Tome of Horrors Revised watermarked PDF now available on drivethrurpg.com

[philreed]

Time for me to see if I can make the site work for me. For some reason DTRPG hasn't been working right on my system for about a month now. And I really want this updated PDF.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Got it! Man, this is SWEEEET! My players are going to hate me!

 

[afstanton]

Heck, it'd be great to see this as a POD if there isn't enough demand for a full blown print run.

Is that a possibility sometime?

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Heck, it'd be great to see this as a POD if there isn't enough demand for a full blown print run.

Is that a possibility sometime?

If I recall properly DTRPG does not offer POD.

And ToH is 'uge! (And the revised version is even bigger...)

The Auld Grump

 

[Kanegrundar]

You know, it is things like this that make me miss my old dial up connection... the sweet anticipation as the the download slowly chugs toward completion.

Going AHA! and having the product seconds later just isn't the same.

The Auld Grump

You are a odd duck sometimes, AG! I don't miss those days, but then again I've always been a bit impatient!

Excellent download for a decent price. Now I can try and sell my old print copy....

 

[Orcus]

Hi everyone!

I am really happy to finally be able to get the Tome Revised to people who want it. Here is an excerpt from my new Intro I wrote for the Revised version of the book. Hopefully it explains some of the thinking behind the revision.

Introduction to the Revised Edition

Since the v3.5 Revised edition of the D&D rules came out I have been struggling with the decision of whether or not to revise the Tome of Horrors. It has been a difficult decision.

The quality of the book wasn’t what made the decision difficult. Tome of Horrors has always been universally regarded as a great book. It has been critically acclaimed by reviewers. Other d20 publishers love it because it is 100% Open Game Content, meaning they can use the monsters from the Tome of Horrors in their products. I have also always personally felt that Tome is one of the few d20 books that truly is a mandatory addition to any DM’s bookshelf.

Even Monte Cook raved about it, and I think Monte is dead on:

If a role playing game is a gun, then a monster book is the ammunition. If that’s the case, then Tome of Horrors is a case of hollow point, explosive shells.

The problem was the book itself.

The book was just too big to reprint without cutting content or substantially raising the price, or both. There was no way we were going to cut down on the number of monsters. If people buy a revised version of a book, I think they rightfully expect all the monsters from the original to be revised. And it just didn’t seem right to charge a higher price for a revision than for the original book. So because we refused to cut the size of the book and because we refused to raise the price of the book, there was no book. And that is where I thought the decision would end. But luckily it didn’t.

That’s where DriveThruRPG.com came in…

I think we have found the right format and the right method of getting the revision to the fans. Scott Greene, our monster guru, has been working since the revisions came out to update the Tome monsters. And once the stars aligned and we hit on the PDF solution, we gave the green light to our main man Mike Chaney to do a totally new layout of the book designed for maximum usefulness as a PDF. Monsters were laid out as much as possible with a “1 page to a monster” design, something that is nearly impossible in a print product. New art was incorporated. Errata was included. All to bring the classic monsters found in the Tome of Horrors up to date with the current edition of the rules.

So thanks to the persistence of the fans, and thanks to DriveThruRPG.com, it is now my great pleasure to present to you the Tome of Horrors Revised — a case of revised hollow point, explosive shells.

I hope you enjoy firing off these bad boys as much as I do.

--Clark Peterson
Necromancer Games

 

[johnsemlak]

Please tell be this is a bookmarked version.

 

[Keith Robinson]

Please tell be this is a bookmarked version.

Alas, no bookmarks. Every monster in the menu is linked, however, so moving from the menu to the desired critter is easy enough - you just need to keep returning to the menu!

I'll almost certainly be printing it out, so it's not going to be a problem

 

[Keith Robinson]

Time for me to see if I can make the site work for me. For some reason DTRPG hasn't been working right on my system for about a month now. And I really want this updated PDF.

Do you use firefox or IE? For me, DTRPG has always struggled in firefox and I've had to do my browsing/shopping etc through IE.

If you have no joy either way, let me know and I'll grab a copy for you.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Do you use firefox or IE? For me, DTRPG has always struggled in firefox and I've had to do my browsing/shopping etc through IE.

Really? I've never had any problems shopping at DTRPG using Firefox.