bbarsh wrote:Bottom line is that expensive art requires a high sales volume relative to your print run.
TheHistorian wrote:bbarsh wrote:Bottom line is that expensive art requires a high sales volume relative to your print run.Presumably that has always been true, explaining the art of so many non-TSR products over the years...
mbassoc2003 wrote:That's also where FGG win big points by using the same piece of cover art for all their Slumbering Tsar products. Good business sense.So, another question might be... Can a staggeringly good piece of cover art sell a mediocre product?
mbassoc2003 wrote:That's also where FGG win big points by using the same piece of cover art for all their Slumbering Tsar products.
FormCritic wrote:I have a project in mind. I need advice about a couple of things:1) Where to look for help with art. How much should this cost? Is my own amateur art better than paying for a professinal...from an old-school sentimental viewpoint?2) Where do I look for a printer? What are the pitfalls?3) So, if I print 100 copies, and do some small advertising...how many copies will I have left after Acaeum guys buy them to be nice to me?
mbassoc2003 wrote:That's also where FGG win big points by using the same piece of cover art for all their Slumbering Tsar products. Good business sense.
mbassoc2003 wrote:Can a staggeringly good piece of cover art sell a mediocre product?
Nogrod wrote:How much do you guys think a known (amongst OSR nerds) artist contributes to sales or at least readers of a finished product?
Kingofpain89 wrote:Lets put it this way. Get Pete Mullen, Rowena Aitken, Nathan Nada, Peter Szmer or Mark Allen to do the cover or interior artwork and I'll buy it. Get Larry Elmore, Erol Otus, Jeff Easley, Fred Fields or Paul Jaquays to do it and I'll buy two. :D Oh, and if you cant draw maps you might consider hiring a cartographer. Some of the stuff Dyson Logos and Robert Conley does is really nice.
Nogrod wrote:Is $500-$1200 dollars even in the ballpark for the artists you have listed (the first list not the second I don't know what Erol Otus charges, but I am sure I can't afford it) for a cover + interior illustrations? What would you think a cartographer would cost, my module is not map heavy but maps make the game for me most times. I can use Campaign Cartographer, but I am not especially talented with finished product dungeon maps.
Nogrod wrote:Also I would love it if anyone who creates home brew print adventures here would reply (or PM me), I buy a lot of them and am always on the lookout for good stuff.
Thork N Hammer wrote: Uh, well, you can go to my store and download some freebies. (See link in my sig)
mbassoc2003 wrote:3. Black Blade seems to be in a hiatus. Why? Is there a lack of material being offered in the market for publishers to publish, or is there a lack of time and resource vs. perceived return for putting in the time and effort? I know there were discussions of reprints of Starstome, Castle of the Mad Archmage and the Seren Ironhand bookend modules. It appears as though there is an issue of a credible return for putting in the time and effort needed to take the material and create a publishable product from it.