Hey folks, I've started spending my weekends making RPG art, such as stone floors, walls, decals (cracks, scorch marks, etc.), furnishings, etc. My aim is to use these pieces to make small (up to 7"x10") rooms and make them into PDFs that can be downloaded, printed onto stock, and used by GMs to create dungeons that can be used for traditional role playing or role playing with miniatures. This is similar to the dungeon tiles that come with the D&D Miniatures Basic Game. The only real difference is that room pieces can be different sizes.
I was wondering what people here thought of the idea. In particular, do you think I could perhaps make a little money off of this? For instance, let's say that on my site, I made a print-quality PDF with sampler rooms, and if people saw and liked them, they could pay for a PDF with the complete room set for that package (i.e. Classic Dungeons, or Towns, etc.) and maybe some sample layouts and quests. For a little more, they could buy a zip file full of that stuff, plus all the tiles, decals, walls, doors, and furnishings to make their own rooms, print them out, etc.
Do you think this might work? What do you think would be good prices for just the room/layout/quest set (a.k.a. GM set) and the room/layout/quest/graphics set (a.k.a. GMPlus set)?
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Wow, those tiles are great-looking stuff. I'm doing something like the tiles, but will be throwing in maps and stuff too. My stuff isn't quite as high-quality... well, here's a sample of my work that I threw together today:
http://www.theraje.com/stuff/samplecorridor1.jpg
It's actually three "tiles," each are 3"x3" at 300dpi actual size (this image is scaled down to 72 dpi for demonstration purposes)... The Northwest corner of the corridor has light shining through a grill overhead; to the South, a torch glows in the nook in the wall; to the Northeast, some bones lie on the ground near a nook with a broken torch sconce inside.
I'm thinking I could sell these, but probably at a lower price than at 0one, and include extra goodies to make up for the lesser quality. Any thoughts?