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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GrumpyOldMan" data-source="post: 4062098" data-attributes="member: 16469">I must, to some extent, disagree.Very few releases: true, but there are several factors to take into account.First, Hârn is currently in schism, creator N Robin Crossby had a falling out with Tom Dalgleish, the head of Columbia Games. The issues appear to be creative (Robin likes putting accents (he prefers the term diacritic marks) to place names, Tom does not) and financial (each claims that the other owes them money). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  As a consequence there is a dispute between the parties. Briefly, Robin claims that CGI are in breach of contract and have no right to publish any Hârn material and Tom claims that Robin can’t revoke CGI’s rights without first using an agreed grievance proceedure.Second: N Robin Crossby is unwell and has been for several years. He is currently undergoing another regime of chemotherapy.The release schedule is not, however, ‘one release every couple of years or so’. Since ‘the schism’ Robin has been releasing his own material independently, as ‘Kelestia Productions. So there are two (tiny) companies releasing material. Kelestias stuff is produced by Robin and a few of friends, it’s done on a shoestring budget and releases have been badly hit by Robin’s illness.The ‘worst’ recent year for releases (I’m defining ‘recent’ as: since 2000) was 2006, which had only three releases from CGI and one from Kelestia. Most years it’s 6+ articles.Of the CGI products one, Gardiren, is, probably at the top end of CGI prices: $19.99 for 38 loose leaf sheets detailing a town & castle. It was all new material.The outrageous price of $30-$40 for a binder with ‘a few dozen punched sheets in it’ presumably refers to one of the Kingdom Modules. The two available are each $29.99, the smaller (Kanday) is 52 pages.Most of the stuff coming out is NEW. A lot of it was based on old, out of print material. But, the Kelestia stuff is ALL new and the CGI stuff, for the past two years has been ALL NEW.The last thing which could possibly be described as a ‘reissue of older books’ was City of Tashal. It took a 12 page article from two Out of Print publications (Cities of Hârn and Son of Cities) and turned it into a 70 page highly detailed city. That’s over 50 pages of NEW material. Fan work has further expanded Tashal to over 100 pages!I entirely agree.Of course, most of the fans and many of the forum members are also the writers of official material.</blockquote>

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