I’ve bought a few games from IPR now. My experience has been OK; they are slow to ship but they have games that it is hard to find elsewhere. I wanted Mouse Guard the RPG, so looked at IPR. Then I looked at Amazon. From Amazon, for about the same price of Mouse Guard plus tax + shipping, I was able to get the Mouse Guard RPG plus Mouse Guard Fall 1152 and get it all in my hands about four days later. I’m sure it would have taken a week or more for IPR to get me just the RPG.
But last night I ordered and downloaded the Evil Hat PDF bundle, which includes Don’t Rest Your Head and Spirit of the Century as well as the PDF of Houses of the Blooded all for $25. That’s awesome!
I hope that the creators get a better deal from IPR than they do from places like Amazon. Smaller visibility games and publishers get a better shot of being noticed by being featured on the IPR podcast and in the store, so that’s certainly a good thing. I have already given IPR a fair amount of money over the past few months and will check in regularly for new (and previously missed) stuff. If my local game store carried more small press games, I’d give the local guys more business. So, in a way IPR is my “local” game store that I want to succeed. But they can’t be all things to all people. I think they have found a good niche.
I just wish they could improve their product fullfillment.
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