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I wish Chaosium well with this PoD and the Advanced Sorcery one too. Having these options for physical books is amazing.

Amazing news 🙂

A seconder for this as well.

The real benefit, in the hands of a DM who can frame the prompts well enough, is indeed being able to author on the fly text - that can be edited/changed/redone and reworked - it's a jumping off point type tool - not necessarily and end in and of itself. I'm looking forward to future more refined versions that reduce the mistakes producing contradictory text. And a better/broader range of understandings of TTRPG rulesets.

They also release a promotional list of tasks for the future that had similar wording to 'previous editions being considered for placing in the CC' - if that means a ruleset like 3.5e and its complete SRD (minus obvious IP details) could go CC that would an epic move too - I'll wait and see. I just want to extend my understanding and playing past only 'D&D adjacent' stuffs. D100 based games fill that requirement.

So true - heaps of connections within the industry we are not likely to have for sure. Great points. I really hope the ORC license 'works' going forward as an alternative open gaming license anyway. Something that gives the hobby and industry a full certainty. Even if the principle might not be anything more than a 'wish' in terms of the market dynamics. Quiet fan lives in hope. 🙂

Amazing news. Thanks so much Chaosium!! :)

Thanks for this full clarification. Never intended to infer negative motives or talk Chaosium down. I really like MW and missed out on being able to get a physical copy years ago. Love the idea that a PoD option is being planned. So glad COC Classics are getting the PoD love too. Working towards budgeting for the BRP PoD book myself in fact now in a few days. So, kudos, and I wish you and your team at Chaosium well in processing the extensive list you all have to deal with to keep us supplied with physical books. I know there are stories of others being burned by PoD print and production quality of other games/titles etc and I'm sad for those folks but I've always found mine to be of good quality from OneShelf/DTRPG when they've arrived. And shipping to Australia has been reasonable for me. Not sure about pricing these days compared to 2020 re that but willing to pay for it to have Chaosium physical material that is unavailable to me directly from your warehouse(s). . (*Note to self* "Order RuneQuest H/C books SOON...." .lol 🙂)

To me a prudent approach is to wait and see until the ORC license is released - contributing where they feel necessary along the way. I wish them well however this turns out.

Yes, re Magic World going PoD. Something I'd like to see. Don't have a copy - will have to go to a local print shop for that I guess.

I'm just glad BRP has gone PoD on DTRPG- thanks again Chaosium!! 🙂 Still yet to order my copy - but will be done in time.

EPIC news - I got my pdfs in a previous sale. I was more meaning Chaosium announced no further support for the titles. If you want them then go ahead while they are still available on DTRPG. From 2016 -

As I understand it Chaosium themselves are strong backers of this effort. Re the ORC license.

Hmmm....colour me many shades of intrigued...... 🙂 lol

Both discontinued Chaosium products now. (MW and Advanced Sorcery.)