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Possibly The Most Awesome Charity Drive Ever
As seen on Raph Koster’s blog – donate $20 to MSF’s Haitian relief through DriveThroughRPG and get almost $1500 worth of game book PDFs.
That’s not a typo, that’s awesome. You have no excuse whatsoever. GO!
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about 7 months ago
Completely looking the gift horse in the mouth, I’m a little leery giving my credit card to these guys – seems a bit too good to be true.
about 7 months ago
I’ve purchased from them a couple of times. Never had a problem. (I’ll even recommend one of my purchases: “The Collectors – The Burning House” was written by a friend of a friend, and is quite good.)
about 7 months ago
They’re legit – I’ve bought from them in the past. If you’re really paranoid, just use Paypal, no need to give ‘em your CC number.
If they were handing out 1400 bucks worth of printed matter for a 20 dollar donation, that would be too good to be true, but this is digital, remember. One copy, one hundred thousand copies, makes very little difference.
about 7 months ago
I looked at the titles in their bundle. Bleh. Do it for the charity, not for the bundle.
about 7 months ago
Consider it done. Paypal was a good suggestion.
about 7 months ago
Done. The site is fairly reputable. I’ve gotten some free PDFs in the past from them.
As a game designer, I love pawing through RPG systems to get inspiration and information. I agree with JuJutsu, a lot of the stuff seems to be (to put i t politely) filler. But, there are a few good bits in it, like the Serenity RPG core book. In all honesty, a typical person might get a few hundred dollars of use out of the list. But, this is a gold mine for a designer or a designer wannabe.
about 7 months ago
Done.
They’ve already have 3,853 individual “donators”. Pretty impressive response.
about 7 months ago
That’s the geekiest fund drive ever, and that includes Child’s Play. I’m in.
about 7 months ago
I bought it. With the exception of maybe 2 or books there aren’t any core games here, it’s all supplements and misc. stuff. (a few cool papercraft dungeon things, some comics)
It comes with the firefly core book and one other one which I can’t remember right now, but I had never heard of.
Honestly though for 20 bucks? its worth it, imo. Even if it wasn’t charity.
about 7 months ago
(that was supposed to be “…2 or 3 books”) sigh.
about 7 months ago
they have another two offers, where they double your donations without you getting ebooks.
And the bundle is also more on the “mediocre” side of their ebook list.
… but it made me donate and grab some old WhiteWolf books while I was already on the site
about 7 months ago
I’m not seeing any worthwile d&d 4th ed books. Think I’ll pass.
Once again, haiti is a great excuse to liquidate old/unsellable inventory.
about 7 months ago
As pardoz pointed out, it’s digital inventory…it’s not like they’re saving on storage costs for physical product by liquidating stock-on-hand. I will grant you that they’re not incurring much in the way of opportunity costs by giving away items that might be purchased otherwise… And they increase traffic to the site and pick up some incremental sales [see Yellobird above].
Still, its a Good Thing. I think they deserve kudos.
about 7 months ago
Hey, same reason I went for it. It’s not that I’m looking to outright plagiarize, mind you, but I might be making (for example) a Sci-Fi game and thinking to myself, “what are some cool things to put in this sci-fi game?” These are good sources for that, even if the implementation will be completely different.
about 7 months ago
I bought this the other day, $20 for a good cause? That’s a NO BRAINER, No one should be thinking about what that $20 gives you, ESPICALLY if you haven’t made any donations to Haiti yet. (GEORGE CLOONEYS charity drive is TONIGHT on ABC I believe, another good opportunity to donate)
At first I thought it was for like little indepentant CRPGs, then I found out it was for pen and paper stuff. I’m not a big pen and paper guy, but I LOVE reading DnD manuals. I am looking forward to just reading some of this stuff. One of these days I’ll get a good DnD group going.
about 7 months ago
If you are looking to do a Dungeons and Dragons game, I would seriously recommend the Pathfinder rule set. These guys bought out the rights to 3.5 and then went about fixing most of the major problems with the system. The end result is really good.
I bought the 4th edition game and to me it pretty much took out EVERY opportunity for you to be heroic while playing a heroic fantasy RPG. This is not the D&D you are looking for, move along.
about 7 months ago
I bought it today, on the premise that even if I only use two books out of those provided, I’m still getting about double what I would expect when spending $20 on an RPG. The list is something like twelve pages long, and I am absolutely certain that you’ll be able to get something out of at least half of the books.
It’s also more incentive to check out the Pathfinder set, which does seem pretty darned interesting. Especially since you can port the bulk of D&D3′s various snap-on bits into it, to the best of my understanding.
about 7 months ago
Done!
about 7 months ago
I have an idea, let’s have an edition war in Lum’s comment thread.
about 7 months ago
Predictably, DriveThruRPG’s bandwidth is hurting. Here’s what you’ll get if you try to download any of the PDFs you purchased:
about 7 months ago
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘Give ’till it hurts’.
But yeah, I kicked in my $20. The Spycraft book is in there, and that’s useful.
about 7 months ago
I’ve given DTRPG hundreds of dollars in business of the last couple years. They’re a great way to try obscure and indie RPGs for cheap. It’s an idea gold mine.
The bundle includes many things I’ve bought, or had on my wish list. It does include a lot of crap, but I just won’t download that…
about 7 months ago
Have you tried looking in the Library Of Imaginary Things? Probably you can find them right next to the books on hunting unicorns and capturing rainbows.
about 7 months ago
Freakazoid doesn’t like something and thinks people care? What a new and interesting development!
about 7 months ago
I’m always up for one of them! But in the circumstances, let peace reign!
about 7 months ago
Never underestimate the power of an incredible bargain: