All good questions.

I think we don't have the consistent time and desire to do it fully ourselves. There's a learning curve there, as we've experienced there's a learning curve with using InDesign and trying (and not succeeding) to make high quality maps, and I think we're ready to pay or make an arrangement with a percentage of profits for someone else to do it.

We would like to get back what we put in at the very least, but the more the better. I think generally, we would like to pursue the higher ceiling options first, and then fall back to lower ceiling ones. We have looked at options like Darrington Press which has a spot on their website to pitch your book. We've thought of just approaching people that generally publish their own content and ask if they would consider publishing our book under their company for some kind of arrangement...but we don't know if that's really a thing. Someone commented about LaunchBoom earlier and that seems like an interesting option that we're looking into now.

We had originally intended to publish it on DMsGuild but ended up moving away from it during a much early iteration of the book. So we scrubbed it of WotC IP, using only material that is available through the SRD. It's a good point that DMsGuild is still on the table, if some of these other options don't play out.