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  8. Looking For Input On Potential New Fantasy Product

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    I "vote" putting the rules in Fantasy Hero Complete, and coming up with a better name, like 'Champions' or 'Danger International'...there are so many, many fantasy rpg's that I think it should be named after and leverage something proprietary to Hero Games, like Valdorian Age (my favorite fantasy setting for from Hero Games).

     

    If the spells and equipment and monsters and sample characters were all built in as power examples to save space, and they were all from a single (proprietary, deep) setting, then you'd save even more space and distinguish the book from others and even build in content that people who already own Champions Complete might want.

     

    Basically, I think to make this work you need to pick a single genre, even a single setting for the book and put a page or two at the back about how the rules can be used for other settings. This would be more in line with Champions Complete because the super hero genre is a lot more narrowly defined then the fantasy genre.

  9. Out-of-print but why?

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    The phenomenal growth of the PDF portion of the RPG business is probably the big story, in terms of business models, of the last decade. There will always be concerns about piracy issues, but it's become clear that any RPG company that wants to stick around has to have a strategy for PDF. The advantage is that nothing has to be truly "out of print" if all other factors (such as outside licenses) are equal. It's even possible to offer older products at discounted rates, and gain revenue from things that formerly would be dead issues.

    It's a matter of preference with several different answers, even within the experience of one person. Desktop and laptop computers were the original "native platform" of the PDF format. You will still want to store your PDFs on storage attached to one even if you read them on other devices. For keeping a lot of data and accessing it quickly the PC is still ahead of the game. the downside is that a PCs monitor will usually default to showing you only part of a page at a time. But scrolling is intuitive if you've been using PCs a lot, and the larger display and easy resizing makes reading a bit easier. If you're going to be carrying your e-books around (such as to use them as a reference when going to a friend's house to play), tablets are the way to go. You can pull them out anywhere, read them on the bus or train or airplane (I strongly dis-recommend reading PDF files on a tablet while driving!), and do all sorts of things. The smaller the tablet the more likely it is you will have to re-size the text and finger-drag it around to make it readable. Still, some PDF files seem optimized for tablets, intentionally or not. The screens on phones are smaller still, to the point that I would never even try to read on one.

     

    I hope this goes commercially available soon! The perfect PDF game book library! http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/21/sony-13-inch-digital-paper-hands-on/

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