New Traveller - "Permisson to Board?"

[Fritz_Brown]

Actually, the booklet printing is a function of the printer, usually. It has to be able to do double-sided printing (even if it's manual - the concept has to be in the printer utility).

PDFs can't yet replace printed copies for me. But, they are getting close.

 

[Icosahedron]

PDFs can't yet replace printed copies for me. But, they are getting close.

PDFs are a long way off for me. Ok, so I'm a miserly old dinosaur, but: :smirk:

1) I can only read PDFs in one room of one building, cos my bank account doesn't support the latest portable this and mobile that.

2) At my age, even if I had a portable this and mobile that, I wouldn't be able to read the screen.

3) Yes, I could carry PDFs on a stick, but then I've got to grovel to use someone else's machine to play them and hope my stick doesn't get infected in the process.

4) When I get to a computer and I've waited three minutes for it to start up, I can only view one page at a time, so flicking between pages to see rule 59 and table 4 together is effectively impossible.

5) Yeah, I think there is some facility for viewing documents side by side on the screen, but see items 1 and 2 above. I can't read the print at that scale without the 'Megaview Croesus 78 inch flat screen monitor' that is so much more important than four new tyres.


PDFs are searchable - that's good, I suppose.

 

[aramis]

Actually, the booklet printing is a function of the printer, usually. It has to be able to do double-sided printing (even if it's manual - the concept has to be in the printer utility).

PDFs can't yet replace printed copies for me. But, they are getting close.

Not on the mac side. It's built in to acrobat reader. It wasn't in older versions, and may not be in other systems. I do have to flip the pages, and run them through again, but the rest (including ordering them correctly) is handled by acrobat.

Icosahedron:
PDF is intended to be printed locally for such purposes.

Another nice feature: for MoTrav PT Draft 1, I printed 3 copies for player use: 1 full copy, and 2 with just CGen and Tasks.

All:

PDF's have actually created a whole new avenue for gaming purchases. It's really looking like PDF is keeping several "discontinued" systems available. Like CT, MT, TNE, T4, BTVS, Classic D&D, Old D&D (BXCM), AD&D1, AD&D2, CP2020, MektonZ, Earthdawn, Battletech... and more.

It is a viable means, and given the impending SRD for MoTrav, may result in a variety of Traveller variants available in PDF.

Note that the MRQ SRD has not resulted in large adoption of the MRQ engine, but has resulted in a few. (GORE, for example.)

 

[Jeffr0]

Where's the best place to get PDFs of the classic D&D and AD&D books?

 

[Icosahedron]

Yes, I do print PDFs locally, thereby paying for the material twice.
(Guess which side of the bed I got out this morning?)

PDFs keeping out-of-print material on the market is another very valid plus. I'm all in favour of anything that keeps game material in the public domain.
The material was designed to be used, after all.

 

[aramis]

Jeffr0: only place is rpgnow.com aka drivethroughrpg.com (same entity since last year).

 

[Jeffr0]

Good Grief!

I just checked out paizo's AD&D and D&D first edition stuff. They even have Chainmail!

Please, someone tell me that they scans are awful and that they suck in general.

(Man, I thought I'd never see another copy of "Where Chaos Reigns"....)

I note that they don't have my precious Green Dragon edition basic and expert D&D....

Paizo's service and updates are going to be better than other places, right?

 

[Fritz_Brown]

I can't read the print at that scale without the 'Megaview Croesus 78 inch flat screen monitor' that is so much more important than four new tyres.

Dude, tires must be really expensive for your car... o:

 

[aramis]

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Please, someone tell me that they scans are awful and that they suck in general.
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Paizo's service and updates are going to be better than other places, right?

The scans vary. The Cyclopedia is good, but the OCR is really weak. The Gaz series varies.

And no, Paizo is post-n-forget.

 

[Icosahedron]

Dude, tires must be really expensive for your car... o:

A 'senior moment', I'm afraid. Well nitpicked.

Yes, a normal flat screen is weighed against the tyres, hence I still have a heavy glass tube in front of me.

One of those new-fangled wall-mounted plasma thingys would cost more than a replacement car, hence I still have another heavy glass tube in the corner, and a pile of rust outside. C'est la vie.

(Note to self - place bed against opposite wall.)

 

[Jeffr0]

It kills me to have to buy PDF's from anywhere other than e23.

(No DRM or Watermark, email notification of any updates, download my files as many times as I like...)