Re: Re: Convention fundraisers

From: Tony Davis <gallows_brother_at_CWutVZ-rUK76o_QNmXWKw_5sgtzK3HWTyVOkCxm0W4mMLFptHG7Lh43ARm38>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:54:33 -0700 (PDT)


Well it's obviously time to start a 'zine, hippies!

glorantha to the masses.

FUDGE Glorantha.

Interesting information in photocopy format.

Let a thousand flowers bloom.

Hippies.

t.

> I confess, I was originally greatly upset at the
> fact that the price for
> a copy of "Our Glorious Empire" was over $400 (US)
> by the time I even
> knew this thing existed. I've always had a problem
> with the fact that
> much Gloranthan esoterica was scattered to the four
> winds, as it were,
> and impossible for all but the hardest of the
> hardcore to get. Then, I
> got over it.
>
> I don't mean I disagree with those who feel
> slighted. I mean that I
> can't be upset about it because it's always been
> this way.
>
> I think the decision to publish this in such limited
> quantities was
> catastrophically bad whatever the reasons for it
> were. The parties
> involved should have anticipated that it would cause
> hard feelings, as
> it clearly has. Now they may not have cared, but I
> prefer not to think
> that of people I regard as friends (if only distant
> friends), but I'm a
> person who believes in not causing such negative
> reactions if there's
> any way to avoid it.
>
> And, please, no comparisons to the Mona Lisa. The
> painting was produced
> in circumstances that made it, essentially,
> impossible for there to be
> more than one. This isn't the case with anything
> published today. I
> trust that the folks who are upset by getting shut
> out of a copy of OGE
> wouldn't have been upset if their copy had been a
> reprint (second
> printing, etc) even at of lesser quality and
> production values. I didn't
> even buy a hardcover HQ until my softcover started
> wearing out and the
> chance came to pick one up on Ebay.
>
> But imagine if you were buying a set of
> encyclopedias, and then come to
> find out that volume "X" was only available to 15
> people. Is the
> information in volume "X" essential? Probably not.
> Can you, in one way
> or another, get the information from somewhere else?
> Sure. I still think
> you'd have every right to be annoyed at the
> publisher for such a
> decision.
>
> Will I ever get a copy of OGE? Nope. Will I ever
> get a copy of the 2nd
> age Heortland book created for Convulsion? Nope.
> Will I eventually get
> the same material in another volume(s)? Probably.
> Does that make up for
> the fact that I'm being treated like a second class
> citizen because I'm
> not an "insider" or wealthy enough to travel to
> Germany or England and
> pay whatever the auction price for either book
> was/will be? Nope.
>
> What's done is done. I can only hope that this
> episode helps those
> involved see that this was a mistake, if only for
> the hard feelings it's
> caused.
>
> Brian Curley
>
>
>
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