aia wrote in 5E Dark Tower:Afaik no pdf will ever be released for OAR books... This was one of the main messages at the beginning... If now they changed their minds i wonder whether they will release pdfs even for previous books or not...
mbassoc2003 wrote in 5E Dark Tower:The books in this range are too big to be practically used at the gaming table.
jkason wrote in 5E Dark Tower:No idea if the PDF will be separate. Previous releases in this line have none due to IP issues.
jkason wrote in 5E Dark Tower:Nope. Still no PDFs for the OAR series derived from TSR/Wizards/Hasbro IPs.
mbassoc2003 wrote in 5E Dark Tower:Besides....Why spend $200 on a boxed set that in all likelihood you'll never read or play?The presence of the PDF limits any appreciation in value of common publications. So the only thing you get is well put together book end for the stuff on your bookshelf that you do read and play.You can download the PDF for free. It takes up substantially less room. Will also never be read or played, and frees up $200 to spend on something you will read and play with, or something that is going to add value to your collection.If you're
jkason wrote in 5E Dark Tower:Edit - Those PDFs of the OAR series are not exactly....legal/official. While they may have been ripped from a digital file that was used for printing, they have never been offered up for retail sale.
mbassoc2003 wrote in 5E Dark Tower:I much prefer dead tree products myself. But I never read 95% of my collection. I've never read Yggsburgh or Rappan Athuk or CSIO or most of the other well known products of reasonable quality that have wandered into my collection. With Yggsburgh it was purchased on account of its Author. With CSIO it was a nostalgia thing. With Rappan Athuk is was sheer size I guess. But they all remain unread. I suspect a huge chunk of collectors are the same with their collections. We have disposable income because we work hard and well. That takes up the bulk of our time. We almost all of us have families and life to live, and this hobby is what gets fitted in around all of that. How do you find time to read everything you buy?