I've created a scan of the counters page and added it to the product bundle. The map is an A3 hexagonal grid. I could scan that quarter by quarter but not sure how good that would end up. Open to suggestions here.
The problem with anything on A3/11x17 paper is as it has always been, it's too big for its parent publication. I know basically nothing about print-on-demand, but since the vast majority of products printed are A4/8.5x11, and even the vast majority of
pages in a product that is an exception to that are A4/8.5x11, I'm going to assume there's no way to make it practical/cost competitive for the point of printing to be flexible enough to use (and fold in
after printing) a single A3 sheet
only when needed in a series of several thousand A4 sheets.
However, the only reason such sheets were ever attached to printed books was to make sure the person who gets it is
the guy who bought that particular book.I don't know how Kinko's and other such print shops are doing these days, but if they're surviving well enough to justify this you might be able to make the map an attached graphics file
that also has an attached deal with one of the major print companies like Kinko's. Buy the .pdf, you get the file. Take the file to Kinko's, they print it to A3. And
they don't crease it into 4ths unless you ask them to.That doesn't sound like a great answer, even to me, but all the other answers I can spot are even worse, except for possibly just leaving it out entirely. Throw in a "
X amount off" coupon on a battlemat, maybe.
Not if they're the only offering.
Actually, yes. Sorry to break this to you, but printed books are fast going the way of the dinosaur. It's too much easier and cheaper to get a product to a customer in electronic form than print form,
anyone selling text or graphics who does not bow to that reality is
going to go under,
period. Offering electronic only and not print
may cost you market share (likely in RPGs), but offering print only
and not electronic is probably writing your business' death warrant anymore. Companies that don't like either of those choices are going to have to find ways to efficiently deal with printing problems/costs
as small scale niche marketing to the
very occasional customer who really needs it.
Unless you prefer ICE going into bankruptcy
again, they and we probably don't have any other choices.
At least, that's the guesses of someone who doesn't have the connections/experience in either publishing or printing to know for certain.
