It means being in the top 0.25% of all paid selling items on the site. The actual book is out (because a digital book is still a real book) but if you mean the dead tree version, it's in process right now but will take a few weeks for proofs to get to us so they can be checked and approved for sale.
Seriously, my sister's novel is a best seller on Audible (audio is a digital format) as well as Kindle (another digital format) and the hardcover is releasing in softcover later this summer.
I'll let her know that the checks she got for the Audible and Kindle sales were not for a "real book" in your expert opinion.
Yeah I gotta agree here: digital is real. I've got over 500 books in my Amazon Kindle and another 300+ in my Nook, not to mention all the RPG books I buy, These days, buying paper is a statement, or a matter of lifestyle choice, with RPGs being the only exception for me....it's still easier to reference a physical book at the game table and less distracting not having a laptop or tablet open. That said, every time I read something on paper I get annoyed at the fact that I can't adjust the font to suit my needs (eyesight) or turn on a backlight to read.
The Shrike
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By Leo HuntPublished by Joel HinesOSELevel 1? The Shrike is a world of
decay – rusted iron, crumbling stone, saltwater, blood, and fog –
surrounded by a ro...
DemonWars Gazetteer (2004) - second copy
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From the web:
Time to bring knowledge to the world...
The world of Corona is in a time of change. Its people must learn to live
with each other and work...
Random Links for 10/10/2025
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- AD&D Asassination. Seems straightforward in the PHB, and then the DMG
comes and takes it away. Thanks, Gary.
- Next game is in 3 weeks.
Community Greyhawk – Battle for the Borderlands
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Today we talk about Battle for the Borderlands by Jarvis (or Jay?) Blueter.
This is a… well… it’s weird. You actually get two versions of the pdf, one
of w...
What is the point of the OSR?
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Over on Reddit, Kaliburnus asks What the point of the OSR is? He concludes
his post with some questions.
So, honest question, what is the point of OSR?...
October Horror Challenge - V/H/S: Halloween (2025)
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SynopsisSix tales of Halloween terror.ReviewThis film follows the
franchises standard format. There are six found footage short films with
one framing sho...
Ten Marlinko Townies To Annoy Your Party With
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Mother Feketa
Mummified, animate matriarch who rules her tenement block from a tub of
heated mud. Gives quests in exchange for...
Random stopwatch encounters
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This is a small improvement over an old idea.
The DM rolls 1d100 in secret. Then sets a stopwatch for that many minutes.
When the time is over—there IS an ...
Smithers, who is that Horse God from the Dawn Age?
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Glorantha is a famously deep but daunting setting. I won’t try to summarise
it here, but open up any of the books and you’re sure to be swarmed by
proper...
A slice of 1970s RPG life (IN SPACE!)
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*While I have unfortunately never gotten to roll dice with him, I knew that
my uncle played D&D during its very early days. He suppposedly even wrote
for a...
Tombs: Fantasy Made Mortal...
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So Gregorius 21778 has released *The Tomb of Ferkhat the Dreaded* for Blood
of Pangea, complete with an excursion into an Egyptian-inspired burial. We
lo...
A review of The Golden Peaches of Samarkand
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by Edward H. Schafer
tldr; this book has a whole sub-section on Dwarfs
Its 1962 and Edward H Schafer delves into ream upon uncounted ream of
scholarship ...
Ethyria & Why Theros is Awesome
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I have had exciting sheduling dramas with this game. We had an illness and
a date conflict so missed a whole moth. I looked for s...
On Bounty, Alert & Defenses
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Available Now!
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Follow, Twitch, Support, Donate to end Cancer (5 Star Rating) s...
DTRPG Loot
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These just arrived for me today from DriveThruRPG.
They took about a week to get here, much faster than used to be the case,
as DTRPG now has PoD resou...
The Pre-Launch Page Is Now Live!
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It’s finally here! The card game nearly 8 years in the making has made it
to the stage of pre-launch on Kickstarter! Check out the pre-launch page
here and...
A Thousand Cuts
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Some readers here may or nay not be aware of the Simple Sabotage Field
Manual. If you're interested in knowing what you'll do should your country
ever be...
Unboxing the 2025 D&D Starter Set
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I grabbed the 2025 Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set at Barnes & Nobles on
Friday. An 'undented' copy.
Because it is a Starter Set and meant to assist he...
Musings on the OSR Blogosphere and Forums
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Link to discussion There are some posts on the historical OSR blog scene
that I’ve read recently from the Grumpy …
Continue reading →
How do you do piracy… in SPACE!?
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Interstellar space travel in Iridium Moons was always going to be a form of
hyperspace jump like in Star Wars or Traveller. Simply because it’s the one
for...
Free GM Resource: Freep!k Icon Generator
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[image: Free GM Resource: Freep!k Icon Generator]
Last week I mentioned a *secret project* and while I'm not going to divulge
the project yet, I am bringi...
The line has been crossed
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I hope all you fuckers enjoyed your Blue Sky. It is coming. You reap what
you sow.The right to free speech is a hill I will die upon.Slight update:
Anyone...
Zock Bock Radio return engagement
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German AD&D superfan and podcast host Settembrini (who already had me on
his show a couple-three years back) recently completed a two-year-long run
thro...
Greyhawk News You Can Use - Harvester 2025 Edition
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I’m well-overdue for another Greyhawk news roundup, and a recent post by
/u/talktoh in /r/Greyhawk prompted me to complete catchup on Greyhawk news
for the...
Tomb of the Blind and Deaf Dead
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So the cat is out of the bag thanks to Tobias Schulte-Krumpen, who posted
the above image to the Lamentations of the Flame Princess facebook group. I
...
Eyes of Idola, Part 2
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This is Part 2. Here is Part 1.
*Concept 1: Entering the Dungeon*
Descending the stairs into B1, the party reach rooms that are dark,
crowded, flooded, a...
[BLOG] News on the March! Episode X.
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This post continues the series of brief play reports I have been posting on
Discord. This does not cover every single session (sometimes, recon and
setup...
A long overdue hobby update!
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Welcome back to the Vault everyone! 2025 is going by in a blur; I last
posted in February, almost started a post in March and now it's the end of
May. W...
Pulp: Adventure Location: Trindade & Martim Vaz
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History is fractally interesting. Start examine any event, or following any
citation, and interesting facts emerge. But some places, for whatever
reason,...
Playing at the World 2E V2 Arrives
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With the release of its second volume, the second edition of *Playing at
the World *is finally complete. The two books combined total well over
1,000 ...
Blogs on Tape season 6 has begun!
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Hi everybody! Its been a minute. How are you? Everything is awful all the
time? Horrors never cease? You’re being driven mad by the weight of the
unfathoma...
Articulations
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Creating house rules, custom rules specific to a local group or campaign,
has been common throughout the history of D&D. What makes an effective
house rule...
Writing playlists for all occasions
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Hello again! Going off the idea of inspiration elaborated on by the prior
post, I also have music playing while I write my various games and fiction
pieces...
The Tarot of Pips
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Somewhere in your dice collection is a die like this one, the humblest of
dice. Although you don't know it, this small white die carries with it a
secr...
Pirates and Necromancers, a Play Report
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Over the Thanksgiving weekend we did a lot of gaming ranging from
“off-table” domain level stuff to some solo adventures to spell and magic
item rese...
It's been a bit
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Hey everyone, I hope you are doing well! I've had a lot going on and
haven't had much time to blog lately. Heres a recap of gaming events and
other st...
*'s in SpaaaaaAaaaace
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A lot of SF (including a certain 2D6 RPG grandaddy) deal with ancient
aliens taking humans from Earth and dropping them, fleas and all, on one or
more w...
Last move - to self-hosting!
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As my vote regarding Substack in the “marketplace of ideas”, I’m moving to
self-hosting.
I’m now at (and hopefully staying for a long time at)
Blog: ht...
Clean Your Room
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Looking back at my little blog here. That last post… wow, I was having fun
playing WOW Classic! That was August of 1999 and I was having a blast… it
was ...
Steve Jackson Interview
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James Maliszewski recently did an interview with Steve Jackson over on his
Grognardia blog. Steve chats about the beginnings of The Fantasy Trip and
upcomi...
ToAD Monster of the Week: Crocoman
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Now that I'm back doing the blog thing I thought I would use Tome of
Adventure Design to create monsters for The Black Hack.
Using the monster tables in th...
Strange, Dangerous, and Inhuman: The Fey and Fairie
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When I was a boy I loved fairy tales. Jack and the Beanstalk, Puss in
Boots, Rumpelstiltskin - I devoured all of it. My fascination that there
was a strang...
Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule
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*As you know, I run public classic Dungeons & Dragons games at **The Loaded
Die**/Metro Detroit Game Night's Board Game Nigh at **Dragonmead**, in
Warren...
Fiction in Airhde
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On a whim this weekend, I picked up some fiction off the TLG store. *A
Houseless God & Other Tales* and *The Mirrored Soul & Other Tales*, both by
the T...
Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map
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I mentioned in my last post how I was tweaking and reworking parts of my
Ravensburg setting. Today I streamlined the city map. The old map had lots
of redu...
The Withered Crag available now
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I just enabled the sale of the PDF version of The Withered Crag at
DriveThruRPG a few minutes ago, and the custom print version will be
available startin...
Annihilation Rising Goes live
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The latest in Fail Squad Games’ Quick Kick projects has gone live and needs
your support!! This project is only running 11 days and ends on 5/28/2019!
...
James's Celebration of Life
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We could not have asked for a prettier day for James's service. It was a
bit chilly and windy but gorgeous. A heartfelt thank you to all that joined
us tod...
Trap Tuesday: A step back
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I will get back to Tomb of Horrors soon. I found a topic that was
interesting enough to take a break. While interacting in a 5E group on
Facebook I talked ...
Let's Talk About Pacing!
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The idea, I think, is that the RPG is ultimately about the long game. Even
rolling back to the early days of Basic & Expert, the goal of the player
was...
Profane and Profound Prep Part 2
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This is part 2 of my work to edit my magic items for a DMsGuild release,
along with adding cursed items along the way. Here is part 1. Bone of a
Saint 8000...
Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask.
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A little note since people have asked me about this. My video channel's
*not* an advertising platform, so I'm not available for hire if you want to
promote...
New website!
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Slowly but surely, all the content here will make its way — in updated
form! — to my new website: timbannock.com. For fairly obvious reasons, that
site wil...
Please Update Your Link!
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If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is
out of date.
Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com (RSS feed is
h...
Total Sales for WB:FMAG
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Hi Folks,
It's been a long time since I provided an update for the sales of White
Box: Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game.
*LULU*
Print: 396
PDF: 433
*OBS*...
How can We Destroy this Campaign World?
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d12
1. You must trick a bard into strumming the *Chords of Fate* on the *Lute
of Annihilation*
2. Legends tell of thermonuclear weapons beneath megadunge...
Mord Mar - Session 5
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We had another successful delve into the dungeon yesterday. The delvers:
Moira, the Magic-User
Radovan - Human Cleric (of Odin?)
Khazgar Stonehand - Dwarf ...
Bundle of Fantasy Age
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Bundle of Holding: Dragon Age/Fantasy Age: Available until March 12. PA
Presents: Fantasy AGE Freeport live play Green Ronin in 2018 The Fantasy
Age RPG ma...
New Free PDF Module: The Hyqueous Vaults
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A new dungeon module—written in celebration of OSRIC's 10th Birthday—by
Rebecca Dettmann, Allan T. Grohe, Jr., Jimm Johnson, Matthew Riedel, Alex
Zisch, a...
Swords & Wizardry Light: Session # 6
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Two months after our last session (thanks to things like 8th grade finals,
a 4 year-old's birthday and party, Father's Day, etc.), we finally had our
next ...
1. What does it mean to be or go "gold"? 500,000 records sold?
ReplyDelete2. When is the actual book coming out?
It means being in the top 0.25% of all paid selling items on the site. The actual book is out (because a digital book is still a real book) but if you mean the dead tree version, it's in process right now but will take a few weeks for proofs to get to us so they can be checked and approved for sale.
Delete"A digital book is a real book"
DeleteGrow up
Join the 21st century
DeleteSeriously, my sister's novel is a best seller on Audible (audio is a digital format) as well as Kindle (another digital format) and the hardcover is releasing in softcover later this summer.
I'll let her know that the checks she got for the Audible and Kindle sales were not for a "real book" in your expert opinion.
Yeah I gotta agree here: digital is real. I've got over 500 books in my Amazon Kindle and another 300+ in my Nook, not to mention all the RPG books I buy, These days, buying paper is a statement, or a matter of lifestyle choice, with RPGs being the only exception for me....it's still easier to reference a physical book at the game table and less distracting not having a laptop or tablet open. That said, every time I read something on paper I get annoyed at the fact that I can't adjust the font to suit my needs (eyesight) or turn on a backlight to read.
DeleteI eagerly await the print+PDF version.
ReplyDelete