Need a Copy of "Good Deeds Gone Unpunished" [Archive]

GamerJudge

2020-12-22, 08:55 PM

Hello,

I've gotten one of my friends into OOTS recently. She cranked through all the books in short order and immediately after became a Patreon patron. Her favorite character by far is O'Chul, but she came on too late to get a copy of "Good Deeds Gone Unpunished". It's out of print. I'm trying to find a copy that already exists somewhere that we can purchase her for Christmas. I've been searching and calling around without any luck, so I'm coming here, hoping to find somebody willing to part with a copy. Help an old fan help a new fan out?

Thank You,
Gary

facw

2020-12-22, 10:22 PM

Don't have any good leads for you. I did some searches but the only thing that came back was on Amazon.es: https://www.amazon.es/dp/0976658097 (even there it's listed as a pre-order with availability December 30th). There was also a search site that returned a result in Australia for ~$100US, but wouldn't show me which store without creating an account so no joy there, and in any event, at that price you'd be better buying a cheap tablet and the ebook.

Hopefully you can find someone willing to sell.

NerdyKris

2020-12-23, 12:09 AM

It's available as a PDF on Gumroad. https://gumroad.com/richburlew

If she wants a physical copy, you could always pay to have it printed and bound.

Ellen

2020-12-23, 01:21 AM

Is Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tales ever going to be available as a PDF? Or reprinted? It's going for $159 on Amazon, which is a bit steep.

137beth

2020-12-23, 01:31 AM

Is Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tales ever going to be available as a PDF? Or reprinted? It's going for $159 on Amazon, which is a bit steep.

IIRC, the Giant said there would be a PDF some time after the print run sold out. The print run is now sold out, but he hasn't announced a PDF for SSaDT, so either he changed his mind, or he is still working on it, or I just misremembered.

Yanisa

2020-12-23, 01:36 AM

Is Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tales ever going to be available as a PDF? Or reprinted? It's going for $159 on Amazon, which is a bit steep.
Latest news:

From Twitter, 10/7:

https://twitter.com/RichBurlew/status/1313985755765710849

However, A Monster for Every Season has been postponed a bunch of times now... So I can't give any real estimate and that quote is also already a few months old.

GamerJudge

2020-12-23, 01:29 PM

Thanks! No joy on the amazon.es link. I contacted the dealer behind it and evidently that's up in error. They did put me in touch with a place called Noble Knight Games, but that was also a bust. The hunt goes on!

Could you please provide that Aussie site, or the search site that led you there? I would really appreciate it.

Don't have any good leads for you. I did some searches but the only thing that came back was on Amazon.es (even there it's listed as a pre-order with availability December 30th). There was also a search site that returned a result in Australia for ~$100US, but wouldn't show me which store without creating an account so no joy there, and in any event, at that price you'd be better buying a cheap tablet and the ebook.

Hopefully you can find someone willing to sell.

Rogar Demonblud

2020-12-23, 02:30 PM

Noble Knight remains a general clearinghouse for most things RPG related, so you might want to consider wishlisting it there.

Ionathus

2020-12-23, 04:35 PM

It's available as a PDF on Gumroad. https://gumroad.com/richburlew

If she wants a physical copy, you could always pay to have it printed and bound.

Seconding the PDF. It's not ideal, but it will give you the most crucial part! I've enjoyed every OotS PDF story I bought and intend to do the same with Snips, Snails, & Dragon Tails.

GamerJudge

2020-12-23, 05:33 PM

This thing you have said, I have done this thing.*

*Original response was "DONE!", but that is too short to get past the forum filters.

Noble Knight remains a general clearinghouse for most things RPG related, so you might want to consider wishlisting it there.

Algeh

2020-12-23, 11:59 PM

skim172

2020-12-24, 12:16 AM

I was looking for a copy just a couple months ago and I remember it being very difficult to find. I did eventually find a used copy for just slightly above list price. Now, the only results I can find are pages where it's listed out of stock and reddit threads asking where they can find it. I must've grabbed up the very last copy available on the internet.

I was about to suggest tracking down a library near you that had a copy, borrowing it, and then claiming you'd "lost" it. However, a search of WorldCat suggests no library has a copy of the book. And that's the world catalog.

Based on this, I feel safe to say that this book is rarer than pieces of the True Cross. This suggests that there exists some vast, shadowy Templar-ish organization that is hunting down and destroying copies of the book, and silencing owners so effectively that nobody is aware of this sinister conspiracy. Perhaps the book contains a secret cypher which, if comprehended, would reveal a secret that would threaten our very understanding of human life itself.

They are already among us, watching us - probably on this very forum. Monitoring our words to see who is showing signs of being Touched by the epiphany, so they can direct their assassins to cut down these unfortunate souls.

The only question is: Why are they doing this? Do they seek power? Or do they wish to protect us? Or perhaps they merely wish to protect themselves, from knowledge they fear to know?

The book is the key. Read the book. The secrets must be in there.

JustIgnoreMe

2020-12-24, 06:07 AM

Perhaps the book contains a secret cypher

You know too much.

Emanick

2020-12-24, 10:54 PM

Based on this, I feel safe to say that this book is rarer than pieces of the True Cross. This suggests that there exists some vast, shadowy Templar-ish organization that is hunting down and destroying copies of the book, and silencing owners so effectively that nobody is aware of this sinister conspiracy. Perhaps the book contains a secret cypher which, if comprehended, would reveal a secret that would threaten our very understanding of human life itself.

That's ridiculous. I own the book and have never been threatened in any way, nor have I have seen any evidence that other book owners have been disappearing. The only thing in it that's even slightly close to being a cipher is the part where Hinjo's junk is about toindfdswnnvernvek4;w/w44+#)$

137beth

2020-12-24, 11:54 PM

I have the PDF: am I at risk of this secret conspiracy too?

skim172

2020-12-25, 05:49 AM

I have the PDF: am I at risk of this secret conspiracy too?

Hehe, no. I was just kidding, there is no risk - it's just a joke. You shouldn't take what I said seriously, my cyber-friend - I'm just some simpleton on the internet who says stupid things and does not have a trustworthy personality. I'm probably on drugs or something, which explains why I lived in this tiny flat with a weird address that took forever to find. So I was on drugs yesterday and I had a hallucination that made me say crazy untrue things about the Book. But I'm totally recovered and alive now and I made a mistake. The Book is normal.

I hear the pdf version is really great. I think more people should read it. I hear there is negligible risk of the pdf revealing our secrets. People who own the Book should purchase the pdf and read that instead of the Book.

The Book is completely fine, though. It's normal. The pdf is just better. All current owners of the Book should buy the pdf now.

Remember to enter your current addresses when you buy the pdf. For shipping.

(edit)
There is no secret Conspiracy.

137beth

2020-12-25, 06:12 AM

(edit)
There is no secret Conspiracy.

Hmm, I just noticed that no one with a ♀️ marker on their profile has posted in this thread. If there was a secret conspiracy related to an OOTS book, it probably wouldn't allow girls (https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0549.html). COINCIDENCE? Could it be that everyone posting on this thread is part of the conspiracy?

Of course, if a girl does show up and post, that doesn't guarantee they aren't in the conspiracy either, given that SOME secret clubs are like the Sapphire Guard and do allow girls.

Peelee

2020-12-25, 11:10 AM

There is no secret Conspiracy.

That sounds exactly like what someone in a secret Conspiracy would say.

DataNinja

2020-12-25, 11:22 AM

Hmm, I just noticed that no one with a ♀️ marker on their profile has posted in this thread. If there was a secret conspiracy related to an OOTS book, it probably wouldn't allow girls (https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0549.html). COINCIDENCE? Could it be that everyone posting on this thread is part of the conspiracy?

Of course, if a girl does show up and post, that doesn't guarantee they aren't in the conspiracy either, given that SOME secret clubs are like the Sapphire Guard and do allow girls.

Aw man, where can I join? I wanna be in a conspiracy. :smalltongue:

Lord Torath

2020-12-25, 07:54 PM

Has there been any statement on whether GDGU will be reprinted, and, if so, any kind of timeline on it? It's the only one I don't have a copy of since I filled in the rest of my collection this year during the sale. Other books haven't sold out so quickly, so I didn't realize I'd need to order it right when it came out to get a copy... (I don't want a PDF. I know my organizational skills, and they're heavily skewed toward being able to find physical objects rather than data files 20+ years later.)How handy are you feeling? Feel up to making your own?
DIY Guide to Binding PDFs (https://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=36713)
DIY Guide to making a Hardback Rule Book (https://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=27992)

Algeh

2020-12-26, 01:04 AM

How handy are you feeling? Feel up to making your own?
DIY Guide to Binding PDFs (https://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=36713)
DIY Guide to making a Hardback Rule Book (https://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=27992)

For now, absent a declaration that it definitely won't be reprinted, my plan is to wait until the current/final book is available to buy in print and check back to see if they've done a GDGU reprint at a time that would allow me to buy both and save on shipping. (Or next time some other side book gets published, perhaps related to other Kickstarter stories.) I'm not going to fuss with printing and binding from a pdf when being patient will hopefully work at some point.

Peelee

2020-12-26, 01:10 AM

Aw man, where can I join? I wanna be in a conspiracy. :smalltongue:

Oh, I've got a dozen at any given time. Would you be interested in "the moon is a hologram"?

DataNinja

2020-12-26, 01:18 AM

Oh, I've got a dozen at any given time. Would you be interested in "the moon is a hologram"?

Nah, sorry. That one would just make me sad that there's not common available hologram technology...
Thanks for the thought, at least. :smallbiggrin:

pearl jam

2020-12-28, 05:32 AM

Just bought the pdf because I, too, failed to buy this one before it went out of print.

The preface from Thog has my dying. lol

snowblizz

2020-12-28, 07:59 AM

This suggests that there exists some vast, shadowy Templar-ish organization that is hunting down and destroying copies of the book, and silencing owners so effectively that nobody is aware of this sinister conspiracy.

No it doesn't, no we don't and we *definitely* do not exist.

Sincerely,
The Order of Suppressing the Order of the Stick Books (that as mentioned definitely does not exist)
TOOSTOOTSB (naturally, the acronym also does not and never has existed)

p.s. where can I get an Utterly Dwarfed book? Everyone who has a copy please post your contact information and when you can be found to be at your most vulnerable

Peelee

2020-12-28, 12:20 PM

p.s. where can I get an Utterly Dwarfed book? Everyone who has a copy please post your contact information and when you can be found to be at your most vulnerable

A physical copy is in my hoard. I can be found on the Silver Mountain. And as a dragon, I am at my most vulnerable... well, never.

Good luck. :smallamused:

137beth

2020-12-29, 05:05 PM

No it doesn't, no we don't and we *definitely* do not exist.

Sincerely,
The Order of Suppressing the Order of the Stick Books (that as mentioned definitely does not exist)
TOOSTOOTSB (naturally, the acronym also does not and never has existed)

p.s. where can I get an Utterly Dwarfed book? Everyone who has a copy please post your contact information and when you can be found to be at your most vulnerable

Meh, your non-existent organizations name is not nearly as good as The Office of Acquisitions in the Benefit of One and Once More the Good Mr. Kite. Catastrophe Incorporated in the Manner of Manners, (https://www.supernormalstep.com/archives/20), or OTOOAIBOOAOMTGMKCIITMOM for short.

snowblizz

2020-12-30, 06:41 AM

A physical copy is in my hoard. I can be found on the Silver Mountain. And as a dragon, I am at my most vulnerable... well, never.

Good luck. :smallamused:

I refer you to the case of Mr Underhill vs. Smaug the Red aka Terrible.

And we got several halfling thiefs on retainer...

Peelee

2020-12-30, 01:00 PM

I refer you to the case of Mr Underhill vs. Smaug the Red aka Terrible.

And we got several halfling thiefs on retainer...

Smaug? A mere lizard. I give Ancalagon himself a run for his money!

Which, being a dragon, is a considerable amount of money.

pearl jam

2020-12-30, 05:43 PM

Smaug? A mere lizard. I give Ancalagon himself a run for his money!

Which, being a dragon, is a considerable amount of money.

This is the kind of post for which I wish this forum had a "like" button. lol

Cataras

2021-01-19, 01:43 PM

Has there been any statement on whether GDGU will be reprinted, and, if so, any kind of timeline on it? It's the only one I don't have a copy of since I filled in the rest of my collection this year during the sale. Other books haven't sold out so quickly, so I didn't realize I'd need to order it right when it came out to get a copy... (I don't want a PDF. I know my organizational skills, and they're heavily skewed toward being able to find physical objects rather than data files 20+ years later.)

I'm with you, Alegh. I'd prefer a physical copy as well. Hopefully if there are enough requests, we can get another print run. <hint hint> 😉