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<blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1530397" data-attributes="member: 10201">Out of curiosity, any particular reason you didn't keep a &quot;pristine&quot; copy on your drive, for future reference?Anyway, i think that's why i haven't pushed that hard on this: i don't really care. See, for the most part, i'm underwhelmed with the content in Unearthed Arcana, same as most WotC books. There are only a couple bits i might even maybe use, and none that i'd use without significant alteration (which makes a verbatim scan that much less useful). And D20 System stuff, save two particular projects, is pretty low on my priority list, in general. I'm just not a crunchy-system person, usually, so i more often get fired up about things like Four Colors al Fresco than a social-centric D20 System. But the latter will probably get finished, to prove it can be done, and 'cause i think it's rather clever. As for the Unearthed Arcana extraction itself: i'd be doing it for gamers, not for me. But the layout, that's for me: i'll jump at almost any chance i get to (1) hone my layout skills, especially in a forum that could garner lots of feedback and critiques and (2) slap The Impossible Dream's name on it, and get us into the gamers' consciousness. So, i'm not gonna buy the book, 'cause i'll likely never use it. And i'll definetely never use enough of it to justify $35--i'll buy the new shoujo BESM supplement, or the latest Ars Magica book, or A|State, instead. So i don't have it to OCR. But, give me the digital text, and i'll jump to it (unless that happens during crunch time for our first book, in which case it'll just have to wait).Now, if someone wants to collaborate on an SRD extraction of Spycraft, i might be persuaded... (And i'll probably be doing Arcana Unearthed myself, in any case--though i'll, like you, probably only do the bits i'm gonna use.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="woodelf, post: 1530397, member: 10201"] Out of curiosity, any particular reason you didn't keep a "pristine" copy on your drive, for future reference? Anyway, i think that's why i haven't pushed that hard on this: i don't really care. See, for the most part, i'm underwhelmed with the content in Unearthed Arcana, same as most WotC books. There are only a couple bits i might even maybe use, and none that i'd use without significant alteration (which makes a verbatim scan that much less useful). And D20 System stuff, save two particular projects, is pretty low on my priority list, in general. I'm just not a crunchy-system person, usually, so i more often get fired up about things like Four Colors al Fresco than a social-centric D20 System. But the latter will probably get finished, to prove it can be done, and 'cause i think it's rather clever. As for the Unearthed Arcana extraction itself: i'd be doing it for gamers, not for me. But the layout, that's for me: i'll jump at almost any chance i get to (1) hone my layout skills, especially in a forum that could garner lots of feedback and critiques and (2) slap The Impossible Dream's name on it, and get us into the gamers' consciousness. So, i'm not gonna buy the book, 'cause i'll likely never use it. And i'll definetely never use enough of it to justify $35--i'll buy the new shoujo BESM supplement, or the latest Ars Magica book, or A|State, instead. So i don't have it to OCR. But, give me the digital text, and i'll jump to it (unless that happens during crunch time for our first book, in which case it'll just have to wait). Now, if someone wants to collaborate on an SRD extraction of Spycraft, i might be persuaded... (And i'll probably be doing Arcana Unearthed myself, in any case--though i'll, like you, probably only do the bits i'm gonna use.) [/QUOTE]

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