DEM has recently acquired a handful of Amethyst Evolution hardcovers. They were promised to a local game store but they cut their order in half at the last minute. So now we're offering them to fans and supporters.

We are selling the books for $25 CDN each. This limited print run will also include an 8x10 full color image from Nick Greenwood (you'll have your choice of four images – Foundations Cover, Evolution Cover, Gebermach Vs. Amethyst, or Origins) and will be signed and numbered by the writer. If interested, email or message me with your address and I will get a shipping quote. Payment will be accepted via Paypal.

As the GSL now permits it, and considering we're moving into Pathfinder soon, we here at DEM have decided to allow customers the opportunity to stroll down memory lane with this piece of novel nostalgia. For only $3.99, you now purchase the original D20 Amethyst published in 2008. It received numerous awards including an honorable mention at the 2008 Ennies.

Fair warning to all, this version of Amethyst is no longer canon, and it's also not the Pathfinder version due out soon. But it does have that awesome Jaime Jones cover (before he became a celebrity in the art field) and is nearly 400 pages of content, with most of its fluff still not covered by the 4th Edition version. I'm hoping at that price point, people may be interested in seeing how it all started.

http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=55253

Amethyst Evolution is now for sale on the Paizo website.

http://paizo.com/store/downloads/diasExMachina/v5748btpy8ob2&source=search

We also have some sample images from the Evolutions book...

Recently, I began a series of articles on LivingDice.com involving copyright infringement and internet piracy. It concerns a report that Amethyst was being distributed via certain websites, which led to a specific forum, where I began a dialogue with the users there.

Part 1 and 2 are already up, with further posts following every week.

At the end of this six part series will be an announcement regarding the future of one of our product lines. Stay tuned.

PART1

http://www.livingdice.com/6502/questioning-piracy-part-1-%E2%80%93-cease-desist/

PART 2

http://www.livingdice.com/6523/questioning-piracy-part-2-%E2%80%93-the-curtain-of-profit/

Louis-Philippe Simoneau sent me these essential techan characters. These are some of the coolest character sheets I've ever seen. The artwork is borrowed from various artists.

If you have played Amethyst, are thinking of playing Amethyst, or if you're curious how the modern rules work for non-fantasy games (outside of Amethyst), these are a must-look.

Disclaimer: Louis-Philippe is not associated with DEM.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7032230/taskforce-arrowhead.pdf

Art Credits
Patrick Brown: http://patrickbrown.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=120#/d1fdaq8
colobind (Johan Wahlbäck): http://colorbind.deviantart.com/#/d3hm47u http://colorbind.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d3ge6ap
0800 : http://0800.deviantart.com/art/fgjdgj-156762954
Kerem Beyit: http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh&section&global=1&q=devid4#/d34sizw
Shimmering-Sword (Anthony Scroggins): http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh&section&global=1&q=Stay+Frosty#/d2ue8s0
Kaisi: http://kasai.deviantart.com/art/Commissh-Motoko-Kusanagi-199285269
Psycho Fish (Max Dunbar): http://psycho-fish.deviantart.com/art/Mercenary-01-105141423

The hardcover release of Amethyst Evolution is finally here.
The original cover is listed at $26.99 but will have a sale price of $21.99.

Those that want the color PDF and the B+W hardcover only need to spend $3.00 more.

To the couple hundred people that have downloaded Amethyst Evolution so far, you are not getting burned.

EVERYONE that has purchased Amethyst Evolution before the release of the hardcover is being sent a coupon that will allow them to purchase the hardcover for $13.99. For those wondering, that's a greater discount than the $3.00 price difference between the hardcover and the hardcover/PDF bundle.

If you have purchased Amethyst Evolution and NOT received your email, then you have selected to not receive emails from the publisher. Contact DiasExMachina personally and they will verify your customer ID and send you a coupon.

I wanted to wait until I had the second prototype in my hand before I posted again. Alas, it did not arrive this Friday, meaning we are backed up at least until Tuesday, since Monday is a holiday in BC.

Grrrr.

One thing I can report is the upcoming price point for the Amethyst Evolution hardcover.

The original cover price will be listed at $26.99 but will have a sale price of $21.99.

Those that want the color PDF and the B+W hardcover only need to spend $3.00 more.

Now, to the couple hundred people that have downloaded Amethyst Evolution so far, you are not getting burned. EVERYONE that has purchased Amethyst Evolution before the release of the hardcover is being sent a coupon that will allow them to purchase the hardcover for 13.99. For those wondering, that's a greater discount than the $3.00 price difference between the hardcover and the hardcover/PDF bundle. It's not much…but it is less.

I just finished a 10,000 word article for Living Dice which was broken up into six parts and which will begin on Monday. It deals with an exchange between Dias Ex Machina and a forum that ran a database of illegally distributed 1st and 3rd party games. The dialogue was more or less civil and the end result is a surprising announcement from DEM regarding the future of one of its product lines.

That is really the only good news to report. My netbook died on my during August, and I lost about three weeks of work on the Invasion Proxy module that is being released for free and is being bundled in with the Ultramodern4 rules system. That's a setback. It gets really hard to get in front of a keyboard and type when you are just trying to reconstruct work you had already completed. Oh, and I got evicted. Awesome.