QUOTE: John Wick Presents (published 2016-04-27, Wednesday)
Swashbuckling Adventures PDF Release
Hey everyone!
We've worked with DTRPG and Backerkit to get all the Swashbuckling Adventures PDFs out today. Here's how it works:
1) Sometime today, you'll get an email from Backerkit with a coupon code for the Swashbuckling Adventures Bundle at DTRPG. If you don't get the email by tonight, log in to your Backerkit and the code will be there.
2) Go to DTRPG and find this bundle:
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/181187/7th-Sea-Swashbuckling-Adventures-BUNDLE
Add the bundle to your cart and enter the coupon code. When you check out the cost of the bundle will be reduced to $0.00.
3) Once you've checked out, you can download the files at any time. DTRPG will keep them in your library!
Thanks for everyone's patience with this! We're excited to get these PDFs out to you!
Did the download today. Everything was smooth sailing this time. But it's strange, it seems like the bundle includes everything except the core SA soucebook. Wonder if that was intentional.
To answer my own question, John said on a Kickstarter comment that they don't have the rights to the core book and are in discussions with AEG.
Because the Swashbuckling Adventures book contains the full d20 rules set, it is likely not something AEG could just hand over without getting many lawyers involved for at least a minute; as it is a little-liked part of a now obsolete system and edition, my guess is the cost-benefit for it was not right. I don't hear much hue and cry for "we want d20!"... I think people want the books mostly for the setting.
“Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.”
- H.L. Mencken
Well then you would have a completely redacted book to the best of my recollection. There's definitely nothing ruleswise that pertains to the original rules and all the 'fluff' is catching people who had never played any 7th Sea at all up to the point that it was in the original d10 stuff. Any d20 fluff that is new is in the books that were released in this latest batch.
“Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.”
- H.L. Mencken
The "Swashbuckling Adventures" (1-887953-56-6) corebook discount codes were emailed out to backers by John Wick's crew today (10th May, 2016).
TAJ-07: Technopriest And Justicar Of 7thSea2e
Are those the Crow's Nest publications? I managed to track down #0, but no others.
Wonderful, thank you!