Thinking over what I'd really like for Christmas--what would really make the new year for me I thought...PATHFINDER CALENDAR!
There's really no art I've seen so far that I wouldn't like to see on a monthly spread. Plus it could have product release info listed by day as well as birthdays of the Paizo staff and other occasions worthy of celebration.
Just a thought...but something I would really love to see!
Oooh... a Pathfinder calendar with Wayne Reynolds art would rock my world. 8)
Of course, the Paizo guys are probably like, "Okay, dudes... calm down.. we can only put out so many freakin' products.." heh
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Wayne is doing covers for the first twelve Pathfinders, so something like this will be possible... in about a year's time.
Then in about a year's time I will be drooling to purchase it. Though that means I'll likely be deployed again, so it will go up on my wall in Iraq or Afganistan instead of back home... but it will be a way to take some home with me.
Sweet.
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Wayne is doing covers for the first twelve Pathfinders, so something like this will be possible... in about a year's time.Then in about a year's time I will be drooling to purchase it. Though that means I'll likely be deployed again, so it will go up on my wall in Iraq or Afganistan instead of back home... but it will be a way to take some home with me.
Sweet.
Echoing the King, I wish I had something like that on the wall of my CHU, too.
Though, am I the only one whose first thought, when seeing the name of this thread, was "Pathfinder Swimsuit Calendar"...?
Just make the art available as posters or prints through the normal shop - no need for a calendar 'per se'. Makes publishing them so much easier - it could even be done in installments.
And yes, the WAR covers for the first AP are really awesome (especially number #3 !) but I wouldn't need all of them, just one or two. Only so much wall space, you know ?
As for the interior art..... ahem, that of "the Skinsaw Murders" was appropriately freaky (and only appropriate in that particularcontext ) , but I definitely wouldn't spend a single cent, if a piece of that appeared in a calendar.... and me having to stare at it for full month.
'nuff said
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A calendar might be a good idea. I know they did prints of the WAR Age of Worms cover and, um, they didn't sell well at all (well, I know my wife would be very unken on having pictures of giant green worms on the wall on a permanent basis). A calendar, on the other hand, has utility, is smaller, and is disposable (so another one can be created each year for the Christmas market). This might be the best way to sell Pathfinder artwork to the masses.
Yeah, totally. I don't know if I'd buy a full sized art print--but a calendar would be really useful. I was looking through the mall calendar store here the other day and just NOTHIN' got me that excited. There were things I liked, but just not a thing I wanted to hang up all year. I don't really need all cover art either. Some of the other pictures from in the books could be nice too. I want to echo Aubrey's thing about the once-a-year nature of the thing--and mention too that it'd be a nice intro for people who don't know about Pathfinder, a nice conversation starter for our game group buddies:
"Oh yeah, you remember I was telling you about Pathfinder. Yeah, that's what the art looks like--EVERY MONTH!"
Heh.
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Calendars are a tough category to succeed with. Realistically, you only get about a month and a half in which people actually buy it, and then the value plummets. So retailers and distributors order cautiously, which means that we'd have to print conservatively, and conservative print runs are expensive print runs.
Anybody out there know of any good-quality print-on-demand calendar specialists?
Calendars are a tough category to succeed with. Realistically, you only get about a month and a half in which people actually buy it, and then the value plummets. So retailers and distributors order cautiously, which means that we'd have to print conservatively, and conservative print runs are expensive print runs.
Anybody out there know of any good-quality print-on-demand calendar specialists?
Doesn't Cafe Press specialize in stuff like that?
(I want to see a Seoni swimsuit calendar...)
Bump :)
hmmmm... suggestion, do a 2009 Pathinder Calendar - as a free PDF. Let folks print them off & either hang as single pages, or find a way to bind them themselves as a full year calendar to hang up (or go to Kinkos & get them to do it nifty). That'll give Paizo a baseline on at least the potential interest in a printed calendar for 2010 so you can decide if the hassle is worth it for a hard copy.
Just a thought.
The Women of House Thrune 2009 Chain Mail Bikini CalendarFixed that for you. :-)
Corrected delabarre's misspelling.
On a totally unrelated note, I find the PDF aspect interesting. However, I would be interested in printing at Kinko's etc. Can you provide us with something that makes this easy.
I only ask because I used to run a PBM campaign and I had to update maps, so the owner of the game wrote a letter that allowed us to print updated maps and I still had to go to managers of Kinko's and Alphagraphics who didn't understand that copyright owners are given the ability to allow others to reproduce their artwork. This was over a decade ago and Kinko's may have figured this out.