PoD proof on the house! Can’t figure out why they moved the DW logo, and it’s trimmed a bit too close on the bottom edge, but otherwise it looks pretty good.
Johnstone Metzger, have you encountered trim issues in the past? I’m wondering if it’s just luck of the draw on a copy-by-copy basis.
Trim issues are pretty common, IME. I just try to account for it with extra white space so it won’t look super-off if they mis-cut it.
Where was it made? (RPGNow?)
Luck of the draw. Is that staplebound from Lulu? Where is the DW logo supposed to be?
Michael Prescott, printed via DTRPG/RPGNow.
Johnstone Metzger, the cover is actually placed and trimmed properly, but for some reason that bit of text and DW logo in the lower right are like 1/4″ lower than they were in the original file. The skull door at the left lower edge is exactly where it should be. Really weird.
Yeah that’s weird. Did you double check the file(s) again? (I dunno what your method for creating DriveThru covers is, after all).
I was literally just Googling for a print on demand version ! Any ETA?
Any chance of doing this on Lulu instead of DTRPG? The quality of the books they put out is leagues better. Plus, sales!
Phillip Wessels, I think by the end of February. Need to correct the cover issue and coordinate a couple of other things.
Dave Bendit, I hear you on the quality issue, but all of our digital stuff goes through DTRPG, so in order to keep my life simple that’s what I’m doing.
Johnstone Metzger, thanks for reminding me to double-check the originals — I thought I hadn’t messed with the file, but the logo had in fact been scooched down 1/4″. New proof in the works.
Jason Lutes Is there any way to preorder Print+PDF and get the PDF in the meantime? 😮
Phillip Wessels, there is no way to pre-order per se, but I plan to offer everyone who owns the PDF via DTRPG a discount on the print version when it goes live, such that you would only need to pay the difference (I think $2 plus shipping, but DTRPG is down right now, so I can’t double-check). You’ll have to trust me on that, but I say if you want the PDF now go ahead and buy it.
I’ll take the bait!! Thanks!
Phillip Wessels, DTRPG is back up today and I just checked to make sure I can do what I had been planning. It looks like it’s pretty easy to email everyone who ordered the PDF version a link to a discount on the print version, so everything looks good.
Currently awaiting the corrected proof, hoping to release the PoD version by March 1.
Johnstone Metzger, thanks for nudging me to re-check the file — somehow I had knocked the logo out of place.
Yeah, errors can creep in at every stage of production. They’re pernicious that way. I have learned this just about every hard way.
Does this mean I can finally buy a print copy of Perilous Wilds?
Yochai Gal, it will mean that soon (I hope). I’m currently getting all of my ducks in a row.
Jason Lutes Any plans to update PW with newer generators/content from FotF 2e? Or are they too specifically tuned for FotF?
David Perry , no plans to update. The big changes are creature and monster generation, which are intended to address some of the specific ways in which Freebooters is different from DW (HP scaling and loot-as-goal).