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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6775150" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f635.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="o_O" title="Er... what?    o_O"  data-smilie="12"data-shortname="o_O" /> ... Just goes to show you that the whole "different strokes for different folks" is alive and kicking! <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    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Time for some "blatant plagerism" (for emphasis):Me? Complete opposite outlook than you. "I won't purchase (or be loath to at the least) a multi-session adventure that comes only as full color print. If I am in the market for an adventure I'm going to be using for multiple sessions (something I will be looking at, reading, thumbing through, and generally relying on), I want great production quality. And I'm willing to pay more to get a high quality product. Full colour products aren't something I want to spend a significant amount of my time using. My preference is for a PDF product with beautifully done b/w and greyscale art. If a print is included in the purchase price, great. It's handy to have both the hard copy and the .pdf, but the print is what I'll be least likely to most often go to".<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I'm not sure if I'm picking this up from you or not...but...do you honestly think that you can't have a quality product that is b/w/greyscale? I think you and I also have a difference in opinion on "quality product". To me, having something full colour, with fancy boarders, coloured text on an image background (like 'parchment' or 'stone', etc), and artwork that frequently takes up a quarter or more of a page, with 'wrap around' text is the opposite of "quality RPG product" (notice I said RPG?). For me, a DM, I want easy to read (no colour ink or background), easy to follow (no/very little wrap around text), and most definitely no glossy pages necessary for all that colour, and easy to write in or otherwise mark up stuff in the adventure...hence my preference for PDF's.That said...what really cheeses my wheels is when a product it created in PDF/digital, and then the publisher basically treats that PDF as nothing more than a text file with pictures. *fume* If you are going to make a digital-only product using PDF, use the cool stuff in PDF's!!!. If you have a boarder or fancy background, put it on a layer I can turn off if/when I want to print. If you have art, put it on a layer that I can turn off or otherwise 'degrade' somehow for less ink-intinsive printing. Take the maps and give me options to print them in B/W, "line" B/W, "old skool blue", etc., and let me turn on/off important stuff on them like room numbers and secret doors/areas so I can print "player maps" if I need/want to. Most importantly, use links for important locations, monsters, spells, etc., and even put in links to stuff you (the publisher/writer) have on the web ("digital downloads" for sounds, music, or other useful/fun stuff). A linked Index is a must. But link a new monster to the write up for it. Link a numbered location on a map to that locations description or whatever. In short, take advantage of all the cool stuff  you can do with a PDF that you can't with a printed product.Anyway...1e modules FTW! (as far as what I think is the best quality product...I wish there were PDF's back when 1e was still 'new').^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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