Teos Abadie

Once you've got that outline of what you're doing, and then the producer must ensure everybody's on track, everybody's keeping to the schedule so that it all comes together.

Once you've got that outline of what you're doing, and then the producer must ensure everybody's on track, everybody's keeping to the schedule so that it all comes together.

Yeah, I think that's great. I saw your list and I was very impressed. It's really good. This is a topic that Scott Gray and I have been thinking about covering in the future to do a little video on how a book is made. And this touches a lot of this. This is kind of nice. What's my appetite for that?

Yeah, I think that's great. I saw your list and I was very impressed. It's really good. This is a topic that Scott Gray and I have been thinking about covering in the future to do a little video on how a book is made. And this touches a lot of this. This is kind of nice. What's my appetite for that?

So two thoughts that we didn't mention but are pretty critical. One is marketing. And we tend to make fun of marketing, sort of the evil entity and so on. And they do things like, say, you must put your Baldur's Gate and your Avernus Adventure and things like that. It's not without reason, right? It's because, well, we expected this video game to come out way back then.

So two thoughts that we didn't mention but are pretty critical. One is marketing. And we tend to make fun of marketing, sort of the evil entity and so on. And they do things like, say, you must put your Baldur's Gate and your Avernus Adventure and things like that. It's not without reason, right? It's because, well, we expected this video game to come out way back then.

And so having a tie in at that time would have been so perfect if actually the video game company had hit their schedule and it all had worked out right. Or things that were done around the movie. I heard things about the movie that was an entirely different D&D movie. that they were trying to do tie-ins, but well, let's just go ahead and get this done because it's not gonna work.

And so having a tie in at that time would have been so perfect if actually the video game company had hit their schedule and it all had worked out right. Or things that were done around the movie. I heard things about the movie that was an entirely different D&D movie. that they were trying to do tie-ins, but well, let's just go ahead and get this done because it's not gonna work.

So just plans change, but marketing's trying to make the most out of those things, and the more that things are moving around, well, you end up doing things for what later seems like no reason at all. When it's pulled off, it's great, right?

So just plans change, but marketing's trying to make the most out of those things, and the more that things are moving around, well, you end up doing things for what later seems like no reason at all. When it's pulled off, it's great, right?

Good job.

Good job.

The other one here is that usually there's somebody at a very large company that's in charge of the whole print and distribution shipping type thing. And so if you think about there's a release date, whether it's a Kickstarter date or it's a two stores date or whatever, and the bigger you are, I mean, Wizards has to deal with this. And it's a nightmare, right?

The other one here is that usually there's somebody at a very large company that's in charge of the whole print and distribution shipping type thing. And so if you think about there's a release date, whether it's a Kickstarter date or it's a two stores date or whatever, and the bigger you are, I mean, Wizards has to deal with this. And it's a nightmare, right?

Trying to get that many books printed and stuff. You need special agreements with very special printers and multiple points of entry in multiple countries even. But even at a smaller level, that timing, that's a real challenge. And so somebody who knows, okay, you're going to get me these print file ready at this date so that I can get it to the shipper. The shipper is ready to print.

Trying to get that many books printed and stuff. You need special agreements with very special printers and multiple points of entry in multiple countries even. But even at a smaller level, that timing, that's a real challenge. And so somebody who knows, okay, you're going to get me these print file ready at this date so that I can get it to the shipper. The shipper is ready to print.

They'll save us that window. It all come out. That is a very tough job, too, because, of course, you know, everybody's going to want to say, I'm sure they can find another date. No. Right. And then the things like, well, if we wait too long, the price of shipping changes and our whole profit margin shifts and any number of things like that.

They'll save us that window. It all come out. That is a very tough job, too, because, of course, you know, everybody's going to want to say, I'm sure they can find another date. No. Right. And then the things like, well, if we wait too long, the price of shipping changes and our whole profit margin shifts and any number of things like that.

And so those people are all hugely important as well in the scheme of things.

And so those people are all hugely important as well in the scheme of things.