You could really do with a way of printing it in the UK or the US if you want to capture those audiences.
Rogue Trader is in the local games shop for £39.95. From the look of it it's also about 400 pages, but it's in colour and it's a nicely embossed hardback book. A £45 black and white paperback, especially if the cover tends to curl up like a swiss roll as my preview one does, won't pull in the newbies. And that's what we all really want
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Jeff <richaje_at_Hi13DxLnRkYS9dWQ3iWNuVxRKrQf7mAAx_wTOsr9Oim4OMBBpS0PBI925FIDnaXauLQ5mn12q3An.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
> > I now find out that it is prohibitively expensive - with p&p at least
> ukp50 (us$83). If I, as a life long fan baulk at the price, do you really
> think any newbies are going to be interested?
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> First, you can buy the book at Dragonmeet for 50 Euros. No shipping, no
> handling. Or you can wait until the book shows up at Leisure Games or
> another game store.
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> Second, the book is BIG. 50 Euros is perfectly reasonable for a book of
> this size (Rogue Trader was going for 65 Euros at the Essen Spiel - I do go
> to the trade fairs to see how other companies do their pricing). This book
> contains more pure, refined Gloranthan gold than old the books over the last
> ten years combined. And that is not even counting the art and the maps.
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> Put it this way - if we wanted to be greedy bastards and divide this
> material into four books, we probably could have sold it for 100 Euros
> collectively (which is what many other game companies would happily do). We
> thought it better to have one BIG book rather than four smaller books. With
> just Sartar and the HeroQuest Core Rules you have everything you need to run
> an epic campaign set in Dragon Pass.
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> Third, people are preordering it fast. I will try to have a few extra books
> for sale, but at this rate the safest way to guarantee you get a copy at
> Tentacles is to preorder.
>
> Jeff
> Moon Design LLC
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