jamesmishler wrote:James Maliszewski has reviewed XXXI on his blog at Grognardia, giving it "4 out of 5 polearms":http://grognardia.blogspot.com/
FormCritic wrote:Any thoughts on, perhaps, a pdf of XXXI to go with my hardcopy?(I left a comment on the review, by the way.)
jamesmishler wrote:My thoughts have evolved a bit about the PDF situation. Still considering it, and I will be looking into options.Being a bit of a Luddite myself, and having not purchased any PDFs for my own use, when I picked up the Pathfinder RPG PDF and discovered that they actually personalize each page, well, that came a s quite a surprise! So with that option available, I'm reconsidering my stance on PDFs. Still need to delve into the particulars, though...
FormCritic wrote:Critics of pdf's hate them because they reduce the rarity of their game collections (which is true...to a small extent...but not necessarily critical)
Busman wrote:Rarity of the print version isn't reduced, only the rarity on the information. Information rarity hardly ever controls the pricing on the physical copies of something, and almost never for the long haul. Collectors will collect to collect. Dispersal of information increases the likelihood of there being more collectors thus driving up demand, while supply remains constant.
faro wrote:Can work both ways, with extremes at either end.Taking a non-RPG example, I paid £200 in the late 80s for a run of National Geographics from 1930 through 1967 in leather-bound semi-annual volumes (an uncle got me started on those in the mid-70s is my excuse, OK ).When the DVD came out, the market "value" for those nose-dived to near-zero almost overnight regardless of relative quality of reproduction; whereas the earliest volumes retained most, if not all of their "value".*A similar pattern was repeated for Dragon, since those simply weren't rare enough to retain any premium.Whether any increased value due to greater awareness of a generally unknown /and/ rare item actually outweighs the /previous/ premium being paid by certain individuals after release of any .pdf version is a bit of a turkey shoot to be honest. 02c/ymmv, anyhow.d.
FormCritic wrote:Pdf's would increase James' profits, not reduce them. It would be a way to expand his market and make gamers aware of AGP and the Wilderlands...while adding some cash to his account.I didn't mean to make this a pdf strand.I just wanted to use my copy without wrecking it.
killjoy32 wrote:point taken mark!so buy another my friend