From our Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: How do I get a free PDF with my Chaosium book purchase?
A: Purchasers of physical products at Chaosium.com get the PDFs for free. When you add a physical book to your shopping cart, we add the PDF at no extra cost:
Q: If I buy just the PDF from Chaosium.com and later want to upgrade to the physical product do I get the discount?
A: Yes!
A: There are several reasons why this offer is only for Chaosium.com purchases:
Q: If I buy a physical book from a friendly local game store, or online seller, or Amazon, will you give me a free copy of the PDF?
A: We don't offer free PDFs for purchases made at Amazon, or other online sellers, or made at stores that are not part of Bits and Mortar initiative.
Q: I want to buy my Chaosium products at my Friendly Local Game Store and get the PDF included in the price.
A: Then make sure your purchase is from a FLGS that belongs to Bits and Mortar.
Along with many other TTRPG publishers, Chaosium is part of Bits and Mortar, the pro-retailer, pro-brick-and-mortar, pro-PDF initiative. This means if you buy a Chaosium physical book from any of the hundreds of participating local game or book stores world-wide, you'll get the PDF included at no additional charge, direct from the store.
(If your FLGS is not part of Bits and Mortar, do ask them to join up as a retailer – it's free!)
Q: How do I access the PDFs I have purchased from Chaosium.com?
A: You can download a PDF immediately on purchase. Later on you can download your PDFs again at any time via your Chaosium account.
Q: How do I get a free PDF with my Chaosium book purchase?
A: Purchasers of physical products at Chaosium.com get the PDFs for free. When you add a physical book to your shopping cart, we add the PDF at no extra cost:
A: Yes!
- If the PDF is released first, you'll get the full price of the PDF off as a discount when the print version comes out. We'll send you a coupon by email on the day the physical book is released.
- If a book is already out in print/PDF and you've bought the PDF, we'll still deduct the cost of the PDF when you buy the physical book from Chaosium.com later on. Drop Dustin a note at customerservice@chaosium.com and he'll send you the discount coupon.
A: There are several reasons why this offer is only for Chaosium.com purchases:
- DriveThruRPG doesn't provide us with sufficiently detailed buyer data to automate the process. This means every coupon transaction from DriveThruRPG – literally hundreds when we launch a new product – would have to be processed manually. We don't have the resources for that.
- Furthermore, the revenue from a PDF sale at DriveThruRPG is significantly less than the sale of the same PDF product on our own website. This means we would either have to offer a lower discount (which would be confusing) or wear the cost of the difference (which we can't afford).
Q: If I buy a physical book from a friendly local game store, or online seller, or Amazon, will you give me a free copy of the PDF?
A: We don't offer free PDFs for purchases made at Amazon, or other online sellers, or made at stores that are not part of Bits and Mortar initiative.
Q: I want to buy my Chaosium products at my Friendly Local Game Store and get the PDF included in the price.
A: Then make sure your purchase is from a FLGS that belongs to Bits and Mortar.
Along with many other TTRPG publishers, Chaosium is part of Bits and Mortar, the pro-retailer, pro-brick-and-mortar, pro-PDF initiative. This means if you buy a Chaosium physical book from any of the hundreds of participating local game or book stores world-wide, you'll get the PDF included at no additional charge, direct from the store.
(If your FLGS is not part of Bits and Mortar, do ask them to join up as a retailer – it's free!)
Q: How do I access the PDFs I have purchased from Chaosium.com?
A: You can download a PDF immediately on purchase. Later on you can download your PDFs again at any time via your Chaosium account.
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