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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AmerginLiath" data-source="post: 7675516" data-attributes="member: 777">As with the 3.5 books, I'm guessing that this is the version reconstructed for the anniversary edition (done for the Gygax Memorial fund), as those files would have created in a version (XML?) specifically compatible for a processable and searchable PDF file. I even recall that the specific 1-vs-7 OCR callouts were at issue in that reconstruction, so this seems to be the case. As such, the other two 1st edition handbooks should be following shortly along the usual release schedule; after that, there's no reason NOT to have the reconstructed 2nd edition books (also from this same rerelease line, with the preprocess files likely built from XML to PDF) in a few weeks to a few months.It's a nice piece of work from WotC. In doing these rereleases as they did, the physical book sales would have been enough to basically handle the production costs of doing the file conversions. 2e and 3.5e already existed in computer files, so there was much less conversion (although 2nd edition likely needed to restore typesetting from RTF; 3.5 would just need to process the XML language and index the PDFs) while 1st edition was OCR. From there, we're seeing how they provided hard copies for those who wanted (some of which I still see available on store shelves) and now they have an evergreen product in digital format for each edition. While the errata situation is different that what is expected to the modern gamer, it might be curious to see if WotC is planning to post/repost any old errata articles from DRAGON on their website now for the release of these products – it might even help prime interest in sales!(What I'm interested in seeing is how the OSR crowd responds to the new availability of the ruleset (along of course with many of the old adventures), especially since 5e has rebuilt a number of bridges)</blockquote>

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