beyondthebreach wrote:Sometimes I like to play a little game of guessing which country the winning bidder of an auction will be from.Without a doubt, Italy is my biggest purchaser of D&D (not AD&D) items. Gazetteers, modules, Hollow World, rule sets, Mystara . . . In fact, I sell more D&D to Italy than to the United States. The items seem to be making a mass exodus for Italian soil and it has become even more so in the past year. But there is hardly any Italian interest in AD&D . . . why is that?Planescape usually goes to Germany and I can practically pre-address Warhammer books to the UK & Ireland. I always find it fascinating to observe the Global interest in items . . .
rosenkav wrote:There is an explanation. The fact is that the biggest italian game company - known as Editrice Giochi - has published and translated the D&D boxes in italian, and sold lots of them - so a great deal of people here do know about D&D - rules etc, but have hardly or no interest in the AD&D range (too much effort to adapt them).Apart from a bunch of die-hard FRPs like myself, that is... Warhammer goes to UK because it's a Games Workshop UK-published game, of course... but I have no clues about Planescape and Germany.Maybe Ralph Toth could tell us why better than me.
Badmike wrote:I sell quite a bit of AD&D to the UK, but Italy is coming in a fast second on all gaming items. They also enjoy Robert E. Howard books and TSR paperbacks. The Italian buyers (as are 99% of international buyers) are polite and a pleasure to deal with. Mike B.
beyondthebreach wrote:Without a doubt, Italy is my biggest purchaser of D&D (not AD&D) items. Gazetteers, modules, Hollow World, rule sets, Mystara . . . In fact, I sell more D&D to Italy than to the United States. The items seem to be making a mass exodus for Italian soil and it has become even more so in the past year. But there is hardly any Italian interest in AD&D . . . why is that?
radagast wrote:Sorry for my awful English.
killjoy32 wrote:i think your grasp of english is just fine
radagast wrote:killjoy32 wrote:i think your grasp of english is just fine You're very kind.
radagast wrote:Maybe you're right. But I think you're English is far more natural than mine ... I think in Italian, then I translate. It's wrong, I know, but I can't do better.By the way, thank you very much.
radagast wrote:She's right. I think Finland is too cold, too.By the way, I work in Tuscany: now, in this moment, i'm in Siena downtown. It's beautiful day and, even if I prefer Emilia, my home, I can't really say that Tuscany is not wonderful