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Great News For Us Old Fogies!

Started by Elfdart, August 29, 2012, 11:44:18 PM

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Elfdart

August 29, 2012, 11:44:18 PM
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QuoteThe most startling news out of the keynote was the stopgap that will keep gamers happy (and buying stuff) through 2013: Wizards plans to release every single D&D product from the game's historied past in digital form. Every edition, every sourcebook, every adventure. This is surprising not only because it's a very ambitious undertaking, but because Wizards shut down all ebooks three years ago. That's right: official, legal digital versions of D&D books have not existed since early 2009. This is quite a turnaround.

Now they're putting out something I would buy!
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Black Vulmea

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August 29, 2012, 11:49:54 PM
Not news.

Possibly not pdfs.

Maybe subsciption based.

Waiting and seeing.
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Skywalker

#2
August 30, 2012, 12:12:25 AM
As an Old Fogie myself, I agree that it will be good to have 4e books finally in electronic format. :cool:

David Johansen

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August 30, 2012, 12:49:11 AM
But no Boot Hill, Gamma World, Top Secret, Dawn Patrol, Gangbusters, or Starfrontiers...

Color me unimpressed.
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Spinachcat

#4
August 30, 2012, 02:36:55 AM
I would not be surprised those other lines come out too. If they own the material, there is no good reason to not add everything TSR to the ebook pile.

I guess the anti-PDF guy got fired and a pro-PDF guy got promoted. Or the CEO just learned the concept of "long tail" in a Six Sigma Black Belt Ultra weekend seminar and now demands that all departments jump on this long tail bandwagon thingie.

Kiero

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August 30, 2012, 05:11:27 AM
Quote from: Skywalker;578227As an Old Fogie myself, I agree that it will be good to have 4e books finally in electronic format. :cool:

Haha, well played, sir, well played.
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Exploderwizard

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August 30, 2012, 08:44:07 AM Last Edit: August 30, 2012, 09:47:29 AM by Exploderwizard
I will only get excited and start setting aside cash if there is a POD part of this.

I want modules I can touch and feel. I want to stand the cover with the map up behind my DM screen and scribble notes in the margins. I want the cheetos stains on page 8 to be a reminder of how awesome a particular night of gaming was.

Most importantly, I don't want to fucking rent it.
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August 30, 2012, 08:59:21 AM
Quote from: David Johansen;578236But no Boot Hill, Gamma World, Top Secret, Dawn Patrol, Gangbusters, or Starfrontiers...

Color me unimpressed.


While I feel for you (and me) on everything else Star Frontiers is available for free online in remastered format (and yes legitimately.)
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August 30, 2012, 09:35:56 AM
yeah, I know, but I want to feel hurt and neglected :D
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Black Vulmea

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August 30, 2012, 10:33:35 AM
Quote from: Spinachcat;578251I guess the anti-PDF guy got fired and a pro-PDF guy got promoted.
So far I don't believe they've said anything about pdfs at all. They may have a subscription ebook model instead.

If they release the pdfs again, they can have some of my money. If they try to bilk me for a monthly fee, they can fuck off.
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jeff37923

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August 30, 2012, 01:25:45 PM
Quote from: Exploderwizard;578291Most importantly, I don't want to fucking rent it.

This, a million times this.
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RandallS

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August 30, 2012, 01:37:20 PM
Quote from: Black Vulmea;578309If they release the pdfs again, they can have some of my money. If they try to bilk me for a monthly fee, they can fuck off.

Exactly. I'll buy PDFs, assuming they are reasonable priced, printable and copy/paste enabled. I will not do a monthly fee for access -- at least not for the type of access they used on DDI.
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#12
August 30, 2012, 03:22:07 PM
Quote from: Exploderwizard;578291I want the cheetos stains on page 8 to be a reminder of how awesome a particular night of gaming was.


That was beautiful.

Bill

#13
August 30, 2012, 03:25:02 PM
Quote from: David Johansen;578236But no Boot Hill, Gamma World, Top Secret, Dawn Patrol, Gangbusters, or Starfrontiers...

Color me unimpressed.

No Gamma World or Star Frontiers?

*Nerdrages!!!!!!!*

Tetsubo

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August 31, 2012, 11:37:44 AM
Quote from: David Johansen;578236But no Boot Hill, Gamma World, Top Secret, Dawn Patrol, Gangbusters, or Starfrontiers...

Color me unimpressed.

Star Frontiers is free and legal for the taking.

I still want to flesh out the rest of my SAGA library of physical books. But nothing I want nor need in the electronic versions. I have all the other TSR and WotC books I want already.
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