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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagpuss" data-source="post: 1586788" data-attributes="member: 3987">Depends certainly not at Fantasy Flight Games prices...Lets see shall I pop to my local games shop and buy a print copy of Dungeoncraft for $24.95, or order a print copy on Amazon for $19.95or order the electronic version from DriveThruRPG for $24.00.$0.95 is ment to be a saving? Perhaps it they included a free toner cartridge?I'm interested in Fiery Dragon's counters but I wish they wouldn't advertise them as... "Over 200 distinct counter images by artist Claudio Pozas OVER 475 COUNTERS INCLUDED!" There arn't 475 counters included there are no counters included it's electronic, there are 475 images of which 275 are repeats, which in an electronic format are pointless! So really you are only paying for 200 images, so $18.95 (hard copy) down to $10.00 for the electronic version isn't a worth while saving. Actually that's $0.05 cents an unique image before printing, compared to $0.03 per actual counter in the hardcopy. It's more expensive before you've even printed them and considerably more expensive to produce a poorer quality counter.Are the these companies insane? Those companies that are offering their PDF's at half price look a bit more interesting. But I'm use to RPGNow prices where virtually nothing is over $10 dollars. So even then they look expensive, from the free ones I've downloaded they are just scans of books, with no effort put into bookmarking them. Some arn't even OCR'ed as the original book was particularly colourful (Buffy springs to mind), so it would be inpractical. The PDF's produced from small PDF only publishers put this most of these big companies to shame.It seems to me that most of these companies have no idea what the PDF market wants in a product and are just pushing out overpriced scans of OOP books, considering what they are competing against (free illegal scans of their books, or rival PDF publishers that actually know how to produce a decent PDF [which don't have the requirement to be online to register Acrobat]), you think they might lower their prices or improve their product somewhat.So until they look more appealing the answer is going to be no.</blockquote>

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