Adventure Games Journal Subscription Thread

jamesmishler · Post by **jamesmishler** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:16 pm

Adventure Games Journal

Each 48-page issue comes complete with the 32-page campaign installment, plus subscribers get special FREE products and special offers throughout their subscription term. Note that ads are minimal in the magazine, and non-existent in the campaign installment, so you get a big bang for your buck!

Subscription rates are subject to change without notice.
Adventure Games Journal Subscription Schedule: US

All prices in US $

Prices include shipping & handling

1 issue alone = $16 ($12 + $4 S&H)

1 campaign installment alone = $14 ($10 + $4 S&H)

1 issue + campaign installment = $28 ($22 + $6 S&H)

"Try Me!" subscription: 1 issue + campaign installment = $20*

3-issue subscription = $69**

6-issue subscription = $126**

First Year Special Subscription: $15 per month or $30 every other month for 10 months***
Adventure Games Journal Subscription Schedule: Canada

All prices in US $

Prices include shipping & handling

1 issue alone = $16 ($12 + $4 S&H)

1 campaign installment alone = $14 ($10 + $4 S&H)

1 issue + campaign installment = $31 ($22 + $9 S&H)

"Try Me!" subscription: 1 issue + campaign installment = $23*

3-issue subscription = $78**

6-issue subscription = $144**

First Year Special Subscription: $16 per month or $32 every other month for 10 months***
Adventure Games Journal Subscription Schedule: UK and Australia

All prices in US $

Prices include shipping & handling

1 issue alone = $21 ($12 + $9 S&H)

1 campaign installment alone = $18 ($10 + $8 S&H)

1 issue + campaign installment = $34 ($22 + $12 S&H)

"Try Me!" subscription: 1 issue + campaign installment = $26*

3-issue subscription = $90**

6-issue subscription = $168**

First Year Special Subscription: $18 per month or $36 every other month for 10 months***

* "Try Me!" available only ONCE to any single address/person; the "Try Me!" subscription gets any special FREE products plus access to the bonuses, premiums, and other special offers during the two-month/1 issue introductory subscription period.

** Subscribers get special FREE products, bonuses, premiums, and offers as might be available during the subscription period.

*** With the "First Year Special Subscription," you pay 10 monthly installments or five bi-monthly installments . During this time, as long as your payments are up to date, you get the magazine, the campaign installment, AND all the regular subscription bennies. Then, having paid for the first five issues, you get the sixth issue more or less FREE. This offer will NOT continue after the first year; thereafter, regular subscription requirements apply. The first payment in the First Year Special Subscription is due by October 7th, 2007; thereafter monthly installments will be due by the 7th of the month, or by the 7th of December 2007, and February, April, and June of 2008 for the bi-monthly payment option. The First Year Special Subscription offer ends October 8th, 2007.

Note: Wisconsin residents must add 5% sales tax

Checks and money orders can be sent to:

Adventure Games Publishing

Attn: Journal Subscriptions

PO Box 185

Iola, WI 54945

Make checks payable to Adventure Games Publishing

Checks and money orders are preferred if at all possible!

Send Paypal payments to: james at adventuregamespubs [dot] com

Adventure Games Journal #1 (Nov/Dec 2007) will be mailed out in late October.
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StealthSuitStanley · Post by **StealthSuitStanley** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:34 pm

Is there a phone line or email or web site I can use to make an order?
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jamesmishler · Post by **jamesmishler** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:49 pm

StealthSuitStanley wrote:
Is there a phone line or email or web site I can use to make an order?

If you have a question you can send an e-mail to:

subscriptions at adventuregamespubs [dot] com

Paypal payments can be sent to:

james at adventuregamespubs [dot] com

Checks or money orders can be sent to the address above.

I cannot accept credit cards or debit cards directly.

Be sure in all correspondence to include your full name and mailing address.
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:26 am

Thanks for all the options, I will definitely be trying one of them!
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jman5000 · Post by **jman5000** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:38 am

ordered!

Cheers,

J.

Storm Queen · Post by **Storm Queen** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:31 pm

Just quickly, James:

1) Do I need the 3.5 boxed set to get the most out of your magazine? Will there be JG hex references in the magazine or other such content?

2) Just to clarify, As I understand it, the GM guides in the 'off month' aren't covered by the subscription. Will this product be released into distribution or will it have to be ordered in separately?
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jamesmishler · Post by **jamesmishler** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:43 pm

Storm Queen wrote:
Just quickly, James:

1) Do I need the 3.5 boxed set to get the most out of your magazine? Will there be JG hex references in the magazine or other such content?

The material in the magazine and the campaign installments will be able to be used on its own, but it will expand the campaign extensively if you have the boxed set. That said, for example, when you get the Player's Guide and the Judge's Gazetteer of the Southern Reaches together, you do not need the boxed set to use them.

The same goes with the Guide and Gaz for any of the 18 regions of the Wilderlands (or other sections of the world). Those two books alone will give you everything you need to run a campaign in that region.

If the campaign installment is about a city or village, depending on the level of detail included on the settlement itself there may or may not be more information about the surrounding hex, or nearby hexes.

It would be best compared to the original Forgotten Realms boxed set and region booklets; you did not have to have the boxed set to use the region books, but the boxed set enhanced the use of the region books.

Oh, one other proviso... various Wilderlands-based classes that are relatively widespread (think alchemist, amazon, psychic, sage, witch, etc.), will eventually be found in the magazine itself rather than one of the campaign installments or gazetteers.

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2) Just to clarify, As I understand it, the GM guides in the 'off month' aren't covered by the subscription. Will this product be released into distribution or will it have to be ordered in separately?

Indeed, the Judge's Gazetteers are not included in the subscription; this is to keep the sub at a relatively reasonable price, as well as because the ratio of players to judges is 4 to 1 or more. Pretty much anyone that plays will be able to use the Player's Guides; only a Judge needs a Gazetteer.

Discounts on direct sales of the Gazetteers (as well as certain other AGP products) are one of the perks subscribers get; plus, if a subscriber wants, we can wait to ship the Gaz with the next issue to save on shipping and handling.

I might offer a second subscription for the gazetteers alone; still pondering that one.
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Zulgyan · Post by **Zulgyan** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:13 am

Will shipment to Argentina be available??

jamesmishler · Post by **jamesmishler** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:51 pm

Zulgyan wrote:
Will shipment to Argentina be available??

Yes. The rates for Argentina are the same as for the UK/Australia.
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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:17 pm

Should we email you before sending payment via PayPal?

jamesmishler · Post by **jamesmishler** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:33 pm

serleran wrote:
Should we email you before sending payment via PayPal?

Right now my e-mail is #$^%#$%^$#@ down anyway, so it doesn't really matter. My provider apparently was trying to upgrade something in their e-mail system this last weekend, so it's been on and off for days... and now off all day so far, dammit.

Actually, I prefer if folks e-mail me first whether using Paypal or sending a check or money order. That way we're both clear on costs, and I know to look for the payments.
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Geoffrey · Post by **Geoffrey** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:08 pm

James, how soon do we need to send you payment in order to be sure that we get the first issue?

jamesmishler · Post by **jamesmishler** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:27 pm

Geoffrey wrote:
James, how soon do we need to send you payment in order to be sure that we get the first issue?

If you want to get in on the subscription (regular sub, "Try Me!" 1-shot, or "Serleran Special"), I'll need sub payments in by the 7th of October. If you want to do the First Year Special Sub, you must pay for the first issue in full by that date ($30). I need to know the number of subs by that date to accurately gauge how many extra bits I'll need for the goodies envelope.

If you just want the magazine and campaign installment, though, I should have plenty left for a couple months. I'm going to be printing 300 copies of each to make sure I have enough for the folks who want to jump on board after the word starts spreading...
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Storm Queen · Post by **Storm Queen** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:37 pm

I've know someone who also might be interested in this, but would probably prefer to see a website rather a forum post; Let me know when you get the nuts-and-bolts details all sorted out and update the AGP website. (Will there be sample pages of layout?)
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Omote · Post by **Omote** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:56 am

I don't get around the internet that often, but how else is the AGJ being promoted? I've seen a blurb or two on various websites like Gamingreport.com and on TLG and some posts at Necromancer, but nowhere else to my knowledge. Is AGJ going to be pretty much a word-of-mouth / fan internet deal?

Just wondering.

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Plaag · Post by **Plaag** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:28 pm

Omote wrote:
I don't get around the internet that often, but how else is the AGJ being promoted? I've seen a blurb or two on various websites like Gamingreport.com and on TLG and some posts at Necromancer, but nowhere else to my knowledge. Is AGJ going to be pretty much a word-of-mouth / fan internet deal?

Just wondering.

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Its promoted on my site: http://www.acaeum.com/jg/ and the forums

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jamesmishler · Post by **jamesmishler** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:55 pm

Omote wrote:
I don't get around the internet that often, but how else is the AGJ being promoted? I've seen a blurb or two on various websites like Gamingreport.com and on TLG and some posts at Necromancer, but nowhere else to my knowledge. Is AGJ going to be pretty much a word-of-mouth / fan internet deal?

Once I have the first issue done and am able to put together a preview PDF (not the whole thing, just some teaser stuff, but enough to give folks and idea of what to expect) I'll be making the big push.

The problem is that until then, it is a virtual unknown, and all I have to show non-fans is a preview of a related product (XXXI).

I plan to make the big marketing push around the end of October, once the first issue is ready to go out. I'll be advertising and sending out PR and so forth.

If there are any websites out there that you feel would be good for me to hit, let me know. The major RPG consumer-oriented sites of which I am aware are: ENWorld, GamingReport, RPG.net, Necromancer Games, Troll Lord Games (here), Acaeum, and Dragonsfoot.

Of those only ENWorld and Gaming Report take advertising. I'm also considering advertising on a few gamer-oriented webcomics like SomethingPositive.net. We'll see where that goes...

Essentially, the reason I've not been pushing it big is I've got nothing to show... once I do, the big push will be on!
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Storm Queen · Post by **Storm Queen** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:12 pm

When it's ready, you could try sending review copies out to EnWorld and rpg.net reviewers.
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Storm Queen · Post by **Storm Queen** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:28 am

Oh, and rpg.net also takes advertising: http://www.rpg.net/ads/info.phtml (All of those banner ads at the top...)
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FTracer · Post by **FTracer** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:44 pm

James, since it was close to the 7th I just sent off a payment for the bi-monthly option to your Paypal account. Would you prefer a check next time?

jamesmishler · Post by **jamesmishler** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 3:20 pm

FTracer wrote:
James, since it was close to the 7th I just sent off a payment for the bi-monthly option to your Paypal account. Would you prefer a check next time?

Check, money order, or Paypal will be fine, thanks! I live right next door to my bank, so checks and money orders aren't as big a deal as they might be...
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Melan · Post by **Melan** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:02 am

jamesmishler wrote:
If there are any websites out there that you feel would be good for me to hit, let me know. The major RPG consumer-oriented sites of which I am aware are: ENWorld, GamingReport, RPG.net, Necromancer Games, Troll Lord Games (here), Acaeum, and Dragonsfoot.

TheRPGSite has a good number of JG fans, but site policy and opinion is against advertising, unless it is established, participating posters doing it. Being one, I'll see what I can do. Also intend to post a review of XXXI, work has to come first.

tacojohn4547 · Post by **tacojohn4547** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:00 pm

I received a subscription confirmation email from James last week. I'm really looking forward to the Journal and the Campaign Installment. Also looking forward to the Judge's Campaign Installment that will follow.

Best of luck, James, on this endevour.

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