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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 7687105" data-attributes="member: 18182">WotC started selling PDF scans of classic products directly through their webstore, these were called &quot;ESD&quot; files, an acronym, although I forget what it stands for. When WotC closed down its webstore, SVG Games was a spin-off that basically took WotC's online store and made it independent, ESD files and all. And, as others have mentioned, Paizo was selling D&amp;D PDFs also. And, there were a significant number of free D&amp;D PDFs available from WotC's main website. Eventually, of course, One Bookshelf (RPG Now and DriveThruRPG) started selling them also.Anything you purchased through One Bookshelf, should now be in your library to download again. Anything you got from WotC, SVG Games, or Paizo, is likely unavailable forever more. This sucks, but, you didn't purchase unlimited and forever access to downloading back-ups of your D&amp;D PDFs. When you purchase a DVD, and lose or break the disc, is anyone responsible for replacing your DVD? It's not really any different for digital files. You purchase it, you download it, and if you lose it, well, that's your problem. A company can go above and beyond to provide back-up service like One Bookshelf did, and that's incredible customer service. But if One Bookshelf goes under, are they under any responsibility to make &quot;forever&quot; downloads possible? Is WotC? No.I sympathize, as I DID backup all of my D&amp;D PDFs purchased from all of those above retailers . . . . and then had some sort of computer melt-down and lost many of my files which are pretty much gone. I'm bummed, but I'm not falling into the trap of getting angry with WotC (not saying that Pragmatic or anyone else here is).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 7687105, member: 18182"] WotC started selling PDF scans of classic products directly through their webstore, these were called "ESD" files, an acronym, although I forget what it stands for. When WotC closed down its webstore, SVG Games was a spin-off that basically took WotC's online store and made it independent, ESD files and all. And, as others have mentioned, Paizo was selling D&D PDFs also. And, there were a significant number of free D&D PDFs available from WotC's main website. Eventually, of course, One Bookshelf (RPG Now and DriveThruRPG) started selling them also. Anything you purchased through One Bookshelf, should now be in your library to download again. Anything you got from WotC, SVG Games, or Paizo, is likely unavailable forever more. This sucks, but, you didn't purchase unlimited and forever access to downloading back-ups of your D&D PDFs. When you purchase a DVD, and lose or break the disc, is anyone responsible for replacing your DVD? It's not really any different for digital files. You purchase it, you download it, and if you lose it, well, that's your problem. A company can go above and beyond to provide back-up service like One Bookshelf did, and that's incredible customer service. But if One Bookshelf goes under, are they under any responsibility to make "forever" downloads possible? Is WotC? No. I sympathize, as I DID backup all of my D&D PDFs purchased from all of those above retailers . . . . and then had some sort of computer melt-down and lost many of my files which are pretty much gone. I'm bummed, but I'm not falling into the trap of getting angry with WotC (not saying that Pragmatic or anyone else here is). [/QUOTE]

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