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How many RPG PDF's on your hard drive?

Started by P&P, March 02, 2006, 08:08:28 AM

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Janos

#15
March 02, 2006, 12:19:55 PM
66 Gigs worth, but that's counting all the different issues of dragon and dungeon as well.  Several thousand different products.
 

BillyBeanbag

#16
March 02, 2006, 12:22:34 PM
I think I have 3 or 4 files... and maybe about the same number of excerpts from specific things I needed or wanted to look up for a character. My hard drive is too small to ever join the hub, much to my chagrin.*


*i.e. didn't have the space to have the minimum of stuff to share to join.
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Nicephorus

#17
March 02, 2006, 12:23:39 PM
Quote from: KnightcrawlerYour not going to be finding any of those for free from "legit" sources.

That's not entirely true.  Once copyright drops, people can put it online and have been more and more.  There's tons of stuff >80 years old.

Sometimes the copyright holder will also put stuff up as free samples, such as Baen does with many of their authors.   There isn't much of this though so most of the stuff online is old.

Name Lips

#18
March 02, 2006, 12:30:20 PM
Quote from: KnightcrawlerDamn, I thougt I had a lot. :eek:
I have this habit when browsing in DC++ to grab people's RPG directories wholesale. It's possible I have some duplicates, since I rarely get the bug to go and organize them. A lot of them are old 1st or 2nd ed adventures, dragon/dungeon mags, and random crap from various obscure RPGs.
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Knightcrawler

#19
March 02, 2006, 12:32:14 PM
Quote from: Name LipsI have this habit when browsing in DC++ to grab people's RPG directories wholesale. It's possible I have some duplicates, since I rarely get the bug to go and organize them. A lot of them are old 1st or 2nd ed adventures, dragon/dungeon mags, and random crap from various obscure RPGs.

About the same here.  ButI've gone through and cleaned everything up and deleted any duplicates.  At least a third of my stuff is old 2nd Edition stuff but its still usefiul for the fluff sections.
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Janos

#20
March 02, 2006, 12:40:53 PM
Quote from: KnightcrawlerAbout the same here.  ButI've gone through and cleaned everything up and deleted any duplicates.  At least a third of my stuff is old 2nd Edition stuff but its still usefiul for the fluff sections.

Yeah ditto, I have pretty close to every PDF for a gaming supplement available right now.  I have a naming system and clean it up pretty constantly so it's fairly well organized.  I have two hard drives storing stuff too, an older one that I'm slowly converting to a new file system/type and dumping into the newer larger one.

I'm also constantly looking for newer, smaller, cleaner, OCR versions of files, since a lot of the initial scans, especially for major name brand stuff, is garbage.
 

Knightcrawler

#21
March 02, 2006, 12:47:50 PM
Quote from: JanosYeah ditto, I have pretty close to every PDF for a gaming supplement available right now.  I have a naming system and clean it up pretty constantly so it's fairly well organized.  I have two hard drives storing stuff too, an older one that I'm slowly converting to a new file system/type and dumping into the newer larger one.

I'm also constantly looking for newer, smaller, cleaner, OCR versions of files, since a lot of the initial scans, especially for major name brand stuff, is garbage.


Hmmmmm.....we may have to touch base.  You might have some stuff that I've been looking for.
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Janos

#22
March 02, 2006, 12:50:47 PM
Quote from: KnightcrawlerHmmmmm.....we may have to touch base.  You might have some stuff that I've been looking for.

Let me know, and if you're looking for a particular product I can check the older hard drive too.
 

Knightcrawler

#23
March 02, 2006, 12:53:44 PM
Quote from: JanosLet me know, and if you're looking for a particular product I can check the older hard drive too.

I'll PM you at SO with a couple of things.
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Cyclotron

#24
March 02, 2006, 02:10:18 PM
I've got a few...  Maybe two dozen or so.

Most of them are old Basic and 1st ed. AD&D modules that I used to have, but lost.  The rest are interesting little bits that I picked up, but never really got a chance to use.  

I've kind of slowed down on my PDF purchases lately, due to the lengthy download times of my dialup connaction at home.
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#25
March 02, 2006, 03:38:40 PM
i might like to finally join the hub when my computer is back up and running...  i don't know how many PDFs i have, but there are a lot.
don't quote me on that.  :)

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#26
March 02, 2006, 04:02:18 PM
I could the total on both hands and I've only paid for one of them.
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Knightcrawler

#27
March 02, 2006, 04:04:15 PM
Quote from: fett527I could the total on both hands and I've only paid for one of them.

Paid?  Whats that?  :D
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Varaj

#28
March 02, 2006, 04:20:45 PM
I don't think I have any.  I will download one once in awhile to evaulate a book.  I either buy the book and delete the pdf or I don't buy the book and delete the pdf.
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obryn

#29
March 02, 2006, 05:43:14 PM
Too many. :o

I always buy the ones I use in a game, though.

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