From what I read of my copy, it is a D&D variation. Don't have my copy anymore, alas.

Kai Lung, i sent you a PM  

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You are optimistic :)

Considering the number of people having the game, and who know that they still have it, I am not sure that at least 3 persons are playing to this game...[/quote]

I played my house rule variation of BMG last week. Fun to start teaching my sons a game I first played 30 years ago.

underdog wrote:Sorry for the LONG delay in this thread and thank you to Vault Keeper for the encouragement at getting a version of this reprinted. I am going to do a print on demand version soon. Probably within the next few weeks. The rules will be almost exactly the same ones published in the 2nd Edition published in 1982. The layout is different, but I tried to keep it looking the same as the original. More news to follow.

I have not posted to this topic before, as the original item was simply too pricey for me to chase and I (like some others) wont even bother chasing down electronic copies.

This however, is VERY HAPPY NEWS for us more monetarily challeneged collectors!
I will eagerly await further news and I would stand in line for the POD copies to surface!

Thanks Bill, that's amazing!

i'm very happy, you know that many persons are already willing to buy and read BM&G!

(i'm going to reply to you in private today)

bye

I just got my "proof" copy from Lulu.com. Since then I have been refining the text and making small changes to the cover so that the text will fit better. I am including a sample of the cover here.



I was surprised. I think that the proof looks GOOD. Man! I wish I had had print on demand back in 1980! This version is very much like the original (2nd edition) in many ways. "Avernus Dis" sent me a Microsoft Publisher version of the book that he'd scanned in back in 2008, and I found that file and I have been working with it, fixing the remaining OCR errors, changing the margins on the layout to fix the printer (such as having a 0.75" gutter in the middle of the book for the binding), but I left the original text intact (with some changes to fit the new layout) and the original artwork is there too.

Anyway, it will probably still be a while before I am ready to sell this, but I think I am getting close. Does anyone have any suggestions about what I should charge for copies? I would probably be interested in selling signed copies, and I am going to limit the number in this addition. If there's any interest, I will revive my plans someday for a later set of rules, but this set I won't sell again.

===Bill Underwood===

Probably if you can sell 25 copies on Lulu you are probably doing well so price it accordingly.

I don't have a problem with a hardback version. I wasn't planning on it, but I don't think it is any more trouble (or not much) to do a hardback cover and price it accordingly. I am still waiting on my 2nd proof set, this one from CreateSpace.com, which is going to be better in terms of layout and much fewer typos, but I am going to have to read through it and make at least one more revision before I am ready to sell anything. This will probably take at least another couple of weeks.

I still haven't decided on the PDF version. I know I could watermark the pages. I am, however, thinking about converting it to Kindle, Nook, and other e-book formats. I'm not sure when but probably will. Does anyone have opinions on that?