Thread: Guide to Glorantha update

Hello all,

We've just posted a fair bit of info on the forthcoming Guide to Glorantha
project:

Kickstart the Guide to Glorantha | Moon Design Publications

Text is finished and edited, art is 98% done, and maps are done. Layout begins
very shortly.

So when do you start the Kickstart?

OMG this book looks excellent! I would pay almost anything for a large hardcover comprehensive Glorantha sourcebook like this, especially with good quality maps and internal artwork. You can certainly count me in for this kick start project!

We are 99% ready, and want to launch the kickstarter this weekend.

It appears the Kickstarter campaign is now live.

The Guide to Glorantha by Rick Meints — Kickstarter

Originally Posted by Galahad de Corbenic

It appears the Kickstarter campaign is now live.

The Guide to Glorantha by Rick Meints — Kickstarter

And very pricey to boot!
Charging for PDFs on top of the price of the book is so dated.
Small companies include the PDF when you buy the book.

I can see the use of Kickstater to get funding but there is no incentive here at all. I might as well buy the book for $80.00 when it finally gets to a FLAGs.

Originally Posted by Darran

And very pricey to boot!
I can see the use of Kickstater to get funding but there is no incentive here at all. I might as well buy the book for $80.00 when it finally gets to a FLAGs.

We are rapidly closing in on the stretch goal of 160K (143K as of this morning). If that goal gets reached everyone paying for the printed Guide will be getting a second printed book for free (they currently get a PDF of the stretch goal material for free). The Main Guide becomes an integrated two-volume set.

The Guide (and a few other items) will be sold after the KS is over, at least through the Moon Design website. The expected retail price for the Guide after this KS is over will be somewhere between $100 and $125, not $80. Thus, getting the Guide for $80 in your FLGS is highly unlikely, unless they really undercut retail and they decide to stock the books. The price in the Kickstarter is a "get in early" price, which is lower than the eventual retail price.

I'll let all of you decide whether that is an incentive to participate in our Kickstarter.

Originally Posted by rmeints

The expected retail price for the Guide after this KS is over will be somewhere between $100 and $125, not $80.

If I saw a two volume set of Hardcover 10x12 coffee table books with dust jackets, with hundreds and hundreds of full color pages, I wouldn't be surprised by a $100+ price rage.

I'm not surprised, given the size it's grown to (and still growing?). I would have preferred if it was split into smaller gazetteers so that I could pick and choose the parts that interested me (I'm really only looking at the "new" areas, I overdosed on Sartar/Prax long ago).

I may be alone in that.