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[sapphire_wyvern]

Many people have suggested putting OOP sourcebooks on the SR website. While this is an idea I support, I'd like to suggest a slight variant which is more likely to be of financial benefit to FanPro.

I recently got into Exalted. The single biggest selling point of Exalted, to me, was the Tomb Of Five Corners - a free (!) set of quick-start rules and a mini-adventure, with pre-generated characters. I grabbed a copy from the game store, played it within two weeks, and the following day bought the core rulebook - my first ever White Wolf product.

Considering that the rest of my RPG collection consists of a lot of SR and a single, solitary, D&D 3.0 PHB, that's a noticeable expenditure on my part. Now I am looking at buying more Exalted stuff.

I recognise that FanPro probably doesn't have the resources to print and distribute a free set of quickstart rules. I remember seeing a quick-start SR module, and I'm pretty sure it was 3rd edition, on the shelves a few years back, but for the expense I didn't think it was really worthwhile compared to actually buying a core rulebook. Since it hasn't been reprinted, my guess would be that not many other people thought it was worthwhile either.

However, the Tomb of Five Corners is available in PDF format from White Wolf. SO SHOULD THE SR QUICKSTART GAME BE!

Unlike the older sourcebooks, I expect that the quickstart module is still likely to be available in an electronic format. IIRC, it's fairly short too.

There is no better method to convince people a game is good then getting them to play it, and there is no easier way to do that than to let them try before they buy. OOP sourcebook PDFs are only useful to people who already play the game. A PDF of the quickstart rules would help people get *into* the game.