$1000 Where would you put yours?

[Marius Delphus]

Speaking of which, does anyone know a faster and easier way to fix the contrast on a pdf without taking the fool thing apart and doing each page individually? I'm not about to spend 100 man hours or more to clean up a $40 purchase...

You must have the commercial version of Acrobat (Acrobat Reader will not do). I haven't seen the PS ESDs myself, but if it is OCRed text layered over a background image (like other ESDs I *have* seen), there is a *chance* you will be able to delete the background graphic from each page with the Arrow (TouchUp Object) tool: just click on the background and hit Delete.

Unfortunately, you do have to do every page this way. While an ideal tool for distributing graphics/DTP content, Acrobat is NOT a DTP application.

 

[Mistwell]

Man, this thread is full of people incapable of following directions. So many people that either did really bad in school, or just think being a smartass when answering an honest HYPOTHETICAL question is somehow funny or useful in this situation. As if the question was "If you had $1000 what would you do with it?"

For me, I would spend it roughly as follows:

Epic Level Handbook
Relics & Rituals
Relics & Rituals II
Monster Manual II
Kingdoms of Kalamar: Campaign Setting Sourcebook
Stronghold Builder's Guide
Book of Vile Darkness
Book of Challenges II
Deities & Demigods
Lords of Darkness
Silver Marches
Spycraft
Farscape
Divine & The Defeated
Scarred Lands Campaign Setting: Ghelspad
Scarred Lands Gazetteer: Ghelspad
Mithril: City of the Golem
Hollowfaust: City of Necromancers
Calastia: Throne of the Black Dragon
Burok Torn: City Under Siege
Vigil Watch : Warrens of the Ratmen
The Wise and the Wicked
Wilderness and Wasteland: Scarred Lands Encounters
Serpent in the Fold
Scarred Lands Gazetteer: Termana
Champions of the Scarred Lands
I would spend the rest of it on Miniatures, primarily used ones off of E-bay.

 

[Sir Edgar]

I'd either spend it all on miniatures or OD&D, AD&D, and JG stuff. I might also buy a few new d20/D&D items like:

Swashbuckler
Nyambe
Necropolis
Spycraft
Call of Cthulu
Arthur Pendragon
Scarred Lands
Everquest
Lord of the Rings
Star Wars
Monster Manual II
Epic Level Handbook (why not?)
Stronghold Builder's Guide (a few good points of reference...)
Book of Vile Darkness (just curious!)

I may still buy a few of these down the road (even without this fictitious $1,000) like Swashbuckler, Nyambe, and Necropolis if I need them.

I'd probably buy a lot of historical books, too.

My next definite REAL purchases will be:

Psionics Handbook
Tome of Horrors
Counter Pack 2 (Clans, etc)

 

[Paul_Klein]

I agree that some people here are incapable of following directions. "If you had $1000 to spend on gaming products, what would they be?" "I'd donate it to charity.".

Anyway, id go on eBay and finish off my collection of d6 Star Wars (not too many left to go).
Then I'd purchace all the WotC D&D books I don't yet own (most of them).
Then I'd probably round it all out with a Scarred Lands collection of books.
Then I'd buy Lord of the Rings RPG

 

[Broken Fang]

I wouldn't spend any of it on RPG's...our group has more than enough stuff between us already. I would spend it all on my other, more expensive gaming hobby:

Warhammer 40k!

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

What would I do with a grand, I'd put it in the bank and save it for somthing I really need and not blow it on poorly written game books from hack d20 publishers.

That's so nice of you to just automatically assume that everything is complete crap. I'm sure that all those people who risked their life savings to start d20 companies are glad to know their efforts are appreciated.

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

With my thousand dollars, I'd go back in time to when the PHB's were $20 apiece and buy fifty of them. Then I'd wait until they raised the price to $30 and sell them for $25 apiece.

I'd then take that $1250 and probably buy a metric assload of minis. However, considering how easily I could spend $100 on gaming products, I'd probably have no trouble finding $1250 of decent product to buy, though it might take a few months to get the good stuff.

 

[Drakmar]

wow.. I don't know what I would buy.. I would just have to walk into a Gaming Store.. and impulse buy. the best way I feel.

Now.. I would have phrased the question... you just won a $1000 voucher at your local gaming store... what do you buy?... that should deal with dem smart-arsies.

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

Now.. I would have phrased the question... you just won a $1000 voucher at your local gaming store... what do you buy?... that should deal with dem smart-arsies.

When I was 10 or so, my buddy won a $1000 voucher at Toys-R-Us. Man, that was a lot of Nintendo games

 

[dave_o]

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In my pants, of course.