Re: [HOE] Epitaph Opinions...

[Kirt Dankmyer <xiombarg@earthlink.net>]

  > I'd have to say after reading all the pros & cons about the new Epitaph
> format for new stuff that it is probably for the better.  I remember when
> Traveller had a magazine come out called Journal of the Travellers' Aid
> Society or some such--the Epitaph is essentially the same thing.  Hmmm,
> Shane, would it be cheaper to publish the Epitaph in a magazine format
> rather than a soft covered book format?  Kind of make it a "Dragon" magazine
> devoted to DL et. al.  Give you the leeway to publish those extras that
> couldn't make its own book, but keep the cost down so that more folks would
> be more inclined to buy it.

It's not the same thing. Traveller was a single setting, with a single time 
frame. This is very different from multiple settings spread over multiple 
times. Since I don't rund Deadlands, at *most* 50% of the material in the 
Epitaph is going to be useful to me. While in the typical HOE sourcebook, 
90% of the material is useful to me.
	-Loki