I have always been fascinated by the CoC RPG (Chaosium Inc.), but due to a lack of interest in my group, I need to rely on playing solo adventures. Now, you will say “If it is solo, then it is not an RPG anyway.” And yes, you are right! A group’s trials and tribulations and adventures being run by a good GM cannot be beaten by any solo experience. Still! If you want your fix, you need to get it somehow. And Chaosium got this! So, in the 90s they published a series of “Alone…” books (Alone against the Dark, featuring a huge adventure in which you travel around the globe, burning through 4 pre-generated investigators, Alone on Halloween, Alone against the Wendigo), in addition, a series of solos set on Grimrock Isle was released.
Now, I did not buy them, because, back then, I just did not have time to do any RPGing. Now, 20 years later, they are unavailable anymore. I checked everywhere, and I could only find pirated PDFs on the web. In addition, I found (and bought) a print-on-demand version of Grimrock Isle!
So, I wonder: what is keeping Chaosium from either selling the PDFs for downloading (I would pay!), or (even better) as print on demand?
The same goes for many other Chaosium publications which are out of print now (Horror on the Orient Express, anyone). I’m sure many people would love to get them/download them and pay for it. But no, they remain unavailable. I don’t understand why a company would forego that kind of easy revenue.
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