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Anyone else ever purchase a dropcard RPG product?

Started by RunningLaser, August 31, 2013, 12:39:24 PM

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RunningLaser

August 31, 2013, 12:39:24 PM
Couple of weeks ago I purchased the Game Master's Dropcard Resource for Metal, Magic and Lore thinking that it was a cd containing the PDFs.  When it was delivered, I was surprised to see that it literally was a credit card sized piece of plastic (like the gift cards you can get at stores) complete with the game's graphics and with directions and a code to download the material online.  Came across as a good way to have at least the physical representation of a product in a store with minimal amount of footprint.

Just wanted to see if anyone else was familiar with it and what you thought of it.

MoonHunter

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September 11, 2013, 04:40:05 PM
This is an interesting idea.  I had never seen it for RPGs or Games before, but it makes sense.  

Would it be on racks on the counter?  Then with your little graphics explaining the product with the cards there?

Would they do the Printed 9x12 Envelopes with the cards inside?  

Glue them into your books for bit and mortar?  

Send them as additional products to be given or sold when customers buy the regular product?
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September 11, 2013, 05:01:54 PM
Quote from: RunningLaser;687295Came across as a good way to have at least the physical representation of a product in a store with minimal amount of footprint.

I am not convinced that "minimal amount of footprint" is a good idea.

Personally I very much like smaller, digest-sized (Traveller LBB) or TPB-sized (Hellboy RPG) RPG books. But from my own shop I know that those tend to turn invisible among regular sized, thick, hardcover books.

As a shop owner I preferred big books.
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September 11, 2013, 05:08:29 PM
So these are the equivelant of any of the "download codes" / digital store service cards, right? Like, the cards you can buy that have a code written on them for a 3DS game, or whatever?

In which case, yeah, I've bought that sort of thing before, but for an RPG I'd want the actual book; nothing else would really do, and given the thin profit margins, it's not really much of a saving for the seller. The few times I've bought bits ad mortar stuff in the real world, the store asked me for an email address they could send a link to, with access to the book.
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thedungeondelver

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September 11, 2013, 05:38:39 PM
That'd be fine for modules but not (IMO) for supplements and/or core rules.

(In fact I think it'd be amazing for modules.)
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