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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 5994909" data-attributes="member: 725"><p>It's nice that they <em>intend </em>to make pdfs of all the D&D books available, but I'll believe it when I see it. If the play testing process will take another two years or so, I'll see Hasbro pulling the plug or drastically changing the project within the realm of possibilities.</p><p></p><p>Most of the 'scanned' 2E pdf were actually of very good quality, because they OCRed all the text and didn't use the text unders picture methodology. The pdfs were lean and of decent quality. 3E and 4E pdfs shouldn't be an issue at all. Also, with maybe the exception of the very first Chainmail release, everything would have been done on a DTP program. And if those files were still available (in backups for example), those files could be upgraded to newer software version, and eventually into current day versions of InDesign and easily converted to pdf.</p><p></p><p>There are tons of pdf to epub conversion programs available, why not use that? InDesign also allows you to publish to multiple formats, pdf, html, epub. Most folks prefer a nice looking pdf of the original book though...</p><p></p><p>Even if made available, I'm concerned about pricing. Although I already bought just about every 2E pdf when they were available for $3 each. Others aren't that lucky and if WotC most recent pdf strategy is any indication, full price pdfs of old material isn't very 'good'...</p><p></p><p>As for D&D Next (5E or whatever the hells the marketing department decides to call it), we'll see. I remember the early days of Eric Noah's D&D 3E site. Our group had ran afoul of 2E's limitations a tad bit to often and even the small hints of 3E made us all excited. I started my 3E campaign far before the actual 3E release, had to fill a lot of holes myself, but it was fun because going back to 2E filled us with dread.</p><p></p><p>We ran afoul of 3.5E's limitations many years ago and 4E just fell short in other departments. But Pathfinder is already available to scratch that 'D&D' itch, so I'm not really all that excited over 5E/Next to replace 3.5E/4E as I already have a perfectly good replacement. That doesn't mean I'm interested, but WotC track record the last half decade (plus) has left much to be desired and I'm skeptical. I'll take a look when it comes out (if it comes out) and get excited/disappointed then...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 5994909, member: 725"] It's nice that they [I]intend [/I]to make pdfs of all the D&D books available, but I'll believe it when I see it. If the play testing process will take another two years or so, I'll see Hasbro pulling the plug or drastically changing the project within the realm of possibilities. Most of the 'scanned' 2E pdf were actually of very good quality, because they OCRed all the text and didn't use the text unders picture methodology. The pdfs were lean and of decent quality. 3E and 4E pdfs shouldn't be an issue at all. Also, with maybe the exception of the very first Chainmail release, everything would have been done on a DTP program. And if those files were still available (in backups for example), those files could be upgraded to newer software version, and eventually into current day versions of InDesign and easily converted to pdf. There are tons of pdf to epub conversion programs available, why not use that? InDesign also allows you to publish to multiple formats, pdf, html, epub. Most folks prefer a nice looking pdf of the original book though... Even if made available, I'm concerned about pricing. Although I already bought just about every 2E pdf when they were available for $3 each. Others aren't that lucky and if WotC most recent pdf strategy is any indication, full price pdfs of old material isn't very 'good'... As for D&D Next (5E or whatever the hells the marketing department decides to call it), we'll see. I remember the early days of Eric Noah's D&D 3E site. Our group had ran afoul of 2E's limitations a tad bit to often and even the small hints of 3E made us all excited. I started my 3E campaign far before the actual 3E release, had to fill a lot of holes myself, but it was fun because going back to 2E filled us with dread. We ran afoul of 3.5E's limitations many years ago and 4E just fell short in other departments. But Pathfinder is already available to scratch that 'D&D' itch, so I'm not really all that excited over 5E/Next to replace 3.5E/4E as I already have a perfectly good replacement. That doesn't mean I'm interested, but WotC track record the last half decade (plus) has left much to be desired and I'm skeptical. I'll take a look when it comes out (if it comes out) and get excited/disappointed then... [/QUOTE]
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