It's happening again!: DTRRPG.com is selling WotC books!

[Garnfellow]

I think the WotC books are a bad choice for electronic format because their graphic design and art are so nice -- features that really get lost in a PDF. Their books are really built to be experienced physically. My printer couldn't do justice to the color illustrations, and it's hard to enjoy the layout within the window of my computer screen.

 

[Nebulous]

I think, pdfs should be free for a person who bought printed version.

It would be nice, but that would be a lot of rampant .pdf's floating around. I think WotC would rather squeeze some nickels out of that first if possible. And while i do like the searchability of .pdfs, and the portability, and the copy-&-paste, i sort of like having a solid library too. Maybe it's just my old school sensibilities however. One day everything will be light encoded onto Krypton crystal databases and we won't know what the hell paper was.

 

[Mystery Man]

It would be nice, but that would be a lot of rampant .pdf's floating around.

Would be?

 

[RangerWickett]

Well, I'm glad that they've moved in that direction, but I won't be buying at those prices. Annoyingly, they're specifically not offering the three core rulebooks for sale - I would have bought those, even at full price.

Were you aware that you can get all the material from the core rulebooks (except a few Intellectual Property monsters, Greyhawk names in the spell list, and the XP rules) available free online, easily searchable?

www.systemreferencedocuments.org

I'm partial to http://www.systemreferencedocuments.org/index.htm?35/sovelior_sage.htm

As for the price of this WotC deal? Well, y'see, I like it, because if WotC can use their market force to convince consumers pdfs are worth a bit more than they think they are now, it means the little guys like me can charge more.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

I not at all interested in PDFs at print prices.

I would like to see Wizards release the OD&D PDFs, though, because buying used copies runs you around $100 or so, on average. Wizards released a bunch of the OD&D supplements (Greyhawk, Eldritch Wizardy, et cetera) as PDFs, but not the game, itself.

 

[sckeener]

Well, I'm glad that they've moved in that direction, but I won't be buying at those prices. Annoyingly, they're specifically not offering the three core rulebooks for sale - I would have bought those, even at full price.

Makes sense...all the other products are there to push the core 3....plus it is a feel good for the LGS that they will be the only ones carrying the core books.

 

[sckeener]

There is no way I'd take a .pdf over a print book--I don't want my collection to be subject to computer viruses, software incompatibilities, hardware malfunctions, and any other debilitating problem that a PC can cough up. I'll just lug 'em around, thanks.

Since I just recently counted up the shelf space of my gaming material, I think I'll take it in PDF. I even talked about the legal issues of rolling your own PDF in this thread.

I had over 1200 cubic feet of gaming books....I had to have the games at my house and now that I do not have a house (divorce), I need PDFs.

 

[dagger]

Would be?

HAHAHA...


Yea, there already is ocr'ed and bookmarked pdfs floating around.

WoTC needs to lower the prices to a reasonable ammount....

 

[Maggan]

HAHAHA...


Yea, there already is ocr'ed and bookmarked pdfs floating around.

WoTC needs to lower the prices to a reasonable ammount....

I don't think WotC could lower prices enough to make pirating go away. Short of giving stuff away for free, of course.

/M

 

[JustaPlayer]

I myself think companies need to start looking for a better format than PDF. The only reason I would even consider buying a PDF is that it would take me less time to get it into my database then OCRing a scanned version. It's just so much easier when you have every monster, class, prestige class, spell, skill, feat, and more ever printed in an individual single alphabatized view.

Beside the two or more columns in the pdfs make it a hassle to read on a computer.