AEG's Warlords of the Accordlands?

[HeavenShallBurn]

I dunno. I had the misfortune to live near a very large slaughterhouse years ago and know that the carcasses are trucked out before decomp sets in. . . it is actually the gallons upon gallons of spilled blood that you smell miles away, upon the wind (and as anybody who has ever lived near a meat packing plant or slaughterhouse can tell you, it smells horrible).

Yep, slaughterhouses do smell truly vile. A great deal of that smell comes from the offal rather than the blood itself. Blood only really gets bad once it begins to rot, but with the amount of blood spilled in slaughterhouses it gets everywhere, soaks right into the pores of the concrete and wood. Either way the smell of both gets in too deep to draw out with cleaning and rots there. For fresh bodies you'd be surprised, most of the smell comes from the pleural cavity when the gut is torn open. Or the brains, they have a different smell but brain matter definitely smells.

 

[PaulofCthulhu]

You can hear over 20 episodes of actual play of WoTA over at www.rpgmp3.com if you want to hear how it can sound during play.

 

[Psion]

Not to mention Diaglo getting a cameo, Can't forget the warlord Diaglus

Um, that's Wilderlands.

 

[catsclaw227]

I have the books and even bought a second set for cheap so that I could scan and OCR them for my personal use. I use my laptop and DMGenie during play and all that retyping would have sucked pretty bad.

I never did get around to cutting and scanning the second set.... too bad the RPGNow copies aren't OCR'ed. (or are they?)

This would be a really good 4e campaign setting in my mind.

 

[DM_Jeff]

The different online stores seelling the books for around $10 are a STEAL. Use that path before the PDF's because like nearly all AEG d20 books, the PDF's are just scanned images of pages, not OCR'd.

And the books feel great to hold, and I actualy like the smell. Then again I did a bunch of writing for these things so I guess my nose is biased?

-DM Jeff

 

[catsclaw227]

It seems odd that at this stage of the 3.x lifecycle that AEG didn't simply export their Quark/InDesign/whatever file into a PDF, with text, and offer that for sale instead of the scanned images.

I don't understand that decision, but then again, I am not a 3PP.

 

[kenobi65]

And the books feel great to hold, and I actualy like the smell. Then again I did a bunch of writing for these things so I guess my nose is biased?

That could be. I, personally, suspect that the aroma is Nothrog b.o.

 

[jdrakeh]

It seems odd that at this stage of the 3.x lifecycle that AEG didn't simply export their Quark/InDesign/whatever file into a PDF, with text, and offer that for sale instead of the scanned images.

They may not have the original working files anymore. After all, they haven't published any d20 material (that I'm aware of) since late 2006.

 

[Voadam]

I got the pdf of Mercenaries by AEG a while ago and the copy/paste functionality is terrible. It does not pick up words that are over a background picture, and there is a background picture on most every page. Plus the letter recognition for where you can copy text is poor.

 

[Voadam]

It seems odd that at this stage of the 3.x lifecycle that AEG didn't simply export their Quark/InDesign/whatever file into a PDF, with text, and offer that for sale instead of the scanned images.

I don't understand that decision, but then again, I am not a 3PP.

I think dtrpg has a deal for publishers with big back stocks where dtrpg will do the scanning work, which means less work for the publishers.

I wish they would do a better OCR scan though. Mercenaries, Denizens of Dread, Manual of Monsters, and a few others are practically useless for online copy and paste functionality, which is half of why I bought those pdfs.