My books just landed on my desk at work. Trying very hard to do some actual work instead of poring over the books. I can confirm that they are truly things of beauty, however.



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Lucky! Can't wait for mine to show up!

Greetings

Good to hear. Hopefully my hard copy will appear in the reasonably near future. This would be good as my son has borrowed the pdf ...

Regards

Edward

Oh my goodness Oh my goodness...damn my heart started racing what's wrong with me....

Wait where are you, and how did you order, cause those things matter to those of still waiting, will your order at Cubicle 7 change from Viewed to shipped or does nothing happen at all? Just wondering?

Mine arrived, too...standard C7 pre-order. Really beautiful books.

Mr Nice Postman brought it today. Have been putting off reading the pdf until I had the hard copy in my hands. It is a work of beauty and drop dead gorgeous.

I'm in the UK and I preordered before Gencon.

Greetings

My copy was waiting for me when I arrived home from work today. It looks really good.

I'm in the UK and ordered it around the time of Gencon I believe. Note that my C7 account shows it as 'Viewed' so did not update for despatch (mind you neither did my order for Legends of Anglerre last year).

Regards

Edward

Am I safe in assuming that those of us on the left side of the Pond are still in for some wait time? I figured the European market would get them sooner, but I would be chuffed if we in the US were to get our deliveries fairly soon. I seem to remember there being some statement about the ship being delayed from Asia that the books were coming on, but I can't swear to that.

Ah they are the first Pre Order then before Gen Con, I pre ordered mine after Gen Con so I guess I would be waiting later, I'm gonna cry now and sleep for a while and maybe have some coco, yeah I know I'm pouting, but I'm damn cute when I pout.

I pre-ordered mine during GenCon (it was hearing all about it on the various forums directly from the people there that persuaded me...like I needed much of an excuse)...so I'm guessing they are sending out all the pre-orders now.

Just received an email from Angus, the US pre-orders through C7 (didn't reference other pre-order methods so can't speak to that) shipped Thursday and Friday past. If your wondering like me how long it my take to land on your doorstep, the US shipments originate in Norcross, Geoergia.

Awesome! Thanks for the heads up. I might actually have my physical books by the game I am running in about a week and half!

My copy arrived this morning (I'm in northern Ireland). Have to say that its one of the nicest looking rpg's I've ever seen. Aces and Eights is the only other one I can think if that looked as nice.

Aces and Eights looks nice, but the system seemed a total mess to me. I gave up on it.

TOR on the other hand is very playable!

Oh I agree! Aces and Eights best bit - the shooting mechanic was fun in theory but because they only included frontal silhouettes, in practice even that was a bit crap! A great looking book though

so jealous so jealous...one day my books will come? Monday i bet Monday...

They made some silhouettes available as a Pdf to add variety, but can't recall if they were all front facing or not.

Shot clock was a nice idea though, but gunfights took forever!

I downloaded a free PDF that adapted the Hollow Earth Expeditions rules to a wild west setting and used that for a while.

Aces & Eights is still a beautiful book though. But beauty is only skin deep! And no matter how the pretty the book (or woman), if the content does not hold your interest, it's a doomed relationship!

It seems like Kenzer abandoned A&8s pretty quickly, or at least had 'more interesting' stuff to release? The much vaunted GM screen didn't materialise, and the adventures they did publish weren't really connected to the campaign presented in the main rulebook, in fact some of them would have been pretty hard to introduce into it. Lots of cool ideas and an initial enthusiam from the creators which soon petered out. I haven't even started the campaign yet because I was waiting for the screen and possible town sourcebook. The townbook they did publish doesn't even appear on the campaign map. Ok, it's easy enough to drop in there, but it just goes to show it was all very haphazard and that there was no planning involved.

About the sideways silhuettes, there are some in the Shootist's Guide, plus some from above and below, and some on horseback etc. Should be easy enough to do your own as well? Thi spack also introduces 'the big game shot clock' which is a smaller version of the regular one. To fit a rider and his/her horse in a a4 silhuette, you need to scale it down and therefore you need to have a smaller shot clock as well. The mind boggles how they didn't figure this out from the beginning, the original silhuettes are far too big to begin with. If they had thought it through and had done a smaller one form the go, you wouldn't have two shot clocks and two sets of silhuettes.

Needless to say I am pretty mad at Kenzer about all this, but to bring this back to topic, my account on C7 shop still shows my TOR order status as 'viewed', so no joy for me...

Is yours one of the priority pre-orders?

Mine arrived too (Budapest, Hungary) - it was a "normal", non-priority pre-order. And althought I read the pdf versions, I was still amazed by the quality of the paper version. Simply beautiful.

IT'S HERE!!! Italy, normal preorder. Funny thing: it's my wife's birthday and I received a gift!

Verderer,
The Viewed status on you account may not change, mine never did and my game got here on Monday, I'm sure you'll get asap. Its a beauty.

That's encouraging to hear.

Grumble grumble, Swedish postal system. Then again I have a report to write tomorrow so it's probably a good thing it hasn't arrived :-)

My 'hope' remains strong, sillyxander. The shadow shall not claim me just yet.

You're probably right about the status, I got older orders that still read as 'viewed'... but I received them ages ago.

I'm waiting for the books to turn up here in Sweden too. I'm about to lose my mind waiting. Had the books actually been the One Ring I most certainly would have succumbed to its allure. I have no patience and no discipline right now.

And I feel like Bilbo after his party. As I was leaving for uni just after lunch today I checked the post box and found a package from Cubicle 7. I held it a for few seconds, then went back indoors and placed it, unopened, on the kitchen table before catching the bus. I fancy I'll find a (game about) a golden ring inside :-)

Wow, that's like a critical success on some sort of willpower roll! Not only did you leave it at home, you didn't even open it!

@takei
I never pre-ordered the game so I'll just have to wait for it to show up in the store. Man, I'm so excited!

Great, the Swedes have it, the Hungarians have it, do we Finns get it? Nooo....

Getting closer though

Well, the Germans have it too - at least my copy arrived today! I keep my fingers crossed for all of you who are still waiting

Best
Tolwen

Woot, packet arrived this morning!

And we may have our game night today, I wonder if I have time to read the character creation...

Still nothing here in Sweden, and I was dead sure it would arrive today. Bummer

It came to me!
It's mine.
Just mine.
My precioussss.

At last it came to Finland.
I'm greatly happy with the qualities. The full color pages look much nicer than the PDF!
Time to prepare that online game!

My amazon.com order arrived today.

Now I just have to wait for Genesis Descent, and every One Ring supplement. :-P

Yay, it arrived today!