Re: [TML] Comment on current Humble Bundle Mark Urbin 21 Aug 2023 01:23 UTC

Agreed, it is for a good cause.  Can someone familiar with the material
list 3 or 4 of the titles included that make it with it?

On 8/20/2023 2:12 PM, Jeff Zeitlin - editor at freelancetraveller.com
(via tml list) wrote:
> The current Humble Bundle for Mongoose Traveller material names Cancer
> Research UK as the charitable beneficiary. Given listmember and Traveller
> author Timothy Collinson's recent "rolls of the dice of life", I think this
> is particularly appropriate, and would encourage people to:
>
> * buy in to the bundle and toss in a few extra bucks/quid/euro
> * adjust the donation to give the charity 15% of what you pay for the
>    bundle instead of the default 5%.
>
> Note that the ratio of Mongoose-to-Humble on the charitable donation
> appears to be 3:1 - that is, for every ¤4 that goes to CRUK, ¤3 comes from
> Mongoose, the fourth comes from Humble.
>
> The Bundle can be purchased at
> https://www.humblebundle.com/books/traveller-mongoose-publishing-books
>
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>
> (For what it's worth, it'd be nice if Humble and DTRPG could get together
> and Make It So that Humble purchases would automatically be added to your
> DTRPG library...)
>
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