[UA] UA in PDF format?

[Greg Stolze]

PDF and the Internet change the dynamics of the RPG field a LOT.  In 
Olden Times, to find out about exciting new products you had to either 
(1) subscribe to a gamer magazine like Dragon or SHADIS or (2) go to 
the FLGS and receive the wisdom of the grognard behind the counter.  
Now, you just log on and click.  Similarly, back in the dark ages to 
BUY a game book you had to either (1) buy it from a catalogue that you 
got because you were a magazine subscriber, (2) get it at a convention 
or (3) go to that FLGS again.  Now?  Click click click.

See what's getting cut out of the loop?  Mr. Grognard's Olde Tyme 
Dungeon and Game Shoppe.

With my next game, REIGN, I'm doing the main rule book as a Lulu 
Print-On-Demand.  If it seems worth doing, I'll flog it at conventions, 
maybe try to get some kind of distribution deal going... but all the 
supplements are going to be PDFs, and they'll all be free in perpetuity 
once they're paid for via the Ransom Method.  Don't like PDFs?  Once 
there are enough supplements to justify it, I'll put 'em all into a 
Lulu compendium and sell it as a POD hard copy.  (What's sweet for me 
is that when/if people buy that hard copy, it'll be like getting paid 
twice for the same writing!)

-G.