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by Bifford [White Hare Games] (Sam)

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On PWYW
by [username=Bifford]Bifford[/username]

I put an item out for sale last week as a PWYW (Pay What You Want) item. I made sure to explicitly say "you don't have to pay for this, but you can if you want to". I've made 70+ free sales and a handful of paid sales of various amounts.

I am super grateful to those people who paid. What I am curious about is whether they are people who "bought" the item for free, then re-bought it once they'd read it and decided it was worth shilling out some money over. I've had no ratings or reviews yet, so this is an unknown quantity.

I have always had mixed feelings about PWYW, both from a user perspective and a creator/publisher one. On the one hand a fixed price tells viewers what you think your work is worth (based on page count to price) and it will either sell at that price, or it won't. On the other hand the buyer setting a price may well speak louder, because it tells you how much your readers think the work is worth. But are either amounts correct? I might make more sales by putting the price up or down. Buyers might pay less because they know they can justify it - "I am paying for it; just not much".

It's an interesting thing to think on. What's your thoughts on PWYW?


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by Rachel Carpenter

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More work on Nine Tails: A Solitaire Game and Eighteen Eggs today.

Hopefully, I'll be able to show you some of my progress tomorrow.

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by Pete aka The Masked Minstrel

I have recently been on a bit of a Dust by Paolo Parente binge.
Back in 2010 when the game was first released by FFG, I bought into it and was very impressed with the miniatures and the game, though simple but I found really fun.

I sold my collection in 2019 unwisely because I needed some quick cash and I wanted to buy a 3D printer, and my collection had been collecting dust for years, no pun intended.
But that printer I bought sucked and caused no end of heartaches, despite printing two Warhammer 40K scale Titans, I still found myself pining and missing my Dust collection.

Konflict '47 caught my eye, after I fell in love with the Bolt Action game, but honestly while I do love the rules and especially the Dice Draw Activation system, I don't really care for Warlord Games' miniatures.
No, Dust is my preferred vision for Weird War 2.

So I put out some feelers locally to see if anyone had Dust minis collecting dust, and I scored bigtime!
My first trade, cost me $0 (just some Warhammer that I wasn't using) and I scored a lot of stuff, not in the least a nearly full Premium Painted SSU force and Premium Painted Mercs


Second trade, cost me $0 (just traded my Conan the boardgame collection) Lots of mint stuff in box.


And a little eBaying, The Blutkreuz Character pack is a Premium Painted one, which was a nice surprise!


And another purchase of someone's collection that I didn't take photos of which set me up with nearly everything I want, just some small individual things I am after now, like extra squads of Red Devil's and Devil's Own KillTeam Commandos etc.

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So I found myself wanting to expand into more Weird War 2 by looking into games like Tannhauser and Incursion, but honestly, while I was looking at them, I was always wishing they were part of the Dust world.
So one day, I get a crazy notion into my head and broke out my tiles for Warhammer Quest and set up some Dust heroes and Axis enemies.


And looking at that scene, I figured out to myself that 'Hey, this could work!'

I also received this just yesterday, which will be very useful too.


The RPG uses the newer style Dust Dice with Faction Symbols, Hits, and Defence sides, which I wasn't expecting but I have no issue with that.
After all, all dice rolls use a basic 5+ to succeed, which becomes a 3+ with benefits and advantages to your roll - easy enough to do with v1 Dust Dice.
I do have the new sets of Dice in Allies, Axis, and SSU flavors, but haven't opened them up yet, I am saving them for when I print out the stat cards for Dust 1947 and also when I get my Mythos force that I have also bought.

A simple way to make this idea of DUSThammer Quest work was to use a basic modifier or multiplier to the v1 Stat Cards (will upgrade later to the latest version when I get them printed out and play Dust 1947 over v1 Dust Tactics)
I was thinking x4, this will be applied to the ranges for Movement and Shooting attacks, since Dust Tactics uses large grid squares like Mantic's DeadZone and Warhammer Quest tiles use single square per standard mini spaces.

Warhammer Quest already has an awesome, and often mimicked but not fully-realised (in other copying games) meaningful exploration system, where the direction you choose when a fork splits in the road, actually matters.
Go the wrong way, and you have to backtrack.
Take Shadows of Brimstone for prime example, the direction you go doesn't really matter ultimately, you just keep on failing forward until the right amount of Clues are found.

I'm going to crank out my tiles and have a 'proper' play later on and see what I think, but how does this sound....

Four Heroes - Bazooka Joe, Action Jackson, The Priest, and Rosie infiltrate a secret Blutkreuz base, seeking to kill the Head of the Science Division before his experiments amplify the effects of the Reanimation Serum but on the way they will have to battle Axis Soldiers, and even the Zombies and Genetically Modified Apes of the Blutkreuz Korp.
Time is of the essence; if the team gets waylaid or goes the wrong direction in the maze of tunnels of the secret lab, that will affect the final battle when they get to it.

I will use this as a white board for my project, and do some brainstorming.