FASERIP is now on DriveThruRPG

As the title says, FASERIP has now been approved by DriveThruRPG and you can download it here.

Unlike Dark Dungeons and Blood, Guts & Glory, which are both free by default but allow you to pay something for them if you want to as a tip or gratuity (they’re set as “Pay what you want”), FASERIP is set to be a free download only and doesn’t give you that choice. The reason for this is because of the way the artwork is licensed – it doesn’t allow me to charge money for the game. Although technically setting it up as “Pay what you want” still allows people to get it for free, I think it comes too close to charging people for me to be comfortable doing that while sticking within the spirit of the artwork’s license.

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FASERIP is on its way

I’ve cleaned up the PDF version of FASERIP (there were a couple of minor errata to fix) and uploaded it to DriveThruRPG. It should be available for download in a few days.

And They’re Up

The first of the Gurbintroll Games books are now active at DriveThruRPG. These are Dark Dungeons and Blood, Guts & Glory.

Over the next week or two I’ll make the others available.

Getting organised…

Okay, so I’m starting to get things organised now. I’ve set up “Gurbintroll Games” as a publisher over at DriveThruRPG, and I’ve uploaded my first two games – Dark Dungeons and Blood, Guts & Glory – and submitted them for publication approval.

Once they’ve been approved and made public I can set up their respective pages here with links to the DriveThruRPG pages for them.

By the way, in case anyone reading this is wondering why I’ve swapped “Gratis Games” for “Gurbintroll Games” and moved my website, the reason is rather prosaic and mundane I’m afraid. My old “Gratis Games” website was hosted on the free webspace that my ISP provided. My ISP has stopped providing that so I needed to move all my stuff. Unfortunately, there’s already another “gratis games” website out there, and there’s already a “gratis games” blog here; so I needed another name. “Gurbintroll Games” still has the attractive alliteration that “Gratis Games” had, and the word Gurbintroll had no hits on Google so it makes the site easy to find.

And who or what is a “Gurbintroll”? I got the word from an 1984 Jean Michel Jarre album called Zoolook. The album was an early experiment in music created by sampling and contains vocals in over 25 languages that have been layered and manipulated to form the music. At one point during the album it sounds as if someone is saying “Gurbintroll”. I’ve no idea what the person is actually saying or what language it is in, but the word (as I heard it) has stuck with me ever since, and I imagine a Gurbintroll to be some kind of peaceful Finno-Scandinavian rock troll, similar to Moomintroll.

Welcome!

Welcome to Gurbintroll Games, the new home of Dark Dungeons, Blood, Guts & Glory, FASERIP, and the other games by me – “Blacky the Blackball”. There’s nothing to see here yet – so this is just a placeholder.