Your opinions on a monster book idea

[seankreynolds]

Say I'm creating a new d20 book of monsters.
Say I have a color illustration for every monster.
Say the book runs 32 pages (1 cover, 1 TOC, 30 pages of monsters).
Say I include a page of color monster illos that you can print out to be counters a la Fiery Dragon Productions' counters.

Would you find it valuable if this 32-page PDF repeated the 30 monster pages with black & while illos & black & white counter illos, so those of you without color printers could print out a version of the book with clean line-art instead of possibly-indistinct grayscale images? Or would that annoy you?

I'm talking about billing and selling a product as a 32-page product, but including the additional 30 pages with B&W illos swapped in for free.

 

[alsih2o]

sounds like a heck of a useful idea if it is priced right

 

[roytheodd]

I'm all about b&w printouts. I'd buy it if the monsters were cool.

 

[maddman75]

That is an incredibly cool idea. I use counters more than minis these days, so I'd be all up on that.

 

[jgbrowning]

Yep. If your going to do a color PDF make a B&W version for people's printers. Everyone likes both, even if they don't use both. Try to go light on the black as well because that eats up a lot of ink.

Only possible issue i see is with file size, but that shouldn't be too bad since it'll still be pretty short.

joe b.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I say that sounds like a good idea. Saving color ink is a big deal, and since its a PDF, you can just not print out the pages you don't want...

Now, a question: Would the B&W illos be merely uncolored versions of the color illos, or would there be two different pieces of art for each monster? If so, I don't know if the added art cost would make it worthwhile from the publisher's POV, but if its just a colored/uncolored thing, go for it. I wouldn't see a downside.

 

[CRGreathouse]

As a PDF? Yeah, that would be great.

OK, where can we buy it? I want it already. Is this something you're planning to do with Malhavoc, or elsewhere?

 

[Crothian]

Ya, having black and white version to print out would be very good.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

That sounds like a very good idea to me!

 

[jaerdaph]

One of the best features of PDF publishing is the ability to allow multiple options to satisfy all of your customers. Other PDF publishers offer this option already for this reason, so I say go for it!