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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 4763753" data-attributes="member: 11821">It's going to be out there very soon, if it's not already.  That's been the pattern since the 3e days.  However, I'd be curious to know its quality.  I mean, it doesn't take much work to throw up a PDF full of image scans, which will clock in at 80mb or more and lack any kind of search functionality.It takes a lot more work to OCR a document, check it, index it, typeset it, and bookmark it.  I would be very surprised if this were done already - or if it's done soon.  AFAIK, it's still not done for the Star Wars Saga Edition core book (which is a perfect analogue, since it has no legal PDF editions), and that's been out since May, 2007.*I don't believe WotC would go into something like this, expecting to foil piracy in general.  I do believe that they expect the quality of the pirated materials will decrease sharply.Will this lead to more purchases of the physical books?  I don't know.  But, if people are serious that they mostly grab pirated PDFs as a "preview" rather than for actual table use, I think it should.  After all, a clunky scan has far less utility than one of the official WotC PDFs.  It's much less of a substitute for a physical book at the game table.-O* However, with the recent removal of WotC PDFs as a pirate-able option, I would not be at all surprised if some enterprising soul took it upon themselves to put a lot of work into this one.  I would be surprised if this continued.</blockquote>

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