Now that's alarming.Oh! I purchased it but it isn’t in my library either. I did download my copy. I wonder if they refunded me?
Not really, see here for details. Without the box, you would probably not be able to get a good price for the three booklets.
Possibly a SNAFU. They didn't realize that the earlier printing had the issues with infringing copyright.LOL. Why would they even bother. They can't have made much from a $10 PDF that was up for maybe 10 hours.
DriveThru has not always. Notably when WotC pulled their PDF catalog for years you could not redownload any of the ones you had bought.Now that's alarming.
Checking my library right now, and I still have it listed, with no problem downloading. That's usually how it is for DriveThruRPG; I've picked up products that were later pulled, and they've always allowed me to re-download them even after they were taken down.
Things like that are why I love reading about the early history of D&D. I've been devouring various books about the early days of the hobby over the last few years, and it's truly incredible (in a good way) how different a lot of things were back then.There's so much that is so weird and fun and inexplicable in this document. Like the completely offhand comment that the referee should include some robots and cyborgs on the encounter chart, or that a 20::1 player to ref ratio was about right.
Now I need to dig up some discussions by the old timers what actual play was like during development.