only to electronic distribution of titles.
We believe we can encourage pricing structures that ensure maximum revenue for our publishers as well; I say “encourage” because, while we may have our own ideas about how to price things to make the most money, we fully expect publishers to experiment with many different models to find the “sweet spots” that work for them.
For those wishing to know, our primary source for POD will be Lightning Source, who we are working with very closely in order to maximize efficiency and get the best aggregated pricing. Their increasing distribution points in the global market are very encouraging for us, as well.
By the time we are done, it is my hope to change DriveThruRPG’s main tagline to “The World’s Largest RPG Store. Period.”
Phase One: Publishers will be able to order small runs for use at conventions, or really any other reason they might need a limited set of printed books for. This is already up and running on a “test case” basis with some of our publishers, and will be fully implemented within a few more weeks.
Phase Two: Customers will be able to select printed versions of books they purchase from us, to be directly shipped to them. This will be a strictly opt-in system for publishers; some will choose to open their entire catalog to it, some will choose only to make “out of print” older products available, and some may not opt in for these sales at all. We hope to have Phase Two active by year’s end, perhaps even for holiday sales. It may not be until early 2010 before we can get a full launch of this, though.
Phases Three and Four get into some options we intend to launch to get books into retail stores. We’ve already spoken at length with many principles and potential partners and have agreements to move forward in ways we feel will be very beneficial to all concerned. These elements won’t be in play until sometime (probably late First Quarter or early Second Quarter) of 2010.
The Agreements we already have in place with our publishers will apply to these options, for the most part, including the direct revenue splits already agreed to. We won’t be applying the “Exclusive” test to products that are also in print in other channels; Exclusivity will remain attached only to electronic distribution of titles.
We believe we can encourage pricing structures that ensure maximum revenue for our publishers as well; I say “encourage” because, while we may have our own ideas about how to price things to make the most money, we fully expect publishers to experiment with many different models to find the “sweet spots” that work for them.
For those wishing to know, our primary source for POD will be Lightning Source, who we are working with very closely in order to maximize efficiency and get the best aggregated pricing. Their increasing distribution points in the global market are very encouraging for us, as well.
By the time we are done, it is my hope to change DriveThruRPG’s main tagline to “The World’s Largest RPG Store. Period.”
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