Hey everyone,
I just got my RotR AE book yesterday and started reading.
I just stumbled upon Tsuto's Letter marked "Handout 1-1", and I wondered:
How am I supposed to "hand that out"?
a) Am I required to photo-copy those myself or
b) should there be a "handout sheet" delivered with the book?
If a) then this sucks. Making a copy from a little booklet isn't that big a problem (though it wouldn't look that nice), but copying from a large 400 pages book is a pain in the ass.
If b) then I was screwed, because I didn't got any handouts delivered with the book!
Please help, anyone.
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Subscribers also get the PDF version, which is a lot simpler to print from.
To address the subtext of your message, though: Campaigns suceed or fail on the GM's preparation. If photocopying a single page from a book (or searching the forums for a substitute, which exists, or finding another workaround like re-typing the text yourself and printing it) is really too arduous, you might want to evaluate if you have the time and energy to run the campaign. I'm not trying to dissuade you, but really, this is about the most minor amount of work you'll face as GM. Things like Handouts make a big difference to the players' experience, so spend the extra five minutes and make a new one with a fancy font, or handwrite it if you don't have a printer. It will be totally worth it, and you'll open up a whole new world of enjoyment: GM prep is great fun, and can lead to awesome games for both you and your players. Jump in with both feet!
There are low-cost options 3 and 4:
(3) Just write the note on a piece of paper and hand it to them.
(4) Use blank paper to cover the rest of the pages, and let them see the handouts in the book.
However (and I really don't mean to be piling it on, but I feel this is important), Lamplighter is correct -- even though you're buying an AP to save yourself prep time, there's a LOT of work in running a campaign, and providing good props is just yet another way to set the mood. Our Call of Cthulu GM has dozens of 'antiquated' photos and notes that he hands out freely, and it adds to the experience of going insane and dying quite spectacularly.
I happen to have the luxury of having a color scanner at home for my job. I have a color inkjet printer (all of $50 these days), and I made an impulse purchase of a $19.95 laminator at Costco a couple of months ago.
So for Kingmaker I'm literally scanning the handouts, printing them in color on photo paper, and, for the important ones like the charter, laminating them.
Silly? Yes.
But watching the players trying to 'pickpocket' the charter from each other around the table just adds so much to my game that it was well worth the relatively minor costs. (I told them that whoever held the charter 'was the law' and got to make all the decisions, so it's a very popular laminated card...)
And I don't know where you usually purchase your books, but I pre-ordered RotRL through Paizo and was able to download two invaluable PDFs: One containing all the handouts, and one containing all the maps in an 'interactive' mode where you can turn on and off the labels and secret door markings.
Yet I'm not even the 'most overboard' person at the table: One of the players has a 24" wide color printer. The group was assaulting Thistletop last night and he was able to print full-scale maps of the whole thing. It really was orders of magnitude better than drawing with pens on the vinyl map. (And something tells me my group is plotting to get together and buy me an LCD top-down projector for Christmas. They keep chuckling at me every time I pull out the vinyl.)
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Why are there always some people who can't restrain themselves from bringing judgement to a discussion?
I ordered via amazon.com, since I live in germany and the german prices are ridiculous and I am not even sure paizo delivers to europe.
Besides, I am neither stupid nor lazy in preparation, I simply wanted to know if I got screwed somehow (aka missing handouts).
Okay. I didn't. So far so good. Or whatever.
Of course I will get my players those handouts, but I don't own a scanner nor a fancy printer, and I can't copy those at work, at least not in color which would be the way I want it to.
So I'll either get my hands on this handout-pdf and print it, or I'll have no choice but to get to the nearest copy-house, which I would like to avoid.
Simple as that.
Though, I really don't understand why Paizo isn't giving this handout pdf for free. Map Folio, I can understand (sort of), but some simple handouts to flash out the game...
Finally: Thanks to douglasiv for the link.
Consider this thread closed.
Why are there always some people who can't restrain themselves from bringing judgement to a discussion?
I ordered via amazon.com, since I live in germany and the german prices are ridiculous and I am not even sure paizo delivers to europe.
Besides, I am neither stupid nor lazy in preparation, I simply wanted to know if I got screwed somehow (aka missing handouts).
Okay. I didn't. So far so good. Or whatever.
Of course I will get my players those handouts, but I don't own a scanner nor a fancy printer, and I can't copy those at work, at least not in color which would be the way I want it to.
So I'll either get my hands on this handout-pdf and print it, or I'll have no choice but to get to the nearest copy-house, which I would like to avoid.
Simple as that.
Though, I really don't understand why Paizo isn't giving this handout pdf for free. Map Folio, I can understand (sort of), but some simple handouts to flash out the game...
Finally: Thanks to douglasiv for the link.
Consider this thread closed.
Allow me to be the first to apologize, even if you closed the thread.
In the U.S., color printers and cheap scanning shops are on virtually every street corner. On foot from my house it would take under 20 minutes to walk to the nearest copy shop, pay under $5 U.S., and have high-quality color printouts. It's also unusual to find a household without a color printer.
So we ignore cultural differences, put on our blinders, and say, "Lazy", even though I have also complained (in another thread) about buying the book and not getting the PDFs, exactly because it made making the handouts inconvenient for me. And I have a scanner and color printer.
Guilty as charged!