Dr. Silkmelon Goes On A Shopping Spree

…mostly, shopping for body parts

A Question For You, Gentle Readers

So, assuming you were going to buy a roleplaying game product in the popular PDF format…say, something priced at $10.00 or less and running 20 pages or less…and it is a SYSTEM FREE, NO RULES type of product…what sort of product would interest you? Feel free to be genre specific.

This question is aimed at all of you, from Industry Pros to Casual Gamers.

3 thoughts on “Dr. Silkmelon Goes On A Shopping Spree

  1. I don’t have any money, much less money for gaming, but if I did, I’d pay for settings, characters and stories/plots. You could make suggestions as to which games they’d be best suited for (“This medieval adventure could be played in Pendragon, D&D, GURPS Fantasy, Ars Magica,” etc.), character levels (“This character should be considered high level; his assistants are basic henchmen with minimal defensive skills,” etc.), plot sequence and asides (“While journeying to the castle, you could throw in an encounter with a thieving jewel merchant, a questing knight, a noblewoman disguised as a hag,” etc.), things like that.

  2. I’ll second Elissa on settings, characters and stories or plot seeds. Examples of role-playing products in that vein which I bought and loved include the Spherewalker’s Guide (Everway), the Pirate’s Guide to Freeport, Mythic Europe (Ars Magica), 100 Sci-Fi Adventure Seeds, etc. That doesn’t even count all the non-gaming stuff I’ve bought as sources of inspiration.
    I’m also a fan of published columns like Ken Hite’s “Suppressed Transmission”, Chad Underkoffler’s “Campaign in a Box”, and Dan Bayn’s “Sanctum” and “Wushu Skidoo”.
    I also love GM and play advice, such as that published by Robin Laws, Ken Hite, John Wick, and Graham Walmsley.

  3. To be honest, if it were 20 pages or less, I wouldn’t pay more than a couple of bucks for a PDF, no matter who wrote it or what the topic was.
    ::B::

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