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Old 09-11-2008, 05:14 PM   #1
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GURPS Vorkosigan
http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/vorkosigan/

What is the status of GURPS Vorkosigan this long long long long long long long anticipated book?

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Old 09-11-2008, 05:28 PM   #2
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The most recent news about Vorkie was in this Daily Illuminator.
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Old 01-20-2016, 01:19 AM   #3
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The book is back as a PDF!
From a Traveler thread
http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.p...1&postcount=12

I figured this was news worth repeating here.
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Old 01-20-2016, 01:53 AM   #4
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The book is back as a PDF!
From a Traveler thread
http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.p...1&postcount=12

I figured this was news worth repeating here.
Hmm. At this point I'm divided between "Finally, snatchable for the collection" and "Hmm, $30; what makes it cool and who can sell me on it again?".

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The most recent news about Vorkie was in this Daily Illuminator.
The link seems to be not quite in working order. This one seems to be working.
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Old 01-20-2016, 03:00 AM   #5
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Hmm. At this point I'm divided between "Finally, snatchable for the collection" and "Hmm, $30; what makes it cool and who can sell me on it again?".

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My thoughts too.
I want to support it but never read the books and pretty sure Ill never use it or anything in it that I cant get from one of my other books.
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Old 01-20-2016, 03:07 AM   #6
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I don't want to search or resurrect another thread so post my question here.
Would it be ok to print covers of some of my PDFs and use them as wrappers for things like my day planner?
The idea would be an easy way to advertise with a day to day item.
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I don't want to search or resurrect another thread so post my question here.
Would it be ok to print covers of some of my PDFs and use them as wrappers for things like my day planner?
The idea would be an easy way to advertise with a day to day item.
You're granted explicit permission to print a copy of any PDF you buy, so just printing the cover would fall under that.
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Hmm. At this point I'm divided between "Finally, snatchable for the collection" and "Hmm, $30; what makes it cool and who can sell me on it again?".
The book does have it's issues (mostly technology things like the vehicle descriptions text and the entries in the vehicle tables not matching, armor being unlikely/impossible to penetrate with top of the line military weapons and such), but the setting descriptions and such are top notch.

Also to note is that the actual setting is very gameable in that:
The scale and whole premise is that individuals and small groups of people can make a great difference
The technology is easily understandable even for non tech types being not that far removed from ours in most things.
The chosen space faring technology creates borders, slow information travel and fairly long travel times. This creates situations where the PCs are it, they cannot hope to get help from home in most cases and might struggle just ot get a message out.
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Hmm. At this point I'm divided between "Finally, snatchable for the collection" and "Hmm, $30; what makes it cool and who can sell me on it again?".
I was aware of the books, but hadn't read any of them when this was released - I bought it, loved it, and then bought and read all the books at about 1 a week. - It is exactly my kind of science fiction, so it played to my interests anyway.

weby did a pretty good and succinct summary. The RPG book strikes an excellent balance of enough detail to be very playable, but no so much as to tie you down, or overly spoil the books if you haven't read them.
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You're granted explicit permission to print a copy of any PDF you buy, so just printing the cover would fall under that.
Thank you.
I thought it would be ok but since that's not really the intended use it was better to doublecheck.
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