"Ryan S. Dancey" wrote:
> From: "Troll Lord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Well, now you have me curious. Care to elaborate as
> > to overnight printing and as to why anyone would do
> > such a thing?
>
> There are probably a dozen or so fairly well known designers who have
> expressed some interest in doing a D20 product. If inclined to do so, any
> number of those people could get together on Thursday, bang out a pretty
> rockin' adventure (assuming that it's not already pre-written awaiting
> official stat blocks) and get it produced using local printing resources.
To do so they would have to have everything ready but the stat blocks --
including a least a minimum amount of play testing to make the product less
likely to be a liability when addressing new material.
Clever graphic design could go a long way preparing for this -- covers could be
pre-printed and stored for the over night rush and binding for the guts. The
guts could be assembled in Quark or Pagemaker (with attendant illustrations
already in place -- hey it's what I do!) with the likely idea of what space
would be required for stats derived from material already available at WotC and
Eric Noah's (excellent) site -- or from the new writer's guidelines for Dragon
if they're available prior to the show. A dummy list of all the slots to be
filled would have to be ready to insure there aren't any last minute rush
errors.
It's very do-able.
> As a PR stunt, it might be very effective at getting
> some press for a small company. As a way to offset costs, selling a couple
> thousand adventures at $10 a shot would pretty much cover air fare, hotel
> and one of the "entreprenuer" booths.
Are a couple thousand sales likely? I've never been to that show.
I suspect your figures are largely from the possibility of retailers picking up
bulk orders to bring home?
Sounds like the kind of project that would do a lot of good for a smaller
company or a company intending to be a major player in the D20 materials market.
Richard
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