I have approached a company to purchase the rights to produce an rpg based upon one of their authors works and they have come back with a positive response so far. The trouble is, I have no idea of what is a good offer.
I realise that say, the Star Wars or Lord of the Rings rights would be prohibitively expensive to anyone other than a big company. I also realize that it would depend on what the rights you buy extend to - for example how long you can keep the rights and what they actually allow you to do. This would no doubt all be a part of the contract.
Does anyone have any experience of this at all, that they would be able to share with me? Thank you guys.
SimonW
There is some good amount of information on licensing in our e-Publisher Guide that can help you. But without any information and shooting from the hip, around 5-10% is reasonable and they'll probably ask for an advance (front money to be counted against that and probably not returnable) to get started.
http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1668
Best of luck
James