# Pet Peeve: Unpurchaseable Historical RPGs tags: #thoughts #game/rpg/donjon #game/rpg/capes *Pet Peeve of the Moment:* That a whole lot of indie RPGs are no longer purchasable. I don't mean aren't available in print. I mean they are almost impossible to find for sale or are of questionable nature if you do, like *[[Donjon]]*. And *[[Capes]]* ![[Donjon (cover).jpg|300]] ![[Capes (cover).jpg|300]] This came up because I wanted to make a reference to it in the context of referring to something else I was working on. It was a well-regarded, critically nominated RPG in 2002. It exists and existed in PDF form. There's absolutely no reason that it shouldn't be available along with every supplement ever put out for it (all two of them, I think). To this very day, I have the PDF itself in my library. Good luck with that. There is a link to purchasing it on Indie Press Revolution, but Hades only knows if that sales front even works anymore. I believe it should, but no promises. They show the Pak B1 for it, but it's not purchasable. They don't even make a mention of *The Green*, which was a sort of light scenario framework. I literally ran this game with a bunch of pretty hardcore gamers at an all-night gaming convention in a local shop in 2002-2003, and it was a huge hit. Then it seemed to fall off the face of the planet, which is a goddamn shame because it's brilliant work. RPG creators, in particular, pay attention. Nothing you do should ever go out of print. Always make sure that it's available for somebody somewhere. Make sure those shops stay up, even if you want to get out of the business, even if you would prefer that no one ever remembered that you ever wrote anything. Everything you create and put out as a product is going to be somebody's favorite somewhere, at some time. It might not be when you publish it. It might not be for a decade. It might not be for two decades after. Somebody, somewhere, at some time is going to love what you did and want to feel like they were part of it by discovering it and sharing it with their friends. Let them. I'm always kind of disappointed when I go digging in my library for some of the things published in the early 2000s, in particular, because you just can't buy them anymore, and that's a real loss. It's a terrible failure for some of these designs, which remain fresh and interesting even today, sometimes even more relevantly so. Yet here we are.