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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 1493124" data-attributes="member: 725">Let me start by pointing out that the incentive to buy the book is primaily to have an actual book in hand to read through. Trust me, even a technophiliac like me still appreciates an actual book in hand. Secondarily is to have some nice illustrations and a nice cover. Third your sponsering creative talent.An example is Green Ronin's Hammer and Helm, a product from 2002, almost 2 years old. If GR is still making lots of dough off this book then i really need to re-evaluate the D20 industry, but i don't really think that they still sell a lot of these. It features 45 high quality b&w illustrations and a handsome color cover, not to mention a spiffy layout. It's 112 pages long and when you buy it at <a href="http://www.taloncomics.com" target="_blank">www.taloncomics.com</a> it only costs $16.95, more than worth it if it where only to get a physical product (and save on printing costs).Now for the value of transcribing the text verbatim. Making it less dificult for other people to use it in their works and not promoting the reinvention of the wheel. A document that only lists the actual OGC should be a big help to most people that want to use OGC. The OGC copy of a single book might not have much value, but a library of OGC books has the value of being searchable and can be used to find the OGC rules that best fit your style. One book is a start for more to come.I'm currently working on some OGC verbatim books that contain material that i think adds value to the basic Fantasy D20 game. For now that's all the OGC vrom GR's Book of the Righteous, with some additional material form Legions of Hell, Armies of the Abyss, Unholy Warrior's Handbook, Avatar's Handbook, and the Book of Fiends. Avatar's Handbook will follow first for verbatim OGC, then Legion's of Hell, Armies of the Abyss, and Unholy Warrior's Handbook, and finally after Book of Fiends has been out for six months i'll add the OGC verbatim. With the OGC material between those books i can fill a hole in the current SRD: a good pantheon of gods and a decent plane structure. That's OGC from six awesome books to plug a 'hole'. If people want more of this goodness, like awesome images, 'fluff' text for the monsters, and the rest of the BotR 'bible' they'll have to buy the books. I'll be asking GR if they're interested in providing an advertisemnet page to be included in these works. And i've already seen a couple of gaps in the already available works, like the Avatar and Holy Warrior for v.3.5, write ups for Demogorgon, Orcus, etc., developing Byldgewater and Cacoethes further, delving deeper into the angelic choirs and the fallen angels, some actual churches/locations where people worship the gods of the tree, etc. After this i've got my eyes set on Fantasy Flight's Path of Books. UA just is a whole bunch of goodness that just has no equal among the D20 publishers.</blockquote>

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