From Greg Stolze on RPGnet: Waaay back when, when HB: Redeemer came out, I promised ten pounds of books to the first person to post a correct translation of the coded message from its introduction here. No one broke it. In 2001, I sold an annotated copy of the book at auction, including big hints about the cipher. The buyer didn't break it. Then he posted the hints for other codebreakers to consider. THEY didn't break it. Finally, after a concensus seemed to emerge, I agreed to reveal all when I got my author copies of "Days of Fire", provided that no one broke the code in the interim. Today, that book arrived. How the Cipher Worked The cipher was actually two overlapping ciphers. I took the base message and split it in half. The first half was encoded on (IIRC) the