Wednesday 22 May 2019

Compendium Offset Print Run

The Trilemma Adventures Compendium will now be manufactured by an offset print run.



Ever since I conceived of this book, I've been on a knife's edge about how to get it printed. I explored both options carefully. Ultimately, I decided to follow Kevin Crawford's advice: if you're a one-person RPG writer, you win by writing, not by trying to be a publisher, wrestling with distribution and inventory management with no economy of scale.

For that reason I chose DriveThruRPG as my fulfilment option. As a Canadian with most buyers of my buyers in the US, trying to figure out cross-border (and international!) distribution for 200 copies of my book made no sense.

DTRPG makes a solid book (especially in the premium colour version that I've selected), and distribution is one-step easy. Obvious.

What's Changed?

With the incredible amount of support I've received from backers, however, things look very different now. We hit 200 hardcover copies on the first day! If things stay on track, it could easily be 800 by the time we're done. This completely changes the situation.

It means that an offset print run is now a completely practical approach for delivering this book, and it will be a better book for it.

Eight days remain!

2 comments:

  1. Yaaaas! I've been waiting on the fence hoping this would happen. Heading there to back now! :D

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  2. That's the best way to do it! And that's great advice (win by writings)

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