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The Strike Force Archives: over 800 megs of Aaron's original material retrieved by Jason Walters with the assistance of the Allston Estate. (The original recovered material was a 600 MB zip file, which unpacked itself into 872 MB with over 5,800 items.) Edited and organized by Strike Force co-author Michael Surbrook, it includes an introduction and an index to this vast collection of newsletters, artwork, blue books, character sheets, notes, and other materials.

Note From Archivist Michael Surbrook: There are exactly 956.5 MB's of material in the directory containing the archives. And 6,928 items. I organized it all, as well as cleaning up file and folder names. Also, two 2,000-3,000 pages PDFs are in this archives, containing information on over 25 years of RPG sessions from multiple campaigns!


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Will M March 02, 2021 4:39 am UTC
The reason this costs $20 and not $200 is because it really is the original material. The files are in the same formats as in the 90's or even 80's, so you'll have to download programs to open them these days (get Publisher 98 for the Publisher files, modern Publisher won't open those). The naming scheme isn't the most searchable, a lot of the pictures are outside the documents they would be in if they were written today, and most files are duplicated 2-4 times in different formats.

This is still a god-tier product. There's just so much in here! Even the "2000-3000 pages of PDF" are just the session notes, there must be at least twice that much overall. Decoding/reordering all the files takes ages, but when you do it's like having all of Champions or Freedom/Emerald City for $20. I'd rate it six stars if I could.
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Chet C August 04, 2016 11:15 pm UTC
It contains all known notes that Aaron condensed, reworked, and ruthlessly removed to fit in what I now realize was a VERY truncated "Reader's Digest" version of his HUGE Champions campaign. I got this big honking set of files AND purchased the new, expanded Strike Force volume - and I'm glad I did.

I now have Allston reading material to last the rest of my life.
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Chaotic G August 04, 2016 11:05 pm UTC
Does this archive contain a PDF of the original Strike Force manuscript?
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David O June 18, 2016 6:19 pm UTC
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This file won't download. It keeps timing out.
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David O June 18, 2016 7:09 pm UTC
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OK, I think I've figured it out.. after about 6 tries it finally took.
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