Experiences Publishing Free Games on DriveThruRPG/RPGNow?
I’ve been asked why my Microlite74, Microlite78, and Microlite81 games are not available on DriveThruRPG/RPGNet. I was under the impression that OBS (the parent company of those sites) frowned on people who only made free games putting them on their sites. I also thought that they required their PDFs to be formated very differently than mine — something like the covers (both front and back) have to be before the rest of the book (which seems silly to me as it just makes the book hard to print out). I’m also not a fan of their watermark DRM — I see no point to it on free stuff like my games.
However, I’ll admit that I haven’t really looked into this in several years (probably since I released since version 1.1 of Microlite74). If anyone has any recent experiences publishing free games on DriveThruRPG/RPGNet and feels like commenting on how much trouble it is (or isn’t) to do so compared to just putting it up on their website, I’d much appreciate it. If you don’t want to comment in public, email or a private message on Google+ is okay as well.
Thanks and a tip of my GM Viking Hat in advance!