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Post by klachowski on Apr 2, 2016 12:18:00 GMT -9
What's everyone's impression/experience with DriveThruRPG/RPGNow? Are there any other alternatives? I'm interested mostly from a publisher standpoint, but a consumer perspective is welcome.
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Apr 2, 2016 13:06:23 GMT -9
What's everyone's impression/experience with DriveThruRPG/RPGNow? Are there any other alternatives? I'm interested mostly from a publisher standpoint, but a consumer perspective is welcome. I'm small beans (www.paperrealms.com). They take their cut, and it's well worth it for me. Their customer service has been top notch. Don't know of alternatives.
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Post by squirmydad on Apr 2, 2016 16:36:22 GMT -9
You have to go through a probation process for publishing your first few products, but it's pretty painless. I've worked with them for years and they've always been very helpful.
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Apr 2, 2016 17:15:59 GMT -9
For what it's worth, I think my probation period was less than a day.
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Post by okumarts on Apr 2, 2016 18:38:33 GMT -9
Customer service has been really great both as a publisher and as a customer. They really earn their cut.
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Post by glennwilliams on Apr 3, 2016 6:00:19 GMT -9
Well worth it. I've never had a problem with them.
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Post by klachowski on Apr 4, 2016 13:42:47 GMT -9
Thanks for the responses all!
Is it easy to replace a file that you are selling that needs to be modified due to a correction and/or other update?
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Apr 4, 2016 15:46:12 GMT -9
Thanks for the responses all! Is it easy to replace a file that you are selling that needs to be modified due to a correction and/or other update? I think I've screwed up every release. It's sometimes confusing to me what the right order of operations is to update files - do you remove the old files first and then add the new files? That's what I usually do, though sometimes I've forgotten and ended up with two files. Can't tell them apart so I remove them both and reads the right one... If you can screw something up, I will. TL;DR the tools make it pretty easy.
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Post by wyvern on Apr 5, 2016 6:52:09 GMT -9
Speaking purely as a customer/consumer, while there are alternatives to the One Book Shelf sites (DriveThru RPG, RPGNow, Wargame Vault, etc.), they don't have anything like the breadth of material, and setting up a separate account every time for other sites to download at most a few items, or worse, with individual publishers, rapidly becomes very tedious, which leads to not purchasing. If you want more advice on how the sites work for small publishers, I'd advise you to check through the relatively new DM's Guild part of OBS, www.dmsguild.com/ . There are huge numbers of small companies, mostly one person enterprises, who have suddenly appeared as if "overnight" with material to support, enhance and enlarge the 5th edition D&D rules, much in the way of hard-copy fanzines of old. A lot of these folks are very new to setting up documents for online downloading, and while it's clear there have been problems - often I think by people just not following the instructions correctly - it's also clear that OBS have provided a lot of help to enable such newcomers to flourish. Some of the documents are into their seventh or eighth incarnations, so it does seem to be fairly straightforward to replace files, certainly.
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Post by Vermin King on Apr 5, 2016 9:05:50 GMT -9
I forget which piece it was, but I ordered something from one of the OBS sites, and within a couple hours of reading here that a revised model was being submitted to OBS, I received an email from OBS that the revised file was available
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Post by aleks on Apr 7, 2016 22:45:11 GMT -9
two thumbs up for OBS sites. www.paizo.com is an alternative, but I never tried it. Although it is a house organ in many ways, focused on Pathfinder related product, there are many products from other publisher. By example, you can find the old Worldworksgames product... Cons... less choices, usually more pricey than OBS.
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