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<blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 3471481" data-attributes="member: 16077">Hmm,First, I'd sell the brand to someone competent...&nbsp; You really need a group of people who are really creative who are managed by suits who *understand* the game and the business and can make the call as to when to spend money on development or not.I'd make the books as both dead trees and as PDFs.&nbsp; Stand-alone PDF would be cheaper than dead tree.&nbsp; Purchase of the dead tree books would provide access to a secure server to download a pdf copy.&nbsp; This is the thing that amazes me the most.&nbsp; Chances are that they use Acrobat to pre-flight things before they go to print, so it isn't like the PDFs aren't *already* factored into the cost of the books.I'd do a Kaizen event of some sort to look at the various existing digital tools out there (RPGXplorer, PCGen, DMGenie, etc.) and see which one was the best and whether or not it made any sense to develop their own tools or provide licensing and support to an existing tool.Unfortunately, it seems that they probably didn't do one, considering they canceled CMP's license (I don't particularly care for CMP, but that is besides the point).I'd use the website as a medium, not an end in itself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="3catcircus, post: 3471481, member: 16077"] Hmm, First, I'd sell the brand to someone competent... You really need a group of people who are really creative who are managed by suits who *understand* the game and the business and can make the call as to when to spend money on development or not. I'd make the books as both dead trees and as PDFs. Stand-alone PDF would be cheaper than dead tree. Purchase of the dead tree books would provide access to a secure server to download a pdf copy. This is the thing that amazes me the most. Chances are that they use Acrobat to pre-flight things before they go to print, so it isn't like the PDFs aren't *already* factored into the cost of the books. I'd do a Kaizen event of some sort to look at the various existing digital tools out there (RPGXplorer, PCGen, DMGenie, etc.) and see which one was the best and whether or not it made any sense to develop their own tools or provide licensing and support to an existing tool. Unfortunately, it seems that they probably didn't do one, considering they canceled CMP's license (I don't particularly care for CMP, but that is besides the point). I'd use the website as a medium, not an end in itself. [/QUOTE]

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