Does Chaosium hate money?

**Wired** · 11th April 2008, 02:13 PM

I'll be the first to admit that I don't know all that much about how Chaosium operates and who owns what rights (to scenarios/campaigns) and so on, I'm very new to the hobby and even newer to CoC. So if my questions seems ignorant it's because they are!

Anyway, I keep hearing a lot of good things about "Beyond the Mountains of Madness", "Masks of Nyarlathotep", "Horror on the Orient Express" and "Day of the Beast" to name a few. But every one of them are impossible to find new, why is that? I just don't get why reprints aren't being made and sold.

Sure, I know Ebay exists but it's not really a serious option, each of those books are going to end up costing at least $60-70, probably more, and that's not even including shipping to Europe (another $20-or-so) and then there's always customs to take into consideration. In the end I'd probably be looking at about $100-150 or so for each of those books, it's just not an option (for me).

If reprints were made of each of those campaigns I mentioned before I'd buy a copy of each day one, and I can't be the only one.

edit: spelling

**Nescio** · 11th April 2008, 02:24 PM

There was re-release of "Beyond the Mountains of Madness" not long ago - has it sold out again?

**DeepFinnOne** · 11th April 2008, 02:33 PM

They could at least sell them as PDFs, if they want to avoid the printing costs. I for one would love to get my hands on them but I'm not going to pay 100-200$ / book.

**Evans** · 11th April 2008, 02:37 PM

I must admit the only thing that realy anoys me with Chaoisum is the cost of there postage and packaging to Europe.

**Artwork** · 11th April 2008, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by Nescio

There was re-release of "Beyond the Mountains of Madness" not long ago - has it sold out again?

They ran out almost immediately from what I could tell from the site. I tried to get an order in, but I was too slow.

I believe I read on Chaosium's site they are looking to get a new batch of them printed....

Sure is a popular item!

**DeepFinnOne** · 11th April 2008, 03:25 PM

I just did a quick search on Masks, Orient Express, Beyond and Kings and only ones I can find are couple on eBay for 100+ $ each. How big are Chaosium prints? 100 copies?

**Wired** · 11th April 2008, 03:31 PM

Originally Posted by DeepFinnOne

I just did a quick search on Masks, Orient Express, Beyond and Kings and only ones I can find are couple on eBay for 100+ $ each. How big are Chaosium prints? 100 copies?

lol, don't be ridiculous, I heard it's about 50

**Evans** · 11th April 2008, 03:32 PM

I know Express is very expensive but I'm not sure about the others.

http://search.ebay.com/search/search...ess&category0=

Ok I do agree thats sought of steep (you could buy an authentic Clark Ashton Smith for that price.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ksid=p3907.m29

No more than expected and allready heavily bid upon.

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Masks...7928391&sr=8-1

Ok that is a blow (though I only realy need one piece of information from it)

**Artwork** · 11th April 2008, 03:42 PM

As of April 11, 2008, but with it being from Australia, the currency change and cost of shipping probably would jack it up

Horror on the Orient Express

**Evans** · 11th April 2008, 03:44 PM

Same one I found I think.

**DeepFinnOne** · 11th April 2008, 03:53 PM

Heh, I bet Chaosium guys keep couple copies and then sell them on eBay for $$

I guess I have to go with Shadows of Yog-Sothoth which I can get for ~8$ from drivethrurpg.

**Orsson** · 11th April 2008, 04:16 PM

I recently got in touch with Chaosium about some of their reprints and found out the following:
-BtMoM will be RE-reprinted sometime this summer
-Escape from Innsmouth will potentially be added to the drivethrurpg.com selections

So good news on both of those fronts!

[EDIT: wrote Masks, but meant Escape]

**FunGuyfromYuggoth** · 11th April 2008, 04:17 PM

There was a related discussion here with a response from publishers.

**dragonstout** · 11th April 2008, 04:58 PM

Yay! about Escape from Innsmouth. I've got the old one, and I really desperately want that new adventure from the new one, but there's no way I'm going to pay those ridiculous prices for it!

So why *don't* they put a lot more of their stuff online as PDFs for sale? That'd practically be no risk for them, no cost of printing, no cost of making a new book!