RPG Publisher Says Chinese Government Burned Every Copy Of Their Latest Book

Sons of jinda44 the Singularity, a small publisher of RPGs, ran a Kickstarter last year for e19 a Call of Cthulu sourcebook, successfully raising over $20,000. Called The Sassoon Files, it was finally printed last week, only for the publisher to claim that the Chinese government then stepped in and burned every copy. Via Boing-Boing, here’s Sons of the Singularity’s Jesse Covner explaining what happened: If you can’t watch the video, on the book’s Kickstarter page there’s a short statement that reads:cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1833590629","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); 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. Covner says that, according to the manufacturers, a Chinese government official inspected the supernatural-themed RPG books, determined they violated Chinese law—despite being bound for a foreign market—and demanded that every copy be destroyed within 24 hours. https://kotaku.com/popular-horror-game-removed-from-steam-after-chinese-pl-1832881001 The Kickstarter will still be going ahead though; the betdog Chinese company was able to refund the deposit, and Sons of the Singularity will be looking elsewhere to get the books printed.