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<blockquote data-quote="epithet" data-source="post: 7502832" data-attributes="member: 6796566"><p>I find this disingenuous. I have no idea how content creation for Roll20 works, but I know for a fact that SmiteWorks, the company that makes Fantasy Grounds, takes the print file for a D&D book and converts it into a module for WotC. I also am reasonably certain that converting that same file to a marketable pdf is mostly a matter of reducing the file size by de-rezzing imbedded graphics. The idea that you can't, as a publisher, be bothered to both provide the print file to SmiteWorks and tweak your imbedded art to get your pdf to a reasonable size is not one I'm willing to take on faith.</p><p></p><p>This seems like an interesting product, but one which I'll probably pick up as a pdf on RPGnow when it is, inevitably, released there. I might also grab the Fantasy Grounds version, but probably not until I can get a pdf of it. Wizards of the Coast doesn't "do fine" <em>because </em>of their lack of pdf support, they do fine in spite of it. The fact that they do fine despite the rampant proliferation of unsanctioned scanned pdf versions of the 5e product line makes their refusal to actually sell pdfs all the more ridiculous, but as the owners of the D&D brand they can get away with making dumb choices. Kobold is a relatively big 3rd party publisher, but they're still a 3rd party publisher, and they need to quit trying to be clever with this crap. People obviously want pdf versions of the books, and SmiteWorks makes it super easy for them to release a Fantasy Grounds module on the FG storefront, so this move smells like a load of BS to me.</p><p></p><p>Hell, you want to know just how much a load of BS this is? If they just release a pdf, and don't release VTT versions of the product immediately, there are pro-level members of the Fantasy Grounds community that will approach them to do the conversion on their behalf. No, as someone who has backed just about every 5e product Kobold has kickstarted so far, I am more and more turned off by this the more I think about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="epithet, post: 7502832, member: 6796566"] I find this disingenuous. I have no idea how content creation for Roll20 works, but I know for a fact that SmiteWorks, the company that makes Fantasy Grounds, takes the print file for a D&D book and converts it into a module for WotC. I also am reasonably certain that converting that same file to a marketable pdf is mostly a matter of reducing the file size by de-rezzing imbedded graphics. The idea that you can't, as a publisher, be bothered to both provide the print file to SmiteWorks and tweak your imbedded art to get your pdf to a reasonable size is not one I'm willing to take on faith. This seems like an interesting product, but one which I'll probably pick up as a pdf on RPGnow when it is, inevitably, released there. I might also grab the Fantasy Grounds version, but probably not until I can get a pdf of it. Wizards of the Coast doesn't "do fine" [I]because [/I]of their lack of pdf support, they do fine in spite of it. The fact that they do fine despite the rampant proliferation of unsanctioned scanned pdf versions of the 5e product line makes their refusal to actually sell pdfs all the more ridiculous, but as the owners of the D&D brand they can get away with making dumb choices. Kobold is a relatively big 3rd party publisher, but they're still a 3rd party publisher, and they need to quit trying to be clever with this crap. People obviously want pdf versions of the books, and SmiteWorks makes it super easy for them to release a Fantasy Grounds module on the FG storefront, so this move smells like a load of BS to me. Hell, you want to know just how much a load of BS this is? If they just release a pdf, and don't release VTT versions of the product immediately, there are pro-level members of the Fantasy Grounds community that will approach them to do the conversion on their behalf. No, as someone who has backed just about every 5e product Kobold has kickstarted so far, I am more and more turned off by this the more I think about it. [/QUOTE]
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