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posted by martyb on Tuesday March 26 2019, @05:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the bad-things-happening-to-bad-characters dept.

https://www.yog-sothoth.com/index.html/news/chinese-government-burns-call-of-cthulhu-supplement/

For many years, various publishers in the Americas and Europe have had their books printed in China as a cost-saving measure (including many in the RPG field). Often the primary downside of this has simply been the time taken for the books to arrive, but it appears there can also be another problem, as the publishers of The Sassoon Files (a Cthulhu-based RPG supplement) have announced that all print copies of their book have been destroyed by the Chinese Government – for unspecified reasons.

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/25/the-sassoon-files.html

Julio writes, "Sons of the Singularity is a small RPG publisher. Last year, they kickstarted The Sassoon Files, a sourcebook for the popular Call of Cthulhu RPG and Trail of Cthulhu RPG. As a lot of publishers, theydid[sic] the printing in China. The same day that the print was finished, a Chinese Government decided that it was "problematic", so they burned the entire print run. Targeting foreign publications is a first, specially when it seems there wasn't anything problematic (the supplement was based on Shanghai but was respetful and documented carefully).

https://sonsofthesingularity.com/setback-in-the-sassoon-files-banned-by-the-ccp/

We have suffered an unfortunate and unexpected setback with the off-set print run. On March 20th, the Chinese government ordered the destruction of our books. Although the printer returned our deposit, we need to find another printer and this will result in a delay in fulfillment. We are committed to completing the print run and fulfillment.


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by https on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:29PM (1 child)

    by https (5248) on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:29PM (#820212) Journal

    I am wondering what possible confusion of ideas could lead someone to state that nuclear issues in Godzilla are "subtext".

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  • (Score: 2) by istartedi on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:56PM

    by istartedi (123) on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:56PM (#820226) Journal

    My exposure to Godzilla is limited to some old school badly dubbed stuff a long time ago. Based on your reply, I'm guessing they made this theme more explicit in later revisions?

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