Hi everyone,
Just dropping in to flog my netbooks for anyone interested. All except the Reading List (.doc) are in PDF format. Links are below in my sig. Enjoy!
Awesome stuff!
Just tidied up Appendix D, with better layout for the MU spell table, and an optional table for NPC Magic Users. Also a new bit of old cover art. Cheers!
http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id2273255858.html (http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id2273255858.html)
Thanks bro! This is all awesome!
Is that Michael Jackson as your avatar?
It's an illustration from Alma Mater, a very obscure and quite scandalous RPG illustrated by Erol Otus. I think it predates Michael Jackson.
Thanks very much. Most useful!
QuoteIt's an illustration from Alma Mater, a very obscure and quite scandalous RPG illustrated by Erol Otus. I think it predates Michael Jackson.
Quite right...and perhaps the only RPG to feature schoolyard drug dealing ON THE COVER. Way cooler than a chick in a chainmail bikini any day of the week.
If anyone's a fan of 1st/2nd edition Gamma World, you can grab my two netbooks (Mutant Manual II and the Survivors Field Guide) & other material from The Post-Apocalytic Forge (http://www.paforge.com/)
Another source of free actual old school netbooks is here:
http://gnba.netdemons.com/books/olik/index.html
The links still work, and Olik did an impressive job back in late 90s/early 00s.
Groovy stuff!
That's quite a (useful) bump.
There's also this
http://www.textfiles.com/rpg/
RPG files from the usenet days
Cool, so much stuff! Unfortunately it is all pre OGL and creative commons, so it is legally locked in a certain state, but still useful nonetheless. Kellri's books are being coverted to an OGL friendly format by the folks on K&KA, but his work is more recent.
Maybe the OSR is now in a phase where it looks at the 90s DIY material and there digs for treasure.
Cheers
A Netbook is something I am typing this message on. It's now also a book downloaded online?
Quote from: Mistwell;664221A Netbook is something I am typing this message on. It's now also a book downloaded online?
Yeah, someone creates/compiles information on a subject and the coined term for it is 'netbook.' I'm not positive, but I think that the term predates the actual technological device.
Quote from: Drohem;664223Yeah, someone creates/compiles information on a subject and the coined term for it is 'netbook.' I'm not positive, but I think that the term predates the actual technological device.
Yea, I think the term is over a decade old, dating to when people first started compiling free fan-made material and posting them for download. Or least as far back as when they started doing it on the web, instead of just on bulletin boards.
Quote from: Mistwell;664221It's now also a book downloaded online?
It was six years ago, when this thread was started.
Quote from: Black Vulmea;664244It was six years ago, when this thread was started.
Huh, I had never heard the term. Seems like it hasn't maintained much traction over the years.
Quote from: Mistwell;664255Seems like it hasn't maintained much traction over the years.
The fact that Kindle
et al. made virtually
every book a 'netbook' resulted a speedy obsolescence, I imagine.
Netbooks are from the 90s, they are kind of like modern day grey market pdfs- (a few were officially allowed by TSR it seems). I think the OGL pretty much killed them though (at least for D&D).
Why give the stuff away for free, when you can legally make money off them?
Quote from: Teazia;664389Netbooks are from the 90s, they are kind of like modern day grey market pdfs- (a few were officially allowed by TSR it seems). I think the OGL pretty much killed them though (at least for D&D).
Why give the stuff away for free, when you can legally make money off them?
It was a combination of things: blogging, forums, and self-publishing. All three of these took away one part of what made these kinds of online-sourcebooks work, till there wasn't enough left to make it worthwhile.
Just wanna bump for a cool topic I never saw until necro'ed. I haz nu bookmarks, yay!
(a sticky for cool links sounds good, but i dunno if it'll get cluttered too fast...)