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Okay, so I'm formally GRADUATING from College on June 14th, 2014. With a Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design.
So, here are my strengths related to this market:
-- I CAN WRITE! God, I can write. I can write a lot of things about a lot of things.
-- I CAN DO A LAYOUT! Yeah, well, the last review of Pathways #36 not withstanding (4 stars and not a good layout according to one person on DTRPG). I -can- layout an RPG product.
-- I CAN DO 3D GRAPHICS! But I'm a tad bit limited, plus a lot of you don't like 3D.
Weaknesses:
-- I can draw but I don't have the time to illustrate all of my product. Sorry, everyone. :(
-- I really can't get a Presentations movie ready for Youtube for a Kickstarter, so . . .
I have a choice -- I can either put up Phaeselis for Auction and sell my copyright to the highest bidder;
I can sell the InDesign file to all publishers, giving them all the right to alter, expand, and relayout the text through 2 license aggreements. A man's gotta eat, so I need money to eat and live. When you guys compete, I win.
So, when I sell my first product on here, you the publishers, will be my SECONDARY TARGET AUDIENCE and the players will be my First. When you buy the Phaeselis Player's Guide (when it is up for sale) you will be purchasing:
-- Recompense for my time writing this draft. I started writing the campaign setting years ago, to try it out. I started on this draft on it's own wiki, so I can write on it at my leisure when I have time between classes.
-- The Right to Edit, Relayout, or Change the document; and to expand on it as you see fit for your own particular audience.
-- My Endorsement. This is important. Because someone will put the document on a torrent site. And While they are free to do so, and you can download it off the torrent for free,
-- And of course, you get to keep the copyright for whatever art you put on to it, including your trade dress. But you will have to conform to the 2 licenses I put on. Including any derivatives.
-- Also, you will be paying for whatever Paizo takes as a store cut, and on RPGnow and DTRPG, the cut is about 25% (rounded to the nearest 1/4th of a hundred).
-- My work will hit a wider audience. By Auctioning it off, it can only reach a small audience of those who play Pathfinder -- that's the Psionics players who will do third party. But there are people, and there are a lot of them, who won't buy third party to Paizo. However, packaging it with the two licenses, it can reach potentially everyone who plays Pathfinder (as Paizo themselves can buy a copy of the Phaeselis Player's Guide InDesign file, although, I'm not going to hold my breath).
-- My work won't be owned by one company. So the work has the potential to GROW to substantial, exponential heights ~as long as the work is good!~
I'll put up a pricing hit so you, the Publisher, will know exactly what you are paying for when I'm ready for sale. But suffice it to say, I'm laying it out right now.
I'm not sure what this all means GM Elton. Can you make it clearer? Is this about your kinda Hellenic Psionic campaign setting? There is no link nor information beyond this post...
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I can't put up some information beyond this post since I'm laying out my (sorta) Hellenic Psionic campaign player's guide. :)
I can't lay it out all at once because the rest hasn't been written. -AND- I want to be sure I got the consignment contract filled out and returned to Liz before I make an announcement that my intentions are absolutely clear on selling the InDesign file.
I'm just making an Intention statement here, so everyone knows what I'm doing.
-- I'll be selling an InDesign File on Paizo. And later, on e23 and Drivethru/RPGnow.
-- It will be under the OGL and the Creative Commons licenses. OGL for Pathfinder/d20 Publishers, Creative Commons for everyone else.
-- I won't be auctioning the file and it's Copyright off.
-- If this is successful, I'll follow through with more InDesign files on Paizo.
-- And it's a radical step.
But it's just an intention statement. A statement in Truth. I already talked to Liz about it, and yes, they can sell an InDesign file. Of course they won't do theirs, they have a lot invested in the Copyright of Golarion (I joked about it following me in such a radical move, but I know how much a company has invested in their copyrighted material).
I can't produce a Kickstarter video to do the rest of the balpark. So this is my option. :) It's my way of saying, "I have ideas, I want to profit by them." Auctioning it off isn't an option, though, because I can't live on auctioning off my work. However, I can make a decent living by selling my work. Does that make sense?
After this is done, I can do a definitive edition by making a homerun. But right now, this is all I can do. :)
Ok much clearer, thank you. And good luck with that. :)
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Update: Layout work is progressing, instead of regressing. The work will be finished in time, I know it will. Just added a wealth of new items to the document and it looks like it's going to be 32 pages long. Oh, yes since it's Creative Commons licensed, I just know that Kevin Seimbedia will prove my beliefs about him wrong someday.