I mean, who has the money to spend thousands of pounds/dollars on a few books? Sure there's the comic thing with Amazing Fantasy #15 and Action Comics #38 selling for piles of cash but I never thought RPGs would go that way.
I see a lot of pictures of 'Shelfies' with complete run lines of this or that and with a supposed dollar value in the thousands for stuff that's hard to get.
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I bought multiple copies because I've killed two Rules Cyclopedias over the years and there was no legal way to get hold of the PDF so it was used/battered dead tree or pirated fuzzyscan™. The ones I have I bought cheap (single figures in some cases) in the knowledge they were used copies to use not collect and treasure forever in a glass case in mom's basement aka Deathlords Sanctum of Adventurecraft. I think Rules Cyclopedia prices were getting to the £50-£75 range at one point which is a big no no for me. That's just my opinion, you may disagree but each to their own. Similar to the Shipman guy and Tunnels and Trolls. I don't know if his game is better, just the guy's attitude ("You're pirating a game I ripped off? how dare you!" or whatever) that rubs me up the wrong way. I'd rather play Warhammer 1e which is sat on my shelf from when I bought it when it came out. The Zweihander guy will never get a penny from me and I will not play his game. I have no qualms at all to support such a designer because I supports the way he does business. I've never played any of the games he's made but backed practically all of them in PDF. He's very successful and probably the best shining example of small press/indie publisher there has ever been in our hobby for his work ethic and ability to deliver on time or early every time without fail or have a damn good reason why.
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Kevin Crawford/Sine Nomine takes a different approach and gives away a free version of his stuff. On the other hand it's a bit rich coming from him as he basically ripped off Warhammer Fantasy RPG 1st edition for his own game and most likely hasn't given a dime to them.
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He worked hard to get his book out there and doesn't want to give it away for free because he has bills to pay. The Zweihander guy has a reasonable argument to make from my mind. I'm happy to support them and spend more money than I should at Drive Thru/Kickstarter seeing as I've barely if ever used any of the stuff I buy. I'm not defending the sharing of stuff you can buy from Drive Thru or the game producers website. Please?įuzzy scans have been around for a long time with wonky pages and text that hurts your eyes to read and quality of scanning has gotten better but nothing competes with made from the digital ground up of stuff of course. Come on RPGs production companies, print your back catalogues on demand.
They were getting stupid then POD came out and prices fell sharply. Look what Print on Demand prices did to Rules Cyclopedias. Good luck to him but I'll stick to the set I bought for £20 and maybe hope there's a decent scan out there some day to keep it alive. There's a set on ebay for £63 that's sat there forever, one of four sold by the same buyer. Marvel Saga (damn that needs a better scan) is another. At some point we'll not be around and the game will be gone. As it is it took the fans to scan their stuff with variable quality and put it out there for people to grab that keeps the game alive and even then mostly for us old farts that bought it first time round (85 I think) up to 3rd Edition in 1993 that keep the memory of the game alive. It's my most played, favourite game system.
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I'd love to pay for a clean well scanned professional looking PDF of the entire DC Heroes RPG line. It does mean that I don't really buy from ebay much these days and my purchases are either new (rare) or on impulse if it's cheap. With regards ebay sellers, why not inflate the price if someone is willing to pay it and you know when you sell it you will have to search high and low for a replacement and probably pay over the odds too? I don't blame anyone for wanting the best buck they can get but I won't pay for a book beyond a certain price point. It's the games that are unavailable except by ebay/forums with the inflated prices and are in legal limbo or just plain dead for whatever reason that attract me. When a PDF is cheap and easily accessible and I want to use it, I buy it. Sure there's DnD and pretty much everything on there from a broad range of games but I've bought the vast majority of what I want from Drivethru. I think the main attraction is to get hold of games that are no longer in print and there are no digital editions of said game.
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