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<blockquote data-quote="Echohawk" data-source="post: 9310017" data-attributes="member: 9849">Jim Butler started the ESD project while he was still as WotC, then left and formed Bastion Press and entered into an agreement with WotC to continue the scanning. I think that the first PDFs went on sale in 2001. According to an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20011020201900/http://www.bastionpress.com/esd.htm" target="_blank">early snapshot of the Bastion Press website</a>, ESDs could initially be purchased directly from the WotC online store. I think that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030401114353/http://www.svgames.com/downloads.html" target="_blank">SVGames</a> also started selling them in late 2001 or early 2002, and according to <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/svgames-sucks.49006/" target="_blank">this ENWorld thread</a> by 2003 the PDFs were also available from RPGNow.

Also, this thread made me feel old, so thanks for that <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Echohawk, post: 9310017, member: 9849"] [JUSTIFY]Jim Butler started the ESD project while he was still as WotC, then left and formed Bastion Press and entered into an agreement with WotC to continue the scanning. I think that the first PDFs went on sale in 2001. According to an [URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20011020201900/http://www.bastionpress.com/esd.htm']early snapshot of the Bastion Press website[/URL], ESDs could initially be purchased directly from the WotC online store. I think that [URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20030401114353/http://www.svgames.com/downloads.html']SVGames[/URL] also started selling them in late 2001 or early 2002, and according to [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/svgames-sucks.49006/']this ENWorld thread[/URL] by 2003 the PDFs were also available from RPGNow. Also, this thread made me feel old, so thanks for that :D[/JUSTIFY] [/QUOTE]

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