What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?

[aramis erak]

The Dragon Magazine Archive CD is really good. It has the first 250 issues compiled but wow it has gotten expensive. Think I paid $30 in 2000 or so, give or take.

Because it was illegally compiled. WotC cannot rerelease it. WotC, and TSR before them, didn't buy all the content; some (like KoDT) was first run licensed. Kenzer Sued, and won.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I never heard about any lawsuits. I don't think the Dragon Magazine Archive sold all that well, but I can't say for sure. I never met anyone else who owned one, and I seem to remember it was always on the shelf at Media Play. Poor sales may have been the reason a Dungeon Archive never got made. I don't remember what the MSRP was for the Dragon Archive; it wasn't ridiculously expensive but wasn't cheap either from my recollection. I looked online but couldn't find what it originally retailed for.

I bought one back in the day. Still have all the files. Wonderful product! A real doorway into the past, what with all the original articles and ads. A lot of it still holds up IMO.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Because it was illegally compiled. WotC cannot rerelease it. WotC, and TSR before them, didn't buy all the content; some (like KoDT) was first run licensed. Kenzer Sued, and won.

Glad I got one while it was available.

 

[R_J_K75]

A real doorway into the past, what with all the original articles and ads. A lot of it still holds up IMO.

I agree that a lot of the articles still hold up. I got plenty of ideas to surprise my players with. I still have the files from the CD somewhere too. I had a subscription for many years from the mid 90s through mid 2000s. They were never the same once they stopped printing physical magazines and I stopped reading it.

 

[Echohawk]

Kenzer Sued, and won.

This is technically not true. While Kenzer certainly had a very strong case, the matter never went to trial and Kenzer settled with WotC out of court, so there was no trial to "win".

 

[haakon1]

This is technically not true. While Kenzer certainly had a very strong case, the matter never went to trial and Kenzer settled with WotC out of court, so there was no trial to "win".

My understanding is Kenzer was allowed to do things like “Little Keep on the Borderlands” for Hackmaster because of the settlement.

That could be my personal meatware hallucination of an “I wonder if” converted to “naw, dude, your guess is so rad, it must be right”.

 

[Echohawk]

My understanding is Kenzer was allowed to do things like “Little Keep on the Borderlands” for Hackmaster because of the settlement.

I don't think you hallucinated that. My understanding of the settlement was that it included a seven year license to produce both D&D branded Kingdoms of Kalamar products and comedy/parody versions of AD&D products for Hackmaster.

 

[TheAlkaizer]

Backed the Demonic Grimoire for OSE. Really stoked for it. Now I want an Undead book right here and right now.

 

[Alzrius]

I don't think you hallucinated that. My understanding of the settlement was that it included a seven year license to produce both D&D branded Kingdoms of Kalamar products and comedy/parody versions of AD&D products for Hackmaster.

And the various D&D limited series comic books that they released during that time, or so I'm given to understand.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Backed the Demonic Grimoire for OSE. Really stoked for it. Now I want an Undead book right here and right now.

I'm honestly surprised their Demonic Grimoire jumped ahead of the Necrotic Grimoire, which I've heard was coming for far longer.