Quality of WOTC's PDFs?

[Heretic Apostate]

Okay, if I were to buy these PDFs, how useful would they be? Is the scanning company doing a good job of scanning? It'd be easier to lug these around on a burned CD than a couple of huge boxes. (Believe me, I'm eminently qualified to make that distinction. )

It's too bad that they don't offer to burn them onto a CD for you. I don't know how big these items are, but on a 56k modem, it's way too big....

 

[Requiem]

Hi,

From what Ive seen the quality of the scanning is very very good. Been very happy with my PDF's so far.

Your looking at between 10mb (for supplements) to 50 mb (for boxed sets) I think.

Requiem

 

[humble minion]

The ones I have are all pretty good on the whole, though I've only got a handful (cos of the whole 56k modem thing)

The only thing to be careful of is boxed sets with poster maps in them. The maps end up split into a4 pages, completely unreadable on screen. Printing them out might help, but I haven't felt the need to burn an entire toner cartridge to test this theory yet.

 

[Mark]

Okay, if I were to buy these PDFs, how useful would they be? Is the scanning company doing a good job of scanning? It'd be easier to lug these around on a burned CD than a couple of huge boxes. (Believe me, I'm eminently qualified to make that distinction. )

It's too bad that they don't offer to burn them onto a CD for you. I don't know how big these items are, but on a 56k modem, it's way too big....

Ahem... I thought you were sworn off from buying anything RPG related for the rest of you life... What will the SO say?

 

[JeffB]

Most are excellent....

Some though..and it seems to be the modules from oh say 1982 till about 1987 or so had some really thin paper..they did not turn out real well...at least comparitively..In fact quite awhile back Jim Butler had said something to the effect on one of thee D&D mailing lists...the paper quality was low and some things just did not scan very well.

Which is kind of funny (strange) as that's the time period when Gary had stated something to the effect that against his wishes the quality of the materials (paper, binding, etc) was lowered...

 

[Heretic Apostate]

Re: Re: Quality of WOTC's PDFs?

Ahem... I thought you were sworn off from buying anything RPG related for the rest of you life... What will the SO say?

No, I swore off trying to collect everything in sight. It's an addiction. Now, I'm looking over the stuff that's on PDFs, and wondering what, in a couple years, I might like to pick up. Not going to do it now, that's for sure.

The only things RPG-related that I might pick up this year are GURPS Uplift (revised) and GURPS Alpha Centauri. And I'll probably try to pick those up at a discount.

As for S.O., there ain't none.

 

[Mark]

Re: Re: Re: Quality of WOTC's PDFs?

As for S.O., there ain't none.

Sorry to hear, brother.

You sure are right about the addiction, though. It's really hard to pass up quality stuff when you see it. Speaking of which, there are some freebies that can be garnered from the CMG site (link in sig)...

 

[Moon_Goddess]

I remember Jim Butler also making a comment about how the earliest ESDs were of better quality than some of the later ones, becuase the early ones were made by the same crew as the Dragon Archive, and in those days money grew on trees, pokemon trees.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Quality of WOTC's PDFs?

You sure are right about the addiction, though. It's really hard to pass up quality stuff when you see it.

Trouble was, I wasn't just buying the quality stuff. I was picking about a dozen publishers, and trying desperately to buy everything.

When I DO get back into gaming, it'll be more of a pick-and-choose.