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Originally Posted by Anaraxes
Wow. That's a huge leap in one update. Behold the power of thresholds.
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Some of the new information, such as the super-duper-outstanding quote from my printer, only arrived on my desk this morning. It also didn't make a lot of sense to make promises of cards, hexes, or tortellini casserole when the base product wasn't underpinned.
As I've said elsewhere, I know what happend: I recorded the POD pricing formula for DriveThru (something like $1.61 + 0.0202 per page, minimum 18 pages) but did NOT multiply it by four to capture that each book is printed separately. At the same time the quote has a fairly steep cost of setup (offset always does) but a MUCH more friendly unit cost (offset always does). Additionally, it seems the setup cost is discounted heavily by printing four books at once.
So boom. Offset's break-even point suddenly shifted LOWER than the current number of physical 4-book orders already placed. Not only will be adventures be better quality, they're more economical to make as well . . . which allows me to confidently offer them up to retailers for distribution.
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The physical pieces (tokens, megahexes, etc) add a lot of value in my mind. I like books for their own sake as much as many, but the product in adventures (or core rules) is information. Getting that cheaper is good; getting it more accessible, as with searchable PDFs, is also good. But if you're playing FTF, then the game pieces have to have physicality, and so they're a reason to buy a physical product.
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Thanks for that thorough explanation. It rings true.
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(Which I suppose raises a question: does anyone release digital product like the image files for the tokens, so that you can convert them to VTT tokens and the like? Some PDFs you can take apart to get the image files of NPCs and so on -- or often just screenshot them -- but it seems there's a little corner open there.)
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I can say that the last page of each of the four adventures is going to be a black and white version of the color tokens. You have, though, given me an interesting thought on which I will follow up.