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Some Old School Products Disappearing?

Started by Dropbear, December 21, 2021, 02:24:52 PM

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Dropbear

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December 22, 2021, 07:20:33 AM
Quote from: lordmalachdrim on December 22, 2021, 07:17:20 AM
Quote from: Dropbear on December 22, 2021, 06:16:09 AM
Quote from: Persimmon on December 21, 2021, 07:39:36 PM
That would be a wise choice.  You could still use your D&D stuff with C&C and support a company that, to date at least, has resisted the woke mob.  And they just released new versions of their core three books and they have a new omnibus spellbook & CK screen dropping next month so it's a good time to do the switch.

I've backed all of those new C&C releases except the omnibus spell book you mention, which I had not heard of!

I had a weird idea to set my C&C game in Mystara.

The spell book in question was part of the Castles & Crusades Roads to Adventure kickstarter which is running behind and shipping separate from the PHB and other items.

:( Missed that, then. Looking forward to the new core books ad screen though!

Pat

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December 22, 2021, 09:04:30 AM
Quote from: Dropbear on December 22, 2021, 06:40:23 AM
Quote from: Palleon on December 22, 2021, 06:37:04 AM
Quote from: Dropbear on December 22, 2021, 06:13:15 AM
Quote from: Pat on December 21, 2021, 10:51:03 PM
Quote from: estar on December 21, 2021, 03:22:41 PM
Quote from: Dropbear on December 21, 2021, 02:24:52 PM
It is for some reason no longer available as a PoD. Anyone aware of when this happened or why?
So either Lightning Source changed their format or pricing enough and the old version wasn't viable. Or they thought it was good enough quality but it turned out it wasn't and they pulled it. In either case it goes back into the PoD queue they use at Wizards and they will get to it when they get to it.

For example if it was small enough for saddle stitched or used one of the color formats that got decepreatied.
This, most likely. DTRPG has actually been pretty open about this in the past, pulling books because people reported significant errors or because the quality of the scan was considered poor.

Talislanta called to dispute this argument, lol.

I've gone so far as to arrange better scans by far than any that existed of the 2E and especially 3E Talislanta products, and those who claimed responsibility for updating Talislanta files on DTRPG have yet to update those files. The project to complete those scans, assemble those files, and bookmark them was completed in I want to say February of this year or so.  DTRPG is aware that the cleaner files exist. The file for the PoD of the Talislanta Guidebook was and remains to this date horrifically bad, other less so but still of inferior quality. But you will find the files I assisted in putting together of the books from those editions on the official Talislanta site as PDFs.

DriveThru isn't the controller of the timeline around updates.  It's the publisher with the current rights to the material.

I'm not disputing that. I'm disputing that DTRPG will pull poor quality files from PoD production. I mean, all you have to do is view the preview of Talislanta Guidebook to see what I'm referring to in my dispute of that. That book alone is one of, if not the, most poorly-scanned products that I've ever seen there.
Talislanta isn't even vaguely relevant. As Palleon pointed out, DTRPG has nothing to do with the Talislanta files except serving as a host. That's very different from their agreement with Wizards of the Coast, where DTRPG is managing the files, the uploads, and the quality checks for the entire D&D Classics line. If you question that, look at what Matt McElroy has said on various forums, including TBP. They've pulled a number of files, over complaints or qualify concerns, and they've even actively solicited third party scans (which apparently didn't work very well; people sent them a lot of crap).

Ghostmaker

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December 22, 2021, 10:11:14 AM
Quote from: kreegan on December 21, 2021, 05:59:33 PM
Why are you giving money to people who hate you? Either get it on the secondary market or sail the high seas.
Now you're talking my language. :)
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