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1) Just make more. | 37 | 22.56% | |
2) .pdf with POD support | 43 | 26.22% | |
2a) Seperate line. | 10 | 6.10% | |
2b) Integrate into the DF line | 67 | 40.85% | |
2c) Finish whats available, and end further production of new material. | 1 | 0.61% | |
3) Simply end all further production, and place resources in other projects. | 6 | 3.66% | |
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12-11-2018, 02:35 PM | #231 |
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Re: The Future of the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game?
Yeah, in the previous incarnation of the same store they had oodles of products and parking both
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12-19-2018, 03:47 PM | #232 | |
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12-19-2018, 05:18 PM | #233 | |
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"Picture it this way," Slavicsek says, "it's raining money outside and you want to catch as much of it as you can. You can either make a really big bucket or waste your time and attention by creating a lot really small buckets -- either way, you're never going to make more rain." In plain English, TSR, by putting out a lot of product lines instead of supporting the main Dungeons & Dragons line, fragmented the marketplace. The same audience was giving the same amount of money to TSR every year, which had taken on the additional financial burden of creating, producing, and supporting hundreds of products. It needed to grow the marketplace, and these brand extensions weren't doing that. --- I have PDFs of Dragon Magazine (from the DVD they put out) and when you look at the RPGs and realize how many that were advertised even for their time were very nitch. There was even an RPG that promised something like GURPS (ie play in any setting) called Anywhen Universal RP (by K Society)...which as far as I can tell never actually saw the light of day. Last edited by maximara; 12-20-2018 at 05:03 AM. |
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12-19-2018, 05:22 PM | #234 | |
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IMHO a plug in for Tabletop Simulator might have helped. Oh wait somebody already did that Last edited by maximara; 12-19-2018 at 05:33 PM. |
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12-19-2018, 07:48 PM | #235 |
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Re: The Future of the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game?
Based on the Report to the Stakeholders, I vote "They underestimated the development stage costs." Phil explicitly mentioned management hours being higher than planned.
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12-20-2018, 06:20 AM | #236 | |
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I'll take my share of the blame: From 1995 to present (in fact, I really started in late 1994, so call it 24 years), I've worked on precisely one boxed set, and the Dungeon Fantasy RPG was it. I'm positive I made some bad calls on what should go in the box, especially how many books; on how thick box-sized books could get and still fit in the box; on how much content would fit in one box-sized book; and on the amount of work required to do the non-game-design parts, such as layout, art, and print-buying (all of which I've worked on zero times). My role played out largely throughout February-August 2016. The parts between August 2016 and November 2017 had very little to do with me, so I'm not going to talk about those. I don't doubt they had at least as great an effect on costs – maybe more – but (1) I don't have the numbers to prove that, and (2) I have no desire to place blame on others, only to take my share of it. I will say that there were "surprises" we couldn't have anticipated. The factors leading up to the changes discussed here ("reducing staff, cutting down overhead expenses, and limiting our presence at conventions") were many and complex, and not the fault of any one product line or Kickstarter. Nor were they they entirely a result of staff misjudging costs or the market, or of customers not buying enough copies. As Phil said in the linked Illuminator, these are "trying times."
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12-20-2018, 10:44 AM | #237 | |
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Millions? Really? Yes. I want to see any data that supports this claim.
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12-20-2018, 11:02 AM | #238 | |
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I've seen the TTRPG market pegged at varying between $25-40M total, including Kickstarter, on any given year. D&D5e seems to have roughly 40-60% of this market. That means on the low end, $10M in D&D stuff, on the high end, $25M. D&D books retail for $50; that means 200,000 to 500,000 book-equivalents per year. If half of that is the player's handbook, the one book everyone needs, we're talking the most popular single RPG book on the market is 100,000 to 250,000 copies per year. Now, that's a BLOODY TON of books. But it's a near-lock that it's in a class by itself. I should note that if any substantial part of the "D&D revenue" is a bunch of money in "not-books," then that brings the upper bound of what success looks like down quite a bit. So that's likely a truly optimistic number.
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12-20-2018, 03:45 PM | #239 |
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Re: The Future of the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game?
Perceptions of how many gamers there are ("Millions!"), how many dollars they spend ("Hundreds of millions!"), how many copies of gaming products publishers sell ("Hundreds of thousands!"), and how much game designers earn ("Ferraris! Huge houses with swimming pools!") have always been inflated. It's sobering when you learn that – D&D aside – a game with 1,000 fans is incredibly popular, a gamer who can afford more than $100 of gaming stuff in a year is a fantastically big spender, a game that sells hundreds of copies is doing well (and one in the thousands is doing astonishingly well), and that most game designers earn below the national median, and many live in smallish apartments and could do better on minimum wage. Games hobbyists confine reality-checking to their games, not to their hobby.
At its pinnacle, during its golden age, GURPS had perhaps 10,000 fans, most picked up 5-6 books a year, 5,000 copies was a huge print run, and at least my pay was below the national median (or even the median for editors). These days, I'd say "a few thousand fans," "a couple of cheap PDFs a year," "we haven't sold even 1,000 of anything printed in recent memory," and my pay is below the national median/median for editors by a greater margin. I'm talking about pen-and-paper RPGs here, and more specifically GURPS. The numbers are better for D&D and its spinoffs, and orders of magnitude better for digital games. I personally know people semi-retired in their 40s after work on the digital side. I'm 51 and I won't be retiring.
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12-20-2018, 07:08 PM | #240 |
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Well, if 'games' includes computer games maybe, but certainly not for tabletop or board games.
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