In the newsletter from Warlord games they mention that the digital rulebooks for a few of their systems will be 'free' for a limited time.
Free is always good, right ?
– Hail Caesar :
Link : https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/rules-books/products/digital-hail-caesar-rulebook-pdf
– Pike & Shotte:
Link : https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/rules-books/products/ebook-pike-shotte-rulebook
– Black powder:
Link : https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/rules-books/products/digital-black-powder-rulebook-pdf
https://store.warlordgames.com/
ooh, good find. Unlikely to actually use any of these, but I do love me some free!
As I have BP and P&S these will be useful, might as well get HC while I'm about it.
Yes, got the mail as well and ordered them as well.
Good find and immediately used. Not sure if I will ever get to use them but stranger things have happened.
Excellent find
Take care
Andy
Very useful, thanks for the heads up on this.
Anyone any thoughts on why Warlord are doing this?
These 3 rulesets are big glossy books, are they giving away the PDFs so that people then think they must have the book to see everything properly. Or have sales of the books dropped so low that giving away the PDFs is the only way of increasing the number of copies of rules in people's hands?
Last year they offered a lot of their PDFs at half-price and I picked up a number then, mainly on the basis of why not.
Its certainly a way of increasing the number of copies of the rules in gamers' hands, not sure it increases the number of games being played with the rules.
I honestly believe that a lot less of the rulebooks get sold now.
Since they started selling started sets with a smaller copy of the book, there is less need for the glossy tomes. I got the bolt action starter set, so i do not need to buy the big book now.
About the pdf's, I always find pdf's to be costly affaires. Specialist of you already have the book in physical form. Some companies do it better though, like ganesha games.I think their price is on point. ( wich reflects the amount of pdf's i bought from them)
Another thing to bear in mind, on the old warlord games forums there was a thread talking about a new edition of black powder. Don't know if that is a possibility, but maybe this is a strategy to get more people in before they revamp?
New editions are certainly a thought. Although there is so little to the actual BP rules I'm not sure what a new edition would look like!
Yes most publishers don't offer much of a deal for physical and PDF. I quite like the book when first learning rules, which I find hard off just at PDF probably as it is hard to flick through to find bits you have seen. But after a couple of games the PDF is much better for occasional reference, and takes up far less space.
Really can't fathom the logic behind this, but I won't sniff at £60 worth of rules.
I wondered if their loss of data from the GDPR was behind it, as that'll get a lot of people signed back up again!
I heard that as a reason as well
Quote from: fred. on 31 May 2018, 11:38:52 AM
New editions are certainly a thought. Although there is so little to the actual BP rules I'm not sure what a new edition would look like!
Yes most publishers don't offer much of a deal for physical and PDF. I quite like the book when first learning rules, which I find hard off just at PDF probably as it is hard to flick through to find bits you have seen. But after a couple of games the PDF is much better for occasional reference, and takes up far less space.
Same here. Books are great to start with, tablet with pdf's easier to carry around. In some cases, like with SOBH, the rules section itself is small enough to print out for the first game, so that is a viable option. Big books like black powder are not that cost effective to print out though!
Actually, a copy of HC/P&S/BP with all the fluff taken out and just the actual base rules would be dead handy... maybe with the special characteristics section on the end, now I think about it.
Might see how much it would cost to get them printed with Directdox or the like
Quote from: toxicpixie on 31 May 2018, 04:02:22 PM
Actually, a copy of HC/P&S/BP with all the fluff taken out and just the actual base rules would be dead handy... maybe with the special characteristics section on the end, now I think about it.
One of them, possibly HC has a pure rules bit at the back.
I don't recall that so it's probably HC as until yeayerdaybindidntnown a copy of that one :D
Glad to see TPs tablet is as idiotic as mine. Guessing something android because that looks like the sort of sh*t mine will vomit up. When I'm deleting a predictive text failure it deletes a couple of letters, then instead of deleting the next letter, just repeats the entire misspelt word.
Quote from: toxicpixie on 31 May 2018, 08:02:53 PM
I don't recall that so it's probably HC as until yeayerdaybindidntnown a copy of that one :D
Yeah, that was... special.
"Until yesterday I didn't own a copy of that one".
Thanks, thumb fingers and tech :D
Quote from: petercooman on 31 May 2018, 07:37:56 AM
Another thing to bear in mind, on the old warlord games forums there was a thread talking about a new edition of black powder. Don't know if that is a possibility, but maybe this is a strategy to get more people in before they revamp?
So, warlord games just announced black powder 2 on facebook. Told you so... ;D
Really :o?
Yes. It's just BP. Not P&S or HC.
Quote from: Dr Dave on 10 August 2018, 08:16:48 PM
Yes. It's just BP. Not P&S or HC.
Well, in the comments someone asked if they would do a pike and shotte 2 as well. The answer was "wait and see"
picture of the cover:
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I was about to post that when I saw this post :D
Yeah, looks very pretty. Wonder what they've done, I rather got the impression they thought the rules were essentially perfect and you just needed to jiggle the specials a bit?
Not that I will buy the 2nd edition book, but I hope the keep the fluff in one section and put the rules in another, to make it easier to find a rule when you need it.
Yesterday their online shoppe was still happily flogging edition 1 at £30 with not a mention of its coming obsolescence.
So...
Does anybody know what burning issues are fixed in episode 2?
Similar to Steve3,
I'd welcome a more thorough segregation between the rules and fluff.
A 7 page rules summary (as in Hail Caesar) would be even better.
Better still would be the 7 page summary as a separate publication, with a free fluff supplement you can hurl directly into the dustbin.
But they'll have to convince me there's some seriously original and improved content if they think they're getting another 30 Soverigns of my business.
I have a horrible feeling they might soon up-version the Codices Supplements