Rappan Athuk Reloaded at DTRPG.COM

[catsclaw227]

Does anyone know anything about the status from FRPGames? I'm still waiting for the package to ship.

My RARe from FRPGames arrived today.

I must be insane. I preordered one from WW and hope that it's a low number (I bought it on 4-20) and I will likely keep it pristine. The FRP Games one will be my gamer one - #369, no golden ticket - and will see the normal wear and tear. I think I'll even be OK making notes in it, thought I may use the free PDF from my preorder for that.

And... I posted a purchase attempt at Amazon, though I am pretty sure it won't be filled -- I made an attempt to get another Ptolus there too, my #15 will stay pristine until I rot -- so we'll see if I get the amazon one too, then I'll give it to one of my cross-country friends for his B-Day if he is interested, or wait a bit and sell it on ebay. I hope he wants it, but he's not really a dungeon crawl type of DM. I've been pimping NG to him for the past few months and he really LOVED Vault of Larin Karr and LCoB.

 

[trancejeremy]

Heh, I wonder how many of these were bought simply to sell on eBay...

 

[catsclaw227]

Heh, I wonder how many of these were bought simply to sell on eBay...

Well, the amazon one, if I get it, is slated for a birthday present. I am hoping he'll like it as much as I do. The ebay thing is a last resort, really, and I only thought of it because he made an unsolicited comment yesterday about how he's getting tired of dungeon crawls. After I placed the order already.

 

[Omro Gamer]

Heh, I wonder how many of these were bought simply to sell on eBay...

Amazon shipped me three at $21.69 each, two of those I will sell, I'm hoping my profits will pay for my Ptolus

 

[DaveMage]

Amazon shipped me three at $21.69 each, two of those I will sell, I'm hoping my profits will pay for my Ptolus

Will you check them for the golden ticket first?

 

[Kanegrundar]

DTRPG does not set the prices. The individual publishers set their own prices. You will find that many follow the policy of pricing the pdfs at or near the price of the actual books, and some do not.

Ah. I was under the impression that due to the way DTRPG handles the contracts with publishers it almost forces them to set a higher price than they would at other sites like RPGNow. My mistake. However, the point stands that I absolutely refuse to pay anything close to full print price for electronic format.

 

[Voadam]

Uh wow. That's just f****** assinine. If for nothing else DTRPG doesn't get my business just because of the prices of the pdfs. If they were priced decently, like even $30 for GoT for instance, I would consider it. But $99 for an e-book is just plain stupid.

There is a great variety in pricing on dtrpg.

Wilderlands, AGoT, RAR and Midnight are very expensive as are each of the WotC titles and a bunch of the Mongoose ones.

There are also some very good deals. I would suggest a bunch of FFG's legends and lairs series as good pdf D&D values on DTRPG, each are $5

Cityworks a good city resource book with a few neat classes thrown in as well (I'm playing an acrobat in a game right now) http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/catal...Path=36_37&products_id=500&affiliate_id=17596

Monsters Handbook a great Monster modification/template book http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/catal...Path=36_37&products_id=490&affiliate_id=17596

Portals and Planes a planar resource book http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/catal...Path=36_37&products_id=502&affiliate_id=17596

Traps and Treachery, a trap monster manual http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/catal...Path=36_37&products_id=482&affiliate_id=17596

Wildscape, a wilderness resource book with excellent alternate weapon mastery paths for 3.5 rangers http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/catal...Path=36_37&products_id=504&affiliate_id=17596

Also a great deal at $10 is the 3.5 Tome of Horrors Revised from Necromancer Games, hundreds of older edition monsters converted to 3.5 http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=3019&affiliate_id=17596

And Iron Heroes for an alt lower magic item type D&D superheroic combat focused d20 game $14 http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/catal...th=49_252&products_id=2371&affiliate_id=17596 great even if you just want to steal combat feat chains for your D&D game as I did.

 

[catsclaw227]

Add to the list above anything from Malhavoc. They have always sold their PDFs at a greatly reduced rate. Oh, and they have an exclusive partnership as well.

 

[Kanegrundar]

Malhavoc and the 3.5 Tome of Horrors are among my very few purchases from DTRPG.

 

[Estlor]

Just because I'm always interested in the correlation between pricing and online piracy, I went looking on a file sharing program a couple of nights ago to see if a search would get any hits for RAR.

Yup, it's already out there.

That's a lot faster turn-around than the average WotC product, but then again the average WotC product doesn't come already in PDF format. Of course, for my money, I'd be willing to bet this product was already out there before the PDF pricing was made public.

Just some food for thought.

*DISCLAIMER: I am not advocating the piracy of electronic D20 material, nor do I condone or condemn it through this post. This post was not made to spark a debate over the legality/ethicality of PDF piracy or file sharing on a larger level. My comments are strictly from an academic standpoint. I cannot make any comments about the nature of the file being shared as RAR, as I did not attempt to download it. My search was simply to see if it had already made its way into the standard piracy channels.*