Want Metamorphosis Alpha 1st Edition in hardcopy?

According to an announcement made by Craig J. Bain of WardCo. in Jim Ward’s Q&A thread over at Dragonsfoot, you can now purchase reprints of Metamorphosis Alpha through Lulu.com. The reprint is, Bain says, “the 1976 edition with a short adventure included and the corrections - the same as the RPGNow edition, minus the hex-sheet page at the back of the book.” It retails for $14.99.

New Lulu PDF Trial

As I mentioned, there will be issues involving the current crop of Stonehell PDFs available on Lulu starting in the middle of next month. I've been making the necessary changes behind the scenes to (hopefully) allow for an uninterrupted availability of those files. To make sure all is working as intended, I'll need a little help.

If you have a moment to spare, could you please download Stonehell Dungeon Supplement One: The Brigand Caves to your computer, mobile, or whatever medium you use to view such files? Please use the link in this post. This is not a new edition and is theoretically identical to the original. However, you may wish to save it in another location on your device so as to not overwrite your current working version just in case there is a problem.

Let me know if there are any issues in downloading or reading the PDF. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Nevermind

After successfully running the PDF of Stonehell Dungeon through the eBook Wizard, I’ve since downloaded the converted file to discover that it was converted into…a PDF.

When I originally uploaded my PDFs, there was no eBook category available to list them under so I chose to label them as digital files (others who put PDFs on Lulu prior to my own may have done the same). It seems that Lulu is using the term “eBook” in a generic sense and not a specific format for tablets, Kindles, Nooks, etc. I’m both relieved and puzzled at this, but unless there are other factors I’m unaware of, I don’t think there will be a problem down the line.

Stay tuned to be safe, however.

Strange Things Are Afoot at the Double Ell

I received an email yesterday from Lulu.com informing me that they “must retire certain products and services that have not proven to be as popular with our community of customers as we initially thought they'd be. As a result, we will no longer be offering your Multimedia for sale on Lulu.com.” Maybe you got one too.

The short of it is that Lulu will no longer support and sell digital projects such as CDs, DVDs, images, and (here’s what affects me) “digital files.” This means that all the various PDFs I have on Lulu will removed after September 18th. This confused the hell out of me at first, but I now see that they're trying to push these projects into an eBook format.

Lulu offers a free eBook Wizard service to convert PDFs and other files into that format, and it seems that I’ve successfully managed to convert the two PDFs I’ve used as trials. I’ll admit that I’m not quite up to speed on the differences (if any) between PDFs and the various eBook formats and readers so I’m not certain what this going to mean down the line. In a perfect scenario, all my PDFs will convert, you’ll be able to read them in whatever format you choose, and I’ll just have to alter the links to the new eBook versions and we’ll all get along fine.

The worst case is things go all pear-shaped and I have to stop selling my books via Lulu completely, which would likely mean that I start investigating other options like going through RPGNow or perhaps even another game publisher.

I’m not going to sweat this too much at the moment as I’ve got other irons in the fire and a few months to worry about it, but I thought I’d bring it up now to keep you all abreast of possible changes in the future. If you haven’t bought or downloaded any of the various Stonehell PDFs but keep meaning to, my suggestion is to do so before July 19th, which is the date when the first wave of alterations to the Lulu Marketplace will begin and prohibit the editing of currently offered digital files. After that, I can’t be confident what will happen over there at Lulu.

You will all be informed as more on this develops.

25% Off Stonehell Dungeon (and other fine OSR tomes)

I should mention that Lulu is having a 25% off sale through May 31st. Use the code CYBERMAY305 at checkout to save on all your Lulu purchases to help kick off the summer. Or as I like to think of it, "Buy 4 Stonehell Dungeons, Get the Fifth Free!" Use those pretty pictures over there on the right to speed up your shopping day.

Save on Stonehell Dungeon and Other OSR Stuff

If you haven't already taken advantage of the Game Master's Day Sale over at RPGNow or DriveThruRPG to save you a few bucks and you'd like to complete your collection of books written by me, Lulu is also offering a sale through March 7th. Enter the code GIANT305 at checkout to save 20% off the cover price of Stonehell Dungeon or any other Old School goodies available through them.

Alternate Links to Free Stonehell PDFs

I was alerted today that there are some issues downloading free PDF files from Lulu and that my own Stonehell Dungeon preview and supplement one are amongst those affected. So, until Lulu fixes the problem, I'm hosting both of those files on my Mediafire site. You can find them each at the links provided below:

UPDATE: Lulu has since corrected the issue and the below products can be downloaded again at my storefront. However, I will continue to host the PDFs on my Mediafire site as well, so the below links should remain good barring any unforeseen changes. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls Preview
or
http://www.mediafire.com/file/057h6hcm89hhmnl/sh_preview.pdf


Stonehell Dungeon Supplement One: The Bandit Caves
or
http://www.mediafire.com/file/il7vtd7nb96k2m8/sh_supplement_one.pdf