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<blockquote data-quote="JustinA" data-source="post: 3684173" data-attributes="member: 51618">Wow! I opened this thread completely at random and literally could not have received a more welcome surprise. It also couldn't have come at a better time: I've been going through something of a melancholy funk this past week as far as my creative life goes, and seeing my work praised in such unexpected and effusive fashion has done wonders for my soul.Thank you very much.It's interesting you should mention plague. A few years ago I wrote up several submissions for Atlas Games' EN ROUTE II. A couple of them (&quot;Lure of the Serpent&quot; and &quot;Purple Storm&quot;) got accepted, but my personal favorite at the time -- a piece called &quot;The Black Mist&quot; -- was rejected.&quot;The Black Mist&quot; featured a magical plague designed specifically to work around the typical limitations of disease in bog-standard D&amp;D and produce an effect much like the black death... but a black death spiced up in all the ways that only true fantasy makes possible. Looking back over the manuscript now, I can see why it was rejected: I struggled long and hard to figure out how to squeeze the entire scenario into the word count for EN ROUTE II and the result is disjointed and kind of scant on detail.But now that you've brought this little scenario back to the forefront of my mind, I think I know what my next RPG-related project is going to be. Right now I'm wrapping up the final touches on the forthcoming Rule Supplement 1: Mounted Combat, but once that's done I think a quick clean-up and expansion of The Black Mist is in order (if it can be so managed).$2.00 is the permanent price for the PDF edition. A print edition is available from Lulu.com (see the link below) for $6.49.Now that RPGNow and DriveThruRPG have finished their database merge, I believe RPGNow has adopted the old DTRPG practice of listing the price of the print edition and then showing you how much you're saving by buying it as a PDF. I think that's the &quot;mark-down&quot; that you're seeing.Justin Alexander<a href="http://www.thealexandrian.net" target="_blank">http://www.thealexandrian.net</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="JustinA, post: 3684173, member: 51618"] Wow! I opened this thread completely at random and literally could not have received a more welcome surprise. It also couldn't have come at a better time: I've been going through something of a melancholy funk this past week as far as my creative life goes, and seeing my work praised in such unexpected and effusive fashion has done wonders for my soul. Thank you very much. It's interesting you should mention plague. A few years ago I wrote up several submissions for Atlas Games' EN ROUTE II. A couple of them ("Lure of the Serpent" and "Purple Storm") got accepted, but my personal favorite at the time -- a piece called "The Black Mist" -- was rejected. "The Black Mist" featured a magical plague designed specifically to work around the typical limitations of disease in bog-standard D&D and produce an effect much like the black death... but a black death spiced up in all the ways that only true fantasy makes possible. Looking back over the manuscript now, I can see why it was rejected: I struggled long and hard to figure out how to squeeze the entire scenario into the word count for EN ROUTE II and the result is disjointed and kind of scant on detail. But now that you've brought this little scenario back to the forefront of my mind, I think I know what my next RPG-related project is going to be. Right now I'm wrapping up the final touches on the forthcoming [i]Rule Supplement 1: Mounted Combat[/i], but once that's done I think a quick clean-up and expansion of [i]The Black Mist[/i] is in order (if it can be so managed). $2.00 is the permanent price for the PDF edition. A print edition is available from Lulu.com (see the link below) for $6.49. Now that RPGNow and DriveThruRPG have finished their database merge, I believe RPGNow has adopted the old DTRPG practice of listing the price of the print edition and then showing you how much you're saving by buying it as a PDF. I think that's the "mark-down" that you're seeing. Justin Alexander [url]http://www.thealexandrian.net[/url] [/QUOTE]

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