^new^ — The Trove Rpg Archive 2021

By mid-2021, the original maintainers of The Trove had stopped direct uploads. The site pivoted to "user contributions," but the damage was done. The server costs for hosting petabytes of PDFs were immense. Ad revenue (from sketchy banner ads) couldn’t cover bandwidth. The site became slow, broken, and littered with dead links.

The main domain—thetrove.net—went dark. A message appeared: the site was "closed permanently." No appeals. No resurrection. For many, it felt like the burning of Alexandria. the trove rpg archive 2021

Daniel Fox, creator of the Zweihander RPG, claimed that Tier 1 and Tier 2 publishers within the Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA) organized a coordinated takedown after the site failed to honor DMCA requests. By mid-2021, the original maintainers of The Trove