What items would you like when you buy an RPG book?

[Sacrosanct]

They all sound like they'd add value, but the only one I'd really like is the PDF. In fact, these days I'm more likely to buy the PDF than the physical product for almost everything.

But it does need to be a PDF, and not some other ebook format (even one that's 'better'). Because the main use I'd make of it would be for a game I run at work, using my work PC. For very good reason, they've blocked pretty much all gaming sites, and of course I can't justify installing dedicated software for a game on my PC. But I can justify a handful of PDFs, and we have a reader already.

I can't think of a company that released a digital book and doesn't have a pdf option. That would be....weird to me.

 

[Greggy C]

I can't think of a company that released a digital book and doesn't have a pdf option. That would be....weird to me.

Wizards of the Coast? Dungeons and Dragons?

 

[Greggy C]

Actually, yes I have. Next?

Can you send me my RTF version, cause its not available on Drivethru

 

[Sacrosanct]

Wizards of the Coast? Dungeons and Dragons?

Their digital books aren't PDF?

 

[Sacrosanct]

Can you send me my RTF version, cause its not available on Drivethru

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I had to do a double-take, because the digital file should be a zip file, not a pdf. Then I saw you have the basic version. The basic rules were only ever meant to be a stripped-down PDF.

 

[Greggy C]

I had to do a double-take, because the digital file should be a zip file, not a pdf. Then I saw you have the basic version. The basic rules were only ever meant to be a stripped-down PDF.

lol

 

[delericho]

Their digital books aren't PDF?

The 5 books are available in digital form via D&D Beyond, but not PDF. Older editions are available in PDF, but that doesn't help me much.

 

[gamerprinter]

Well as a small publisher, who also does the graphics, page layout, illustrations and maps for all my publications. I never put art behind the text, though my font is only 11 point, not overly large. My publications have more than plenty of illustrations, but I'm getting older, and for a while now, I've found that the trend to put art behind the text as just awful in trying to have a readable document. I don't create multiple versions of work to allow readabililty, I insure the base product is art rich and readable - no need for multiple versions. I also create VTT ready and print ready of any maps inside a Zip file. The print ready map is a layered PDF so you can shut off labels and the grid if you want. This is what I do for page layout - it looks clean, professional, artful, yet nothing behind the text...

 

[Greggy C]

I've found that the trend to put art behind the text as just awful in trying to have a readable document.

I can't think of who does that though, maybe some small indie publisher producing modules. I can't think of any of my core rule books that came like that. However Dark Heresy and Shadow of the Demon Lord really bother me to read, the colors and textured paper hurts my eyes.

 

[gamerprinter]

I can't think of who does that though, maybe some small indie publisher producing modules. I can't think of any of my core rule books that came like that. However Dark Heresy and Shadow of the Demon Lord really bother me to read, the colors and textured paper hurts my eyes.

Again I don't follow trends, though have no intents to set trends either, I just produce how I see it best from a graphic design point of view, I don't worry about what everyone else is doing, ever. I am small, though, only a little more than 50 products, though over a decade in business, and I'm third party, not an indie publisher, at least I wouldn't call myself that.