New on RPGNow: Pax Dei

We have a bit of a conundrum with our older out of print titles, in particular the ones that we inherited from previous publishers of the Ars Magica game line: we never possessed the digital files. So while I'd love to be making these books -- especially the ones that sold well while we had them -- available as PDFs, it's not as simple as grabbing a disk from the archives and going to work.

I recently acquired a scanner with an automatic document feeder, though, and I'm trying the approach of just scanning the old books and making PDFs from the resulting files. It's still a lot more time-intensive, and the files are considerably larger than usual, but I'm interested to see if the results are of interest to enough people to make it worth doing more.

The first book I've done is Pax Dei, which has been out of print for several years and was a solid seller when it was available. You can click on the link in the header above to get to the listing on RPGNow (though as I type this on Saturday afternoon, the file has not yet been OK'd and activated by RPGNow staff). If this goes over well enough, I'll budget some time in the future to doing the same with some books like The Maleficium, perhaps even some Lion Rampant-era titles like Covenants or even the Bats of Mercille!

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  2. If you post the Bats of Mercille, I will pay $20 for it, no questions asked.

    I would also like to add, that the original Bestiary should be posted. Although I like the current one, the old one had its good points too. I unfortunately lost it at a convention.

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  3. Bats, please!
    --
    Sheila

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  4. Hmm. I'm sensing a consensus.

    Boy, it'd be great if I could sell Bats PDFs at $20 each. I don't think I could do that with a straight face, though...

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  5. Tales of the Dark Ages is great. Especially Tongue of Vipers (and Ghoul of St-Lazare which is already avaible). -- Paradigmatic

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  6. Tales of the Dark Ages is readily available on E-bay. I even bought a replacement copy at a game store not that long ago. The same cannot be said for Bats and Bestiary 1st edition.

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