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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Froderik" data-source="post: 9110611" data-attributes="member: 7031386">I was primarily an AD&D guy back in the day. After being away from the hobby for three decades, I missed all of the post-TSR Gygax works, so I'm kind of thrilled to get an artifact from his last few years without paying collector's prices for it.My impression from the announcement videos is that getting something out and in the hands of consumers as fast as possible is part of what's fueling their initial decision to not clean anything up. I also got the impression that cleaning up the old PDF (created in 20 year old software) without unintentionally destroying the existing layout of the book is also a concern. I think their decision to push this title out with very minor changes (catalog number...) is the right one in this particular case. IIRC, there was also a hint at possibly remastering this title later (TLG loves to redo their stuff) if this initiative to re-release Gygax' later works is deemed a success by his estate.Of course the decision to re-release this book without corrections doesn't excuse TLG for its long history of releasing titles without properly editing them. I'm a fan of their work because much of their C&C catalog gives me the AD&D-feels from my youth, but I recognize that their enthusiasm for parallelizing the creation of (maybe too many) products at a feverish pace often results in products that needed just one or two more passes across an editor's desk.</blockquote>

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