tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28751902.post5776418983976459596..comments2024-03-26T02:31:48.024-05:00Comments on Trollsmyth: What's it Worth to Ya?trollsmythhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01895349218958093151noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28751902.post-45011186987984773732019-05-27T09:16:44.418-05:002019-05-27T09:16:44.418-05:00I love reading your articles. Thank you very much....I love reading your articles. Thank you very much. Write more.pay for essayshttps://writepaperfor.me/pay-for-essaysnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28751902.post-45002747899272895252016-05-11T15:54:55.828-05:002016-05-11T15:54:55.828-05:00It's a fool's errand; trying to monetize R...It's a fool's errand; trying to monetize RPGs, I mean. I said on this topic elsewhere that what D&D did was <i>free the imaginations</i> of people all over the world. It doesn't matter what the rules are if you engage the imagination of your audience, no matter where you sit at the table. Publishing more "original" game materials is a diminishing return: trying to convince people that you've got something new is, over these past 40 years, going after smaller and smaller portions of the mass market.Mujadaddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07698839746240695386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28751902.post-75913494314496977862016-05-10T12:27:43.872-05:002016-05-10T12:27:43.872-05:00Someone vandalizing my yard just isn't the sam...Someone vandalizing my yard just isn't the same thing as someone publishing an RPG book. Now if I hire you to dig me 1 hole and you dig a dozen I'm not paying for the 11 more, but this still doesn't equate to an RPG book where the publisher has to be producing something I value before I start waving my money and seemingly a significant portion of the market expects lavishly illustrated color books.<br /><br />The 15 pages of value deal is however very much on the mark, likely why I've been more prone to pick up smaller pdf titles in general as of late. Of course part of that reason might also be the couple/few hundred books I already have all over my office; in all actuality I could probably pick a half dozen pdfs and a half dozen RPG books at random and have enough materials for a campaign that could last a decade. JDJarvishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691101939920824546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28751902.post-29690019677425447422016-05-10T10:43:29.576-05:002016-05-10T10:43:29.576-05:00JDJarvis: I won't deny that people can seem te...<b>JDJarvis:</b> I won't deny that people can seem terribly fickle when it comes to value. What people will balk at to pay for gasoline is seen as a bargain for coffee. People value stuff based on buzz, on color, heck, even on mere weight. The trick, then, is to get them to value a product more highly. This is called marketing.<br /><br />As for page counts, meh. Are those extra pages valuable? If I'm only getting 15 pages of value out of a book, every additional page is a detriment, not a bonus. If I was only getting 15 pages of value from a 60 page book in '85, and I'm only getting 15 pages of value out of a 400 page book today, why should I value the larger, bulkier, harder-to-use-at-the-table book more highly than its slimmer, more efficient counterpart? <br /><br />Just because you put effort into a thing doesn't give it value to someone else. If I go to your home and meticulously excavate a dozen carefully arranged three-foot-deep holes in front of your house, that doesn't mean you're not going to be pissed about some looney digging up your yard. Me demanding payment for all my effort is just adding insult to injury.trollsmythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01895349218958093151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28751902.post-4722150546521104712016-05-10T09:02:53.998-05:002016-05-10T09:02:53.998-05:00People are odd in accepting what they think the ri...People are odd in accepting what they think the right cost for something is. Folks balk at a $60.00 game book but the same people will easily spend $10.00+ on food, snack, and drinks session after session for years on end, they'll spend $20.00 for a movie ticket and snacks. Eating out once a week and a movie once a month will easily run someone $80.00 and that money isn't buying something they could be using 20 or 30 years from now (I still uses my DMG from a long long time ago).<br /><br />As for people thinking things should be priced as they were back in the day, they seem to be forgetting the page counts were different, and the cover was often the only thing in color. Based on CPI alone buying what $10.00 could buy you in 1985 would cost $22.00 today. But anyone recall 400 page full color RPG books from back then? Or 200 page books? Or even 60 pagers ? There weren't many at all because they would have been too expensive for most of their audience. JDJarvishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691101939920824546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28751902.post-43112637290185170902016-05-10T09:01:11.350-05:002016-05-10T09:01:11.350-05:00Sean Robert Meaney: there might be copyright issue...<b>Sean Robert Meaney:</b> there might be copyright issues with selling something openly labeled Mystaran or Creature Catalogue II, but otherwise, I'm very much on record as being a fan of <a href="http://trollsmyth.blogspot.com/2006/09/dont-go-there.html" rel="nofollow">profits for encouraging and enabling creators.</a><br /><br /><b>Chris C.:</b> and that's why I think there's lots of room out there for many sorts of creators. Some people <i>want</i> setting material, others want GM aids, some want random tables, some can't stand random tables and want meticulously crafted adventures. For those of us playing regularly, the challenge is less coming up with material than it is finding an audience/market for it.trollsmythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01895349218958093151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28751902.post-80913675340574479792016-05-10T06:32:00.161-05:002016-05-10T06:32:00.161-05:00I think that's a fair bar to set. My own purch...I think that's a fair bar to set. My own purchases in recent years have drifted away from certain types of products (e.g. settings) because I simply don't use them. I pretty much limit myself now to products I will use like rules or GM aids that help me make adventures.Chris C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08655640273250716377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28751902.post-38857873924794441222016-05-10T04:30:18.994-05:002016-05-10T04:30:18.994-05:00So if i dump my year of chaos pdf on you with a ye...So if i dump my year of chaos pdf on you with a year of mystaran dnd campaign events or my dnd creature catalogue II filled with my own poor quality artwork out there that I basically give away free on the market because i didnt create it for money you suggest its the sort of useful thing i should be shilling...Sean Robert Meaneynoreply@blogger.com