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I'd back an English translation project for the latest edition of the game.  You betcha!

Groovy.

When will the crowdfunding project begin?  How shall one participate?

A while back I found a book listed for over a thousand dollars from an Amazon Marketplace Seller.  I messaged the seller asking, "Over a thousand dollars?  Really?  Do you honestly expect to sell it for that?".   The listing soon disappeared from Amazon.

Thank you for keeping it available, Newt!  I got the pdf in a Bundle of Holding offering awhile back, if I recall correctly, but could not find the print version until recently.  I find Lulu to be a very difficult site on which to find things for which one does not already have a URL. 

I just bought a physical book. Though, I didn't notice the hard cover option until after I had placed the softcover order.  It would be nice of Lulu displayed all formats for the one book on the same screen.  I may buy another hardcover copy in the future.

Again, thank you for maintaining its availability and I understand why it may languish for some time longer before it receives the updates and tweeks that it deserves.

Bloody Dagda teenagers and their science experiments.

/sigh/

ETA for the physical book?

11 minutes ago, Archivist said:

I have the Second Way and really like it, but it's made for BRP, right? You haven't retrofitted it for D100, have you?

BRP *is* D100.

-Edit-

OK.  Knee-jerk post on my part.  I guess by 'D100' Archivist meant Revolution D100.

On 2/28/2017 at 2:48 PM, Jakob said:

Well, I kind of suspect that it will still be BRP-based ... I seem to remember Sarah stating somewhere that it would definitely not be Fate, but something more crunchy. But I must also stress that I have no special knowledge about the whole thing.

BTW, "After the Vampire Wars" sounds interesting. Hadn't heard anything about this setting before.

Modiphious has its own house system, now: 2D20.  I would not be surprised to see Chronicles published using it.

On 5/5/2017 at 1:02 PM, Alex Greene said:

I am wondering about the kind of career which would make Seduction a Professional skill, though, and while there is a glaringly obvious career, I was also thinking of Companions as in Firefly.

Confidence men/women.

"...dropping a decently sized city into a star system every four years..."

Calls James Blish's "Cities in Flight" series to mind.  Old Earth cities (e.g., Scranton, PA, New York, NY, etc.) leave Earth and travel between the stars at sublight speeds via Spindizzy propulsion, anagathic drugs extending the lives of the citizens of the cities. They visit star systems and perform contract labor for which the cities are specialized (e.g., mining, smelting, manufacturing, etc.).

It is a shame that this game seems to have disappeared into the aether.

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1 hour ago, Simlasa said:

If only The Chronicles of Future Earth could have made the crossing as well...

Word.

You must have an old RQ6 pdf, sir.  My pdf of RQ6 2nd Ed is 38.2 MB.  Mythras interactive pdf is 37.4 MB.  In contrast, my Mindjammer pdf is 203.8 MB.   So, there's some perspective.

I'm looking forward to looking at the printed book!

I just bought the pdf from DTRPG.  So, I gather no break/credit towards the physical book when it is released.  Bummer.

I want TDM to maintain their current focus and not seek such IP-hooked projects unless they happen upon one that really trips their collective triggers.  They have carved a nice niche out and I think nurturing it will serve them best.

And, I cant think of an IP that would make sense to me.  Dune pops to mind, but then I imagine what a herculean project that would be (if it could (or should) be done).

No.  Eschew such entanglements for the time being.

Yes.  Wait.  I am so slow.  Black Sails.  Put forth a setting for Starz' Black Sails series.  That would rock.

It would appear not.

That's what I find, too.  I'd not realized there were no illustrations.  Of course, I only recently obtained the '81 edition.  I've had the '77 edition.

I understand this the current state of RPG books requires lots of art.  I've come to hold the opinion that one should forgo art if one can't get GOOD EVOCATIVE MOOD GENERATING art like that which was achieved in the Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea rules. 

I like that the '81 books don't have illustrations.

Thank you, Loz!

On 9/7/2016 at 4:44 PM, lawrence.whitaker said:

Depending on where you're shipping to, you should be given a range of shipping options and costs. We have never tacked on the most expensive shipping; up until quite recently, shipping outside the US was heavily subsidized. However, shipping anything from the US to a non-US destination is becoming more and more costly to do. And we have no control over it.

Well, when I ordered my copy from the TDM store ( a day or three ago), the most expensive shipping (~$35 for overnight UPS, if I recall correctly) was added by default.  I was able to choose a less costly option, but there WAS a moment of "Holy Shit!" when I saw shipping almost as much as the cost of the book.  I live in the U.S.  If you all can look into changing the way shipping is added to new orders at first click, I think you will do your patrons a service.

Thank you for sharing your progress. I am looking forward to having the final fruit of your labor.  I like a bit of white space to allow the page to feel less claustrophobic and to make room for the odd note.

On 8/15/2016 at 9:17 AM, Darmath said:

I have always been a big fan of those rules myself. Now that RuneQuest is being woven tightly with Glorantha (as indeed it should be) I need to find a system that my own Bronze Age homebrew can use.

I recommend The Design Mechanism's excellent Mythras (formerly RQ6) rules as a replacement for Magic World.

This is cool.  I look forward to seeing what you come up with.