[OSRIC] OSRIC core rules went silver on RPGnow

jgbrowning · Post by **jgbrowning** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:34 am

PapersAndPaychecks wrote:Dunno; it's relative to the competition rather than absolute, I think.

It's actually absolute.

Copper: 51-100
Silver: 101-250
Electrum: 251-500
Gold: 500-1000
Platinum: 1000+

joe b.

PapersAndPaychecks · Post by **PapersAndPaychecks** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:44 am

Cripes, that's pathetically small amounts. The number of OSRIC downloads distributed from the K&K web address would make us at least triple-platinum already.

jgbrowning · Post by **jgbrowning** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:58 am

PapersAndPaychecks wrote:Cripes, that's pathetically small amounts. The number of OSRIC downloads distributed from the K&K web address would make us at least triple-platinum already.

Welcome to the rich and lucrative world of PDF publishing!

There are only 10 rpg PDFs (for sale, not free ones) that have gone platinum.

joe b.

PapersAndPaychecks · Post by **PapersAndPaychecks** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:03 am

*grins*

PDFs seem to really rock as ways to get your name about, but I'm less than overwhelmed by the profit potential.

Mythmere · Post by **Mythmere** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:31 am

PapersAndPaychecks wrote:Cripes, that's pathetically small amounts. The number of OSRIC downloads distributed from the K&K web address would make us at least triple-platinum already.

Well, it's gone electrum now - so it's in the top 200 downloads of all time at RPGnow. How many days did that take?

EDIT: just to shamelessly help it along, I not only downloaded it myself but changed the link in the sticky thread to RPGnow. What a whore.

Now, everyone get to buying Pod-Caverns, so that it at LEAST hits copper.

PapersAndPaychecks · Post by **PapersAndPaychecks** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:46 am

Mythmere wrote:Well, it's gone electrum now - so it's in the top 200 downloads of all time at RPGnow. How many days did that take?

22 days.

Mind you, it's a complete system for free, which isn't exactly a difficult sale to make.

Mythmere · Post by **Mythmere** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:52 am

PapersAndPaychecks wrote:Mind you, it's a complete system for free, which isn't exactly a difficult sale to make.

Is the word "buzz-kill" found in the British parlance, or is it strictly an American usage?

stranger · Post by **stranger** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:56 am

Add to that the 4000+ on the OSRIC site and the fact that the site has had 75 to 100 downloads a day for the last week or so and things look good.

PapersAndPaychecks · Post by **PapersAndPaychecks** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:05 am

Mythmere wrote:Is the word "buzz-kill" found in the British parlance, or is it strictly an American usage?

Means I pissed on your bonfire?

I didn't mean to do that -- but I certainly intended to challenge the idea that OSRIC is spreading fast enough. We can do better than this.

I think the OSRIC Companion and the printed versions will give it a big boost, because then we're no longer relying on one free .pdf to build the name.