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Post Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 11:13 pm 
 

Since I got my butt canned on DF I've had to become a spectre on the site and watch as threads appeared.  I noticed one on cities and something drew my interest:
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Tarracina Port
Tarracina Port: A city-state for AD&D™ ($24.95) © 1987.  First edition, mint condition, published independently, Very Rare. This city-state is undeniably the finest city-state ever published for 1st-edition AD&D™...
Terror in Tarracina
CS1:  Terror in Tarracina ($8.95) is the first module published in the to Tarracina Port city state module series...
Loki's Wine
CS2:  Loki's Wine ($8.95).  You and your party of intrepid adventurers find yourselves relaxing in a local inn after your latest quest...

Q:  Can we order directly from you?

Yes, you can.  I prefer paypal or contact me by email if you want to snail mail a money order:
Paypal = kentkr@dreamborn.com
Email = kentkr@dreamborn.com

Has anyone recently contacted him and purchased a bundle?  I'm considering this as the packet sounds intriguing.

  

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Post Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:19 am 
 

Not recently, but I bought half a dozen sets from him a good while back to add them to Afterglow2.com... https://www.afterglow2.com/Product/Krumvieda.htm
Kent seemed like a nice enough guy, albeit a bit busy. He prints these off at home on his home printer, and either staples or spiral binds them, and then ships them out. Homebrew photocopy quality stuff. At least that's what the stuff was like back when I was collecting. I haven't been in touch with him since though, so don't know how things are going.
There was also a big fold out map akin to the ones you used to get from JG for City State.

Quality of writing appeared fair at best. Dry, with little real character or distinction from every other homebrew. Loki's Wine as I recall had potential.
There is far greater quality in the OSR than the unsuccessful writers of yesteryear, in my opinion, but as far as 'collectables' go, these tread the line between obscure small press and no-one cares homebrew very finely.

His prices don't seem to have changed much either, if he still holds those prices. For me, being in the UK, they are not worth the shipping. He'd be better served posting them for sale on Drivethru RPG where I'd buy the PDFs and others can buy PoD. They would get better print quality, and he wouldn't need to deal with the shipping.


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Post Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:34 am 
 

That'd be nice.  Well, I'll shoot an email and see anyway.  Thanks for the info.

  


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Post Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2021 8:53 pm 
 

I just got news back and ordered.  Here's the updated prices:

Tarracina Port: A city state for AD&D™ + 1 map ($29.95)
CS1: Terror in Tarracina($9.95)
CS2: Loki's Wine ($9.95)
Extra City State Map ($3.00)
Shipping & Handling ($7.95)



-----------total $60.80

  

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Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2021 4:13 am 
 

Sounds like a good deal.
Let us know what you think when you get it.
As I recall, it's a little dry reading, kind of like the less memorable stuff Judges Guild used to put out in its hay day.


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Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:27 am 
 

I also picked up the Midkemia press stuff (had a few hiccups there but they were delivered via email).  And I saw the judges Guild Wilder lands & CSIO map was available from drivethru.  Gotta say there's a lot of megs packs in each of those.  I honestly just expected a simple color map and that's it.

Anyway, good to see this and Midkemia aren't dead links.

  

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Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2021 12:07 pm 
 

What Midkemia stuff?
Do you have a link?


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Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2021 12:31 pm 
 

Midkemia Press

Pdf only though.

I should mention Pigames.net as they helped meflesh out my Men, Myths, and Magic set (some physical I just couldn't find at the time).  I believe their pdfs do end up on drivethruRPG.  Still it is a nice site when ebay or amazon or Noble Knight fails me.

  

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Post Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2021 11:30 am 
 

It would be interesting to see the quality of one of their paid for PDFs and see if they match mine. I recall have a Midkemia conversation with someone not of this forum back in 2007/8 is, and I don’t recall if I furnished them with PDFs at that time, so I’m wondering if these PDFs are ones I produced, or produced by another source. I’d probably be able to tell. Either way it’s good to see one of the projects I was discussing back then having got off the ground and get PDFs into people’s hands. Even if their efforts then open the door for not paying readers to exchange illicit product online.

I similar conversations with proponents about Role Aids/Mayfair, Beast Ents/Integrated Games, Northern Sages, The Companions to name a few, but to-date I don’t believe any of those sources have brought products to market. The time to squeeze the last drops of money from their IPs (in their original forms) is fast running out (due to age of authors, accelerating availability of illegal PDFs, and the changing of the RPG marketplaces). I’m guessing it’s just too much like hard work to be handed an already created digital product line, and have to go and figure out how to sell it on a ready made marketplace with a million strong established buyers.

I’m guessing those who own these IPs have so much money that a few thousand dollars here and there is irrelevant, and that setting up an account with Onebookshelf just isn’t worth the effort.

Speaking of The Companions, wasn’t there a guy on here that crops up every year to talk about how he wants to bleed some money out of the Islandia series, but pretends it’s for the sake of getting the product into people’s hands because of the love of the product, yet when pushed he won’t do anything like publish the PDFs and put the products out there cos it’s too easy and there’s no personal gain for himself in it. I wonder what happened to him?

Bravo to whomsoever got Midkemia in PDF online. They are good books and well worth the read, some more so than others. Let’s hope the PDFs do them justice.


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Post Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2021 7:31 pm 
 

Well, I can start off with...

Cities:
Book is watermarked with my name & purchase date
It is 86 pages.
1st page is color 4th edition
Stephen abrams & Joe Everson
Crisp black type so the main writing isn't a scan
Some places look to have hotlinking in blue/underline but my acrobatreader isn't registering it going anywhere.
Scanned art in the document looks ok.

Carse:
94 pages
Digital 3rd edition
And done similar to cities.
Very crisp large writing and decent scans of pics/maps
Players maps also pretty clean b/w

Jonril:
131 pages
Digital 2nd edition
And sounding like a broke record crisp & clean

Sunken Lands:
157 pages
?? Edition so 1st digital edition maybe
And crisp and clean

Tulan of the Isles
61 pages
Digital 2nd edition
Just like the rest crisp/clean

Note: at the bottom of each page the books will say:
"This copy of <name of that product> was prepared especially for <name of purchaser> on <date of purchase>

So, that might annoy some that print.  Each also has a note:

"Last Update: <date updated> in this module's case October 16, 2016

So, far more than just a 1:1 scan.  Hotlinks inside don't work or they aren't hotlinks.  Oh well.

Maps for the other products:
Carse:
- dimension: 4400 x 3400 pixels gif
Simple b/w and possibly cleaned up artifacts

Jonril
- dimension: 3400 x 4400 pixels gif
Simple b/w and possibly cleaned up artifacts

Sunken Lands
- dimension: 1018 x 1381 pixels gif
Simple b/w and possibly cleaned up artifacts

Tulan
- dimension: 3252 x 2070 pixels gif
Simple b/w and possibly cleaned up artifacts

There are a few freebies as well

The Black Tower
49 pages
Updated 6/10/97
Looks pretty clean

Towns of the Outlands
76 pages
Copyright??? Dunno
Looks clean

And there is a sample of Cities
Cityboik Sampler
39 pages and relatively similar to the 39 pages of the registered copy.

And there is the encounters program.  The program is free but you need the .lic $2 license and java to get it to work fully.  Now my computer is a HP envy laptop that came with win10 and is updated.  The new java you need (as old isn't supported) is the Java Oracle

The page tells you that edge doesn't suppirt but your programs should or old ie programs (so it says).  
Screenshots:
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Pretty simple and I don't believe you can edit anything in its preset tables.  So, you could construct better but for a quickie it is fine.

Did I post this entire thread in the wrong sections.  I just noticed there was a NON-TSR section.  DOH!!

  
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