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<blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1548893" data-attributes="member: 10201"><p>You need to buy different PDFs. I'll concur that i've found very few D20 System PDFs that i think are worth $10-12. I've seen slightly more, though still not that many, that i think are "worth" $10-12, but that aren't worth that to me personally. But i've spent as much as $16 on non-D20 System PDFs, and felt i've gotten a bargain. Despite the fact that i really hate reading on screen. There are a *lot* of really excellent PDFs out there. And, don't take my comments above to mean there aren't some great D20 System PDFs out there--i honestly think there're probably more PDFs than books that're worth their price (even if you have to pay Kinko's to print out the PDFs), when it comes to D20 System stuff. </p><p></p><p>But, yeah, paying $10 for a book you're gonna use 5pp of <em>is</em> a bit silly. So don't buy those PDFs. Buy the ones you'll use most of the content of. Don't buy The Complete Book of Horses [fictional example] for a one-time horse-riding character. But if you're gonna play a campaign (or, really, even a session) of Donjon, it's a bargain. RPGs as PDFs are a steal. Broad-topic RPG supplements as PDFs are a bargain. Narrow-topic RPG supplements are often not worth the price, unless you have a particular interest in/use for the topic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="woodelf, post: 1548893, member: 10201"] You need to buy different PDFs. I'll concur that i've found very few D20 System PDFs that i think are worth $10-12. I've seen slightly more, though still not that many, that i think are "worth" $10-12, but that aren't worth that to me personally. But i've spent as much as $16 on non-D20 System PDFs, and felt i've gotten a bargain. Despite the fact that i really hate reading on screen. There are a *lot* of really excellent PDFs out there. And, don't take my comments above to mean there aren't some great D20 System PDFs out there--i honestly think there're probably more PDFs than books that're worth their price (even if you have to pay Kinko's to print out the PDFs), when it comes to D20 System stuff. But, yeah, paying $10 for a book you're gonna use 5pp of [i]is[/i] a bit silly. So don't buy those PDFs. Buy the ones you'll use most of the content of. Don't buy The Complete Book of Horses [fictional example] for a one-time horse-riding character. But if you're gonna play a campaign (or, really, even a session) of Donjon, it's a bargain. RPGs as PDFs are a steal. Broad-topic RPG supplements as PDFs are a bargain. Narrow-topic RPG supplements are often not worth the price, unless you have a particular interest in/use for the topic. [/QUOTE]
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