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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HellHound" data-source="post: 497244" data-attributes="member: 3397">(Sigh... lets try writing this one again... tried posting this all day for four days now...)I don't feel comfortable releasing a crunch-only PDF.A lot of people have had their introduction to PDF products via a pirate copy of one. These would-be-customers in many cases are impressed enough by the quality of the product to go to RPGnow and purchase the book they pirated, or at least purchase other PDFs in the same line.But what if all they saw was a small PDF of nothing but crunch?The tendency among the pirates is to distribute the smallest version of a document from a package. In the case of Everyone Else, the printer-friendly edition was propagated by the pirates because it was smaller than the normal version. The printer-only version is of course lacking in graphical layout as well as the extensive bookmarking that makes the screen version so useful (IMO). This is why the Printer-Friendly version of <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=531&" target="_blank">Crimson Contracts </a> is only 8 pages of the 129 page PDF. These are replacements for the 8 pages that are ink-hogs in the original screen-friendly document. No pirate in his right mind will propagate only this edition of the document.On the other hand, I CAN see pirates distributing the crunch-only copy of the document, should one exist. I feel that this would lose many would-be-customers who pick up a pirate copy and get turned off by the dry rules-only text, as well as actually making piracy easier by having the smaller file to propagate.So there we go.</blockquote>

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