I owned it bitd, but a great find these days. There is a three player scenario where one player can be Saruman and basically be the third party spoiler with an Orc horde.
I don't mean to entirely derail the thread, but I am wondering about the ethics of printing the not-legal-at-all PDF of this game that has been floating about the internet for years, and playing the game that way. I don't think I am ever going to be able to afford a copy. This work seems to be dead, never, ever to be reprinted.
How much deference do I owe to the copyright owners? I definitely think that selling a copy on eBay is beyond the pale, but I wonder how different that would be from printing out my own copy and playing it?
Anyone care to enumerate the moral hazards involved?
Where did it all go wrong, Casey? I can’t pinpoint it, but it was already too late when they remade 3:10 to Yuma and took a movie that was mostly two men talking about morality in a hotel room and put in a Gatling gun.
This is my gaming circle minus my ACKS players. I am such an asshole. Since they're in the big city now, the players really wanted to know if there were any magic weapons for sale. ACKS ain't 3e or 4e though. There is exactly one magic weapon for sale. I rolled randomly to see what it was and... ...it's a cursed -2 sword. So I told the players there's a weapons dealer/fence who's looking to get rid of a magic sword he's gotten ahold of...cheap. Only 6,000gp when usually a +1 item would be 10,000gp. So far they are not suspicious. They're going to be so pissed at me. I can barely contain my excitement.
I owned it bitd, but a great find these days. There is a three player scenario where one player can be Saruman and basically be the third party spoiler with an Orc horde.
ReplyDeleteI just flipped through the book. Holy 70's game design.
ReplyDeleteCasey G. Super SPI paragraph-legal organization.
ReplyDeletePlayed that back in the day... Great memories...
ReplyDeleteMy first wargame. Played it solo; need to give the actual game a shot. Especially since I didn't understand the Sauron scanning mechanic.
ReplyDeletePaging Brett B
ReplyDeleteIf this is for sale let me know :-)
ReplyDeleteI don't mean to entirely derail the thread, but I am wondering about the ethics of printing the not-legal-at-all PDF of this game that has been floating about the internet for years, and playing the game that way. I don't think I am ever going to be able to afford a copy. This work seems to be dead, never, ever to be reprinted.
ReplyDeleteHow much deference do I owe to the copyright owners? I definitely think that selling a copy on eBay is beyond the pale, but I wonder how different that would be from printing out my own copy and playing it?
Anyone care to enumerate the moral hazards involved?
Out of print for decades and for personal play, you're in the clear.
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