Hello All Spawn of Fashan Fans,

I reached out to Mr. Davis (Kirby), the author of Spawn of Fashan (SoF) and mentioned my interest along with others here on the Acaeum forum. I would also gather members of the Dragonsfoot forum would have some interest as well, so if any of you are influential on their platform, please let them know about this opportunity. I mentioned to Kirby that we both attended OU (Univ. of Oklahoma) around the same time (he was 3 years before me). He said that if there is sufficient interest to generate 10 or more copies, then he would be willing to provide a discount, even more so if we can get to 20 copies. Can we please get a count of who would like a copy?

Here is what he said about the current prints:

Kirby L. Davis: "As you might expect, I sold out of the original run long ago, so I no longer number them. The signed books replicate the original content and cover, plus the two-page update added with the first reprint nearly 20 years ago. I replaced the comb binding with a spiral, and added clear plastic covers front and back. I normally charge $55 a copy, which covers shipping."

He did not mention what kind of discount, but let's see how many people want a copy and then we can see what kind of discount he would be willing to offer. Maybe we can get closer to 20 people

Thank you - Paul

BUMP - just a friendly reminder ... if anyone wants to order a copy of Spawn of Fashan  

Thanks in Advance - Paul

If there is another opportunity to get one of these, I'm interested.

Is it any good?

Seriously Ian? You're not familiar with Spawn of Fashan? It is hideously bad. It is the epitome of cliched amateurish homebrew. Because of its inclusion in Heroic Worlds (where it was savaged) it gained some notoriety. It is so bad people wondered if it was some sort of con job pretending to be bad. We now know that it was simply the work of a young gamer doing his best. The now adult author has done a couple of reprints, for the collectors who would be hard pressed to find an original. But no one other than the author would actually play this.

stratochamp wrote in Spawn of Fashan - Author POD:Seriously Ian? You're not familiar with Spawn of Fashan? It is hideously bad. It is the epitome of cliched amateurish homebrew. Because of its inclusion in Heroic Worlds (where it was savaged) it gained some notoriety. It is so bad people wondered if it was some sort of con job pretending to be bad. We now know that it was simply the work of a young gamer doing his best. The now adult author has done a couple of reprints, for the collectors who would be hard pressed to find an original. But no one other than the author would actually play this.

   
So one for the completists only, then.

I have Greg Stafford's copy of the original printing. Mr. Davis went up to Greg at the convention they were at and gave that copy to him. I have #3 of 20 of the latter print (we he reversed the colors to distinguish it).

You have to remember Ian, I want one of everything FRP that was published in English through the end of 2003. That includes the best things made and the worst things made. I'm not collecting these items to play, I am preserving them for posterity and will let history judge. I have a museum. The singles never get touched. The doubles get played with.

Now I picked up the second one because it was only fair that I purchased something from him after hearing the story first hand about Greg Stafford's copy of Spawn of Fashan.