Free (DRM-Free PDF) The Dying Earth RPG w/ Jack Vance bonus [Fantasy Roleplaying]

[ATDrake]

So, once upon a time, the late Jack Vance (ISFDB, Wikipedia) wrote a highly-acclaimed and very influential post-apocalyptic fantasy novel, which later expanded into a series, and later acquired an RPG based upon said series.

The Dying Earth RPG, said RPG based upon said series, contains a great deal of supplementary info about the background workings of the novels, which may be of interest even to Jack Vance fans who don't care about roleplaying and may also act as a bonus appendix for the Gentle Reader on a nostalgia binge.

This is offered free courtesy of the Jack Vance official website and their publishing partners Pelgrane Press, as a thank-you to their customers.

Free throughout August, I think @ JackVance.com (DRM-free PDF), where you'll have to sign up for an account if you don't have one already and then visit your User Information page to see the download link. Actually, I've no idea if it's available to non-pre-existing customers and I'm not making a new account to check, but the fact that they put up a front-page newsblurb announcing it probably means that it'll be for everybody.

They've also a lot of Vance's backlist written across multiple genres available as e-books (some in French translation, even!) in their webshop (and will give you a DRM-free MultiFormat bundle of ePub/Mobi upon purchase) and the Omnibus editions seem to be a considerable savings on the also-individually-available titles, but if money is a consideration, the prices are much better @ Kobo where they are couponable (at least if under the "Spatterlight Press" imprint).

Description
This month, we are offering all Spatterlight customers something rather splendid – an eBook version of the award winning tabletop RPG, The Dying Earth. This offer will go out to all customers. The book is a game, but it’s also a repository of locales, spells, characters and even recipes from The Dying Earth series of books.

The Dying Earth RPG is supported by an array of books, including the revamped Dying Earth Revivification Folio which updates the RPG, The Compendium of Universal Knowedge – a cyclopedia and atlas of the Dying Earth, and The Gaean Reach RPG which is set in Jack Vance’s SF cosmos.

[crich70]

Thanks. I had no problem downloading it. I don't recall having been a member before and the site accepted my email addy as not having been used so I assume I haven't been so it looks like anyone new or not can get it.
Edit: The description answers the question, but it is easy to miss it.

This month, we are offering all Spatterlight customers something rather splendid – an eBook version of the award winning tabletop RPG, The Dying Earth. This offer will go out to all customers. The book is a game, but it’s also a repository of locales, spells, characters and even recipes from The Dying Earth series of books.

[curtw]

Te registration system doesn't work at all for me. I get no errors, but no positive acknowledgement that an account has been created. Is it supposed to send a confirmation e-mail?

[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by curtw

Is it supposed to send a confirmation e-mail?

Two years ago it did, and I had to manually activate my account from the link in the confirmation.

But I've no idea if the procedure has changed in the meantime, although the store software does seem to be the same.

[curtw]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Two years ago it did, and I had to manually activate my account from the link in the confirmation.

But I've no idea if the procedure has changed in the meantime, although the store software does seem to be the same.

Thanks. I was finally able to trick it into sending a confirmation email by using the 'forgot my password' link. I'm guessing that might mean I already had an account, and that the registration page was neglecting to throw an 'email address already in use' error. Got the book.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by curtw

Thanks. I was finally able to trick it into sending a confirmation email by using the 'forgot my password' link. I'm guessing that might mean I already had an account, and that the registration page was neglecting to throw an 'email address already in use' error. Got the book.

Or it could be that instead of your inbox the email went to your spam folder. You might want to check there if you haven't already to see if that's what happened.

[curtw]

Originally Posted by crich70

Or it could be that instead of your inbox the email went to your spam folder. You might want to check there if you haven't already to see if that's what happened.

Oh yeah, I checked spam folder. Been searching it every day, in case I won the mini cooper roadster from priceline.com sweepstakes. I guess it's time to give up on that dream.