Mars wrote:You should go check and see if you can find one. I think you would have to do a little bit of digging to find one (especially to get one at cover price). Of the stores in Canada, most of the major stores (the ones that carried the Castles & Crusades line) are out of copies and so are the distributors.Of the online resellers, NK and Troll&Toad don't have copies either. There currently aren't any on Ebay and I can't find one in the completed auctions either.
serleran wrote:I just did a search in Google using just the words "kuntz dark chateau" and two places came up selling it -- one was Amazon.
serleran wrote:It was very, very, very easy to get just last year, being on sale for quite a long time.
Greetings Seekers,I am reading your posts and working towards and end - my goal is to make sure Gary's intellectual property is safeguarded and protected. This takes time, more time than I anticipated - it's not that nothing is going on, I just can not disclose confidential information.We all want to see Gary's work continue and rest assured, I am working towards that!I appreciate your patience and understanding. We all miss him and want to keep his memory alive! I am dedicated to just that.Gail Gygax
. wrote:I may be, at some point in the future, in a position to offer backup digital copies of CZ to those who really want to read, preserve or game with them. A freebie. I am sure there is nothing illegal in providing backup copies.
gyg wrote:Bacause they said they did, of course (and would obviously destroy the digital version if they ever dispensed of the hard copy)
faro wrote:Strange how one can rely on that, isn't it?
. wrote:Furthermore, burning the recipient's PayPal ID into the PDF as metadata, and/or as a watermark would deter redistribution online. My primary concern is wider distribution of pirate copies. Whilst I trust everyone here, and can control who I send files to, I have no control over who they trust and/or pass files to.
. wrote:But I have a problem with the sheer volume of pirate goods online and would not wish to be the person who put CZ up there. That is my dilema.
gyg wrote:(btw - you trust EVERYONE here - really? )
Nice Hantlers wrote:It will probably happen eventually, whether you pass your copy around or not.
. wrote:That doesn't necessarily mean I want to contribute to that, and furthermore, I take pride in the quality of my work, and I wouldn't want to see an increase in the general quality of pirate scans on the internet, because that only encourages it further. If people download poor quality pirate copies, they end up buying what they like for real. People have a tendancy to value what they've worked and paid for, but not what they got for free.As a sounding board, Acaeum is good, mainly because most of the people who are regulars here have similar concerns and motives as my own. We all collect and want the best we can find for our collections, and we want to protect our investments and prevent the value of that investment from being corroded.I may take a slightly more pragmatic view of preserving products for the future (by digitizing them), because I do not trust that the rare and uncommon items (particularly those outwith most peoples buying power or scope of interest) will not wholely disappear from the planet in time (clearly CZ:UW is not in this catagory, but much of what I scan may be). I believe it is encumbent on some of us to preserve these items for the future, and digital copies seems more preferable over microfieche, and is the only real alternative.Example - I used to work in the music scene for my sins, and one of the bands was called Love Decree, an Edinburgh group who had a number one hit with a ditty that was all over Scottish adverts for Tennants Lager, and became the youth/football icon song for one particularly hot summer in Scotland. Looking back some 10 years later, when Soul Seeker was the peer network of choice, I went looking for Love Decree and their song, Something So Real, and it was nowhere. Indeed, there was absolutely no information online at all, and no-one stocking back catalog. Now I knew they'd put out a 7" and a 12" on general release, and a CD Single in very small numbers. It took about 6 months and I tracked down copies on vinyl, had a DJ friend convert them to mp3 and offered it up to fileshare. Lo-and-behold, I do a Google search now and the mp3 file is everywhere. It seems the song is well known and whether Love Decree were instrumental in doing this themselves, or whether people just downloaded my mp3 and then continued to share it, this song is preserved forever (or as forever as you can get).Now I'm not advocating distribution of pirate PDFs, but more a case of promoting the distribution of backup copies to people who already own products. If I get burgled and my collection goes, or have a fire and everything goes, it would be good to be able to go back online and download everything I bought from RPGNow. They provide a safety net for much valued Abysthor and Rappan Athuk for example.Someone buys a manuscript for a dungeon for many thousands of dollars. A unique item of great provenence. Should disaster befall that someone's collection, you would like to hope that he could go back to source and say 'I don't suppose you kept a digital copy of that item, did you? Can I have it?'Personally, I get much more value for money out of buying PDFs than making them, and I buy them whenever I can. The time and effort I put in can only be justified as a hobby or passion. I try to encourage companies to release PDFs, but it is a long hard fight against wild geese and brick walls.
