I'd love to see a PDF of Tradervale.

One final item was closed out thanks to a heads up from a fellow member.
So I also have both the Tortured Souls fanzines that predated TS! magazine.
I'll need to check to see which of the CDM boxed sets I had scanned prior to my entire collection being sold. I suspect I have 1, 2, 3 and the the manuscript for 5 scanned, but not Feathered Preists, so it's a hole in the collection.
I also touched base briefly with the artist (one of) that created such a distinctive look, and we explored to possibility of him maybe contributing cover art, etc. So I'd need to sift through years of archived e-mails to track that down.

Publishing has legal dangers. John Barrett is aware and I believe still on the scene occasionally, and I don't like to harm others IP, although the statute of limitations must be fast approaching, and a non-profit venture may not draw too much hostility, however, Games Workshop do have a historic interest in the CDM series, and I'm no copyright lawyer. I do see the desire for historic works of past generations to be preserved for future generations, and preservation cannot be relied upon, or accessed, in a world (in the UK certainly) with no games stores, no libraries, and access for all to the internet.

So digital images (PDFs) seem like to most reasonable archival format.

Much like the Moldvay bookends, and Starstone reprint, things drift very slowly and I do my best to ensure I have more than one digital archive of what I assembled.

I know I have TS1, pretty sure I have 2 and 4 as well. Do you have those?

mbassoc2003 wrote in Ian's Tortured Souls collection:There is a flyer I think that David has that I don't have a digital copy of.

I think I had a flyer at one point. Don't know if that's what you're thinking of or if I sent you a pic.

I found 9, 10 and 12 to be far rarer than the others, in that order, with 12 being the rarest. For some reason 11 seemed to crop up quite often when I was connection a few years back. Over the past year or so 9 seems to have cropped up more regularly, but the whole range seems to turning up less often these days.

On a similar note (similar publication) GM1 Flight of Eagles seemed to be stupidly hard to come by, with GM2 coming in a close second. That set is also well worth getting a hold off, and there's only 5.

Basil Barrett dropped off the radar.

IP is owned by Basil Barrett and Simon Forrest. Some form of overlap (commercial interest) therefor exists (or is believed to exist) between the TS! IP and what was licensed (sold?) to Games Workshop for the Domestones Campaign Book Series. Beast Entz. (read Basil and Simon) developed the Zhalindor Campaign World and published it as the uniting thread running through Tortured Souls!. Then they linked up with Integrated Games to expand in into boxed sets, which subsequently were picked up by GW and rewritten for WRPG.

So I offered to provide Basil with PDFs and do all the running/managing to bring a CD archive to print. I was in touch with the TS! iconic artist who did all those wonderful pics, and he was happy to allow the PDFs to go ahead and to do something new for the cover. He was very enthusiastic. Sadly Basil was not interested, Simon was not traceable (by me anyways) and Allen Hickling (CDM Series) had retired to his fish or model train shop (I forget which.)

To my mind this is as dead end as far as getting a digital product out to fans goes.

Feasibly one could release PDFs of the original TS! magazines on the basis that they are magazines and have surpassed their 25 year copyright period. But one would no doubt rapidly received a cease and desist letter from Basil Barrett or Games Workshop or both, and it would not be wise to ignore such a letter.

All that said, Google seems to be rather good at finding pretty low quality PDFs, not in any way produced by myself, out there on the internet, so a product would only really bring a certain polish, artwork, and anything else in the way of backstory, clarity and reminiscences to the collecting community. A decade ago I very much wanted to be a part of that. I probably still would be, but without the interest of those who created it, I'll leave the grey area of PDF propagation to others.

Which reminds me, Larry Leeds dropped me an e-mail. Must go and find that.