tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179649506981851979.post7189165031485097601..comments2024-01-14T05:19:08.074-06:00Comments on Troll and Flame: Free RPG, Why Buy?Norman J. Harman Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319655075997712313noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179649506981851979.post-82316360317433329232009-06-16T09:22:21.523-05:002009-06-16T09:22:21.523-05:00I am 1000% behind the "Free RPG Movement"...I am 1000% behind the "Free RPG Movement" - a lot more interesting to me than the OSR. Thanks to free printing at work and a Staples close to where I live, I've printed out a metric ton of free RPGs over the last few years, and I keep finding more out there to print, bind, read, and play.<br /><br />I am fully appreciative of the cost that goes into producing a mass-published hardcover game - it can't be cheap and the RPG business isn't an easy one to get into or stay afloat in. However, I find it increasingly difficult to justify buying a $40 softcover campaign supplement, or a $50 "core rulebook" that has lined up behind it a couple hundred more dollars worth of supplements. Mongoose's antics with the Conan RPG are a perfect example of what I loathe these days about the RPG business.<br /><br />And then you compare it all to games like LL, BFRPG, OSRIC, S&W, Mazes & Minotaurs, Barbarians of Lemuria, GORE, Mutant Future, Encounter Critical, Midgard...the list goes on and on. And there's also companies like TLG which, although they're selling you a product, manage to do so at relatively low prices, not to mention the legion of games out there like the Broadsword RPG or the Revised Barbarians of Lemuria, games that you pay for but only cost a few dollars for a PDF download.<br /><br />Now and then I might buy a new RPG - a couple of weeks ago I bought the Delta Green supplement - but I think we are pretty close to the point where you can find something out there for free or for only a few dollars that's just as good, in a workmanlike fashion, as any mainstream published RPG.Jack Badelairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10932441028544500024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179649506981851979.post-71628450101277651632009-06-16T08:18:00.117-05:002009-06-16T08:18:00.117-05:00Thanks for the linkage and the Tip of a Hat!
What...Thanks for the linkage and the Tip of a Hat!<br /><br />What free games can give us all is ideas and by the truck load. For that, we have a merry band of philanthropists to thank.<br /><br />May I sneakily add a link to <a href="http://www.1km1kt.net/community" rel="nofollow">One Thousand Monkeys, One Thousand Typewriters (1KM1KT)</a>, a great place to find free RPGs and for those who write them to hang out.Rob Langhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01377928640392467606noreply@blogger.com