Oooh! You should definitely do that. I cannot drool enough about Castle Whiterock. It's gotta be one of the best 3.5e products produced. Loved it!
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Oooh! You should definitely do that. I cannot drool enough about Castle Whiterock. It's gotta be one of the best 3.5e products produced. Loved it!
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Jack99
Adventurer
It's freaking awesome. Worth every penny, even though I did pay $165, so that is saying a lot.
Mercule
Adventurer
I've even got a tablet PC. I really thought that'd make a difference -- actually, it does, just not enough.
The final proof was the erm... pre-release 4e PDFs. Since I couldn't find a dead tree version of the books for weeks (even the local stores had nothing), I tried reading those to learn the rules. It kinda worked, but it was really, really, really frustrating flipping between stuff like the leveling table and the class info. Frustrating to the point I said, "screw it, I really don't need to learn this right now," and let it go until Amazon finally shipped.
Like I said before, if the linking was absolutely top notch, that'd be a completely different story. I have a couple of bonus PDFs that I got as freebies with the print version and they have not just the chapters bookmarked, but a twistable tree of the sub-sections. Do that, add a hyperlinked index and index of charts and tables (like the 3.5 DMG, but linked) and we're talking. If they added inline links for things like the skills listed for each class, recommended powers, etc. it might convince me to pay $25 for the PDF. Heck, it might convince me to go paperless, at that point. I do like the image of having my whole library on my tablet. A lot.
But, D&D books are reference materials. If I can't thumb through them and quickly look stuff up, they don't serve their primary purpose. Come on, put the money saved on print costs to some use.
Henry
Autoexreginated
I for one am sorely tempted; it just isn't in my budget right now, but it would make dungeon prep and reading in off time at work a LOT easier. I'm happy they did it -- and proud of them for not asking full price for the things. Still not cheaper than what I paid for the paper books at BAMM, but you can't have everything you want. 
DonTadow
First Post
I was more than shocked at the price but it falls in line with Wotc's arrogance. I wish I could have touched on it in my review but we're not allowed to comment on price. Needless to say i was thinking about castle whiterock when i was looking at the price and thinking that there are about a half dozen new systems out that are cheaper than 25 bucks. For 25 bucks you can buy the books at amazon.
More than the no bookmarking (which even small publishers should be ashamed of) but the thing is a 130mb download. If this is wotcs foray into the digital age its a poor showing.
Fedifensor
Explorer
Er...not sure what you're downloading, but I purchased all three and the total space is 77 mb.
Dire Bare
Legend
Arrogance? Oh please.
Dire Bare
Legend
Did you see the print on the product page for each book, in red "ink" no less, that bookmarking and linking was being added to each PDF, and when done would be available by free download to anyone who already purchased the PDFs. Guess not.
THE PHB has already been updated with full bookmarks, search, copy/paste, etc. The MM and DMG are to follow, and they're all about 25 MB each. I'm quite happy with these.
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