At 12:51 PM 18/10/2000 , you wrote:
>What sort of advertising do you have for gaming products down in
>Australia? Here in Colorado (USA), I haven't seen any kind of advertising
>at all. There isn't anything in Dragon Magazine (#277 November). Shoot,
>Dragon is filled with ads for computer games - I've only seen a few
>products that are specifc to role-playing games. Stores don't advertise in
>the paper (as far as I know) and rely totally on word of mouth and the
>yellow pages.
Little hand written signs saying. 'Creature Collections: a monster
compendium for D&D 3rd Ed out on Oct 13th,
ask me about it' on the cash register right beside the release date for
the Monster Manual. ;-)
>Just wondering how the word got out to pre-sell copies of the CC. Maybe
>every gamer is on one mailing list or another where the announcement went out.
Possibly in some cases I know down here that I work with a good number of
gamers
that are involved in clubs and conventions so it spreads easy
> > I think the real test for CC won't come until six months down the
> > track or at least until RR
> > comes out. One store reckons just over 1 in 4 of people buying MM
> > wanted CC and not many
> > asked about the price (hell I don't know how much mine cost).
>
>RR? Sorry, don't catch the reference.
RR == Rituals and Relics, advertised in the back of CC.
>1 in 4 of MM sales can't be all bad. What's the PHB at now? The first
>print run was 1 million? And they just went to the printers for a second
>run to meet Christmas demand? Did I hear all that right?
But there are less MM being sold than PHBs.
In the groups/club I am involved (among 30 players) we have 9 PHBs, 5 DMGs,
2 MMs and 2CCs among all.
I expect that to go to about 15PHB,7DMG,7MM and 3CC by the end of the year.
Now what I wonder about is the fact that all we have at the moment for the
setting is a Monster Book, intro and list of gods
enough to keep interest until we get a concrete setting (or even a map).
regards,
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