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,,,is finally in print and available for sale. To borrow the one phrase that applies, what a long strange trip it's been, Back in the autumn of 2018, several readers of my tentacle novels asked if I'd considered doing a roleplaying game set in the world of The Weird of Hali. Conversations, followed, and it turned out someone was listening: the publisher of Aeon Games, who contacted me and offered a contract. So away we went. I got quite a bit of help from my readers, from brainstorming ideas to playtesting the results, and finally, in late 2019, the manuscript went to the publisher.
Then the world went crazy. We had a pandemic, and governments around the world reacted to it in weirdly atypical and mostly counterproductive ways, and supply chains buckled and broke, and -- well, you can fill in the blanks as well as I can. Of course that's more or less what's supposed to happen when eldritch sorceries awaken the Great Old Ones and Great Cthulhu rises from drowned R'lyeh, but I didn't think a roleplaying game would do that...
The last step was a Kickstarter, which was launched a little more than a month ago. From the beginning I fielded emails from readers who would have been eager to chip in, but they were broke because their spouse had been vaccinated and hadn't been healthy enough to work since then, or they were about to lose their jobs because of vaccine mandates, or they'd walked away from a lousy job because it sucked and were getting by on less money, or -- well, here again, you can fill in the blanks as well as I can. So the Kickstarter fell short of its goal.
I'm glad to say that the people at Aeon Games looked at that, and bellowed, "Damn the tentacles, full speed ahead!" So the PDF version of the game is available right now and the print version is being printed as we speak, for mailing in a couple of weeks. You can order a copy here. The publisher's offering a 20% discount; use the discount code WOH20.
If the world has gone crazy, you might as well embrace the weirdness. Enjoy!
***Update:*** I've just heard from the publisher. They had a glitch in the system that got in the way of immediate download of the PDF version, and that's been fixed. They've also added a PDF-only option at a reduced price, which you can find here.
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Date: 2021-10-20 07:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-10-20 11:12 pm (UTC)Bought it!
Date: 2021-10-20 07:40 pm (UTC)By the way, the ebook currently says, "Not yet available for download," but I trust that will be remedied before too long.
(I never thought I'd be suggesting on online group to play a TTRPG in the heart of Green Wizard territory, but it seems like it's not a terrible option at the moment . . .)
Re: Bought it!
Date: 2021-10-20 11:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-10-20 07:57 pm (UTC)--David BTL
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Date: 2021-10-20 08:18 pm (UTC)AV
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Date: 2021-10-20 08:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-10-20 08:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-10-20 11:01 pm (UTC)Ah, the joys of synchronicities!
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Date: 2021-10-20 11:14 pm (UTC)Just sayin'
Date: 2021-10-23 10:05 pm (UTC)Re: Just sayin'
Date: 2021-10-24 04:26 am (UTC)(rubs hands together, cackles, goes to get cheese polenta cooking to feed to the shoggoths when they show up.)
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Date: 2021-10-25 08:49 pm (UTC)