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Well I'm still working on pricing, though the day is young, so there's hope that it will be done this evening. I am going to go visit my sister tonight in the hospital (the family crisis I mentioned yesterday) so we'll have to see how much time I actually have this evening. There are several unique features of this website which makes pricing difficult. In the simplest model, you buy something physical; paying the price gives you the item which you can then do whatever you want with. Even under a system where you bought an individual adventure (which is coming, BTW), you still do not get an actual product -- you get the right to generate a specific adventure, presumably forever. But it's still a lot different than buying a physical book, and that's the easiest scenerio.

The most common way for people to access the site will be in bulk. A single username and password will allow them access to anything DK has ever published for a certain period of time. In this case, you not only have to charge for the material that's going to be released during the duration of their subscription, but everything that came before. Then the questions arises: which is worth more, the old adventures, which are after all, old, or the new adventures which are of unknown subject matter? Then there is the whole issue of recurring payments. Lots off people seem to really hate the idea of having something automatically come out of their account every month or so, but it makes lots of things easier on my end so do I give people a discount if they're willing to go the auto pay route?

Anyway, obviously these are things I have to decide, but I will definitely let you know. As I said before, I'm still hoping to have it taken care of this evening. I realize things have been pretty boring the last few days. I did come across an interesting article. It looks like Patrick Stewart and Michael Clarke Duncan are going to be doing voices for a D&D video game. I think this illustrates how big video games are getting when the voice talent is approaching the stature of a movie like Toy Story or something like that. In any case, that's all for now.

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