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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6809480" data-attributes="member: 20323">[MENTION=467]Reynard[/MENTION] I totally agree with you in principle about going for quality. But financially I'm not sure if doing commissioned art/maps as a little guy makes sense. If you look at a lot of the products on DM's Guild they're &quot;pay what you want&quot; with an average paid price of roughly $1.50. A commissioned full page piece of color art or map could easily run you $100. And remember that DM's Guild (technically OneBookShelf &amp; WotC) takes a 50% royalty on every sale. So to recoup the price of a $100 commission, under the &quot;pay what you want&quot; model (where you're averaging profits of $0.75 per sale), you'd need to bring in about 133 sales to break even. I'm just not sure what kind of volume DM's Guild sales numbers look like, but my hunch is that reaching 133 sales would be a significant milestone for a little guy.That explains why few of the products I've seen use original commissioned art, and instead favor no art, Public Domain art, stock art, etc.&nbsp;[MENTION=6802386]bristolscale7[/MENTION] While I do think that WotC will eventually release some kind of map, I doubt it's a high priority, so I'd look for ways to handle what you need for your product. For example, you can find some rough public domain FR maps here - <a href="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Public_domain_images" target="_blank">http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Public_domain_images</a> - nothing like the high-res map you mentioned, but better than nothing. You can also use GIMP or Photoshop or a similar graphics editor, put the high-res map on a bottom layer, then trace over the area you need using your tablet/mouse. I've done some quick n' dirty maps like this for home games, and once you know the software you can spend about 1 hour to get something presentable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 6809480, member: 20323"] [MENTION=467]Reynard[/MENTION] I totally agree with you in principle about going for quality. But financially I'm not sure if doing commissioned art/maps as a little guy makes sense. If you look at a lot of the products on DM's Guild they're "pay what you want" with an average paid price of roughly $1.50. A commissioned full page piece of color art or map could easily run you $100. And remember that DM's Guild (technically OneBookShelf & WotC) takes a 50% royalty on every sale. So to recoup the price of a $100 commission, under the "pay what you want" model (where you're averaging profits of $0.75 per sale), you'd need to bring in about 133 sales to break even. I'm just not sure what kind of volume DM's Guild sales numbers look like, but my hunch is that reaching 133 sales would be a significant milestone for a little guy. That explains why few of the products I've seen use original commissioned art, and instead favor no art, Public Domain art, stock art, etc. [MENTION=6802386]bristolscale7[/MENTION] While I do think that WotC will eventually release some kind of map, I doubt it's a high priority, so I'd look for ways to handle what you need for your product. For example, you can find some rough public domain FR maps here - [url]http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Public_domain_images[/url] - nothing like the high-res map you mentioned, but better than nothing. You can also use GIMP or Photoshop or a similar graphics editor, put the high-res map on a bottom layer, then trace over the area you need using your tablet/mouse. I've done some quick n' dirty maps like this for home games, and once you know the software you can spend about 1 hour to get something presentable. [/QUOTE]

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