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I have spent years curating collections for the simple reason that the history of our hobby is eroding. We remember the titans— D&D, Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, Shadowrun . They are safe. They have corporate backing and fan bases large enough to sustain them through the apocalypse. Xforce | 2024 Autodesk Upd
I get messages constantly from new Game Masters who are bored with the current mainstream offerings. They are tired of the "Crunch vs. Narrative" binary. They dive into the archives and find a copy of Over the Edge or Feng Shui , and suddenly their eyes are opened. They realize that narrative-first gaming existed decades before PbtA (Powered by the Apocalypse) was a glimmer in a designer's eye.
The links will break. The hard drives will fail. The corporate legal teams will send takedown notices. It is a game of whack-a-mole that I have played for a long time.
This is the crux of the matter. When a game is "abandoned"—when the rights are in limbo, the company dissolved, and the stock depleted—it effectively ceases to exist in the marketplace. It becomes a ghost.
If we don't scan them, bind them, and seed them, they turn to dust in a landfill. And once they are gone, they are gone forever.
There is a secondary benefit to this digital grave-robbing: discovery.
If you’re reading this, you probably know the feeling. You search for a specific supplement from the mid-90s, only to find the publisher went bankrupt in '98, their website is a 404 error, and the physical copies are selling for $300 on eBay to collectors who will never slit the shrink-wrap.