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Posted by: Wounded Ronin Jan 6 2013, 09:52 AM

So, I'm out in the Federated States of Micronesia for a while, and I've gotten a hankering for a PDF of the 1st edition D&D players guide and DMG. I thought that these things were available for purchase online, but I can't find them anywhere.

I don't want to ship rare books to myself (and pay rare book prices) for material that will quickly degrade in the jungle.

Anyone know a place that is still providing legit electronic copies?

-Sage

Posted by: Bigity Jan 6 2013, 02:48 PM

I think Wizards of the Coast was, but IIRC they have stopped selling any PDF products?

Posted by: Wounded Ronin Jan 7 2013, 10:40 AM

Hey, look what I found:

http://www.knights-n-knaves.com/osric/

If you can't get a 1st edition PDF anymore, here's an open license re-creation of the basic 1st edition rules.

Take a look. Hmm, maybe I can use this.

Posted by: KarmaInferno Jan 7 2013, 11:17 PM

QUOTE (Bigity @ Jan 6 2013, 09:48 AM)

I think Wizards of the Coast was, but IIRC they have stopped selling any PDF products?

A couple of folks were caught distributing WotC PDFs a few years ago so Hasbro panicked and pulled ALL their PDFs off the market.

Which was kinda stupid. Instead of having a fraction of the PDFs out there be pirated, now ALL the PDFs out there were pirated.

The 1st edition stuff, though, that was under license to a third party, wasn't it?

-k

Posted by: X-Kalibur Jan 8 2013, 12:43 AM

QUOTE (KarmaInferno @ Jan 7 2013, 03:17 PM)

A couple of folks were caught distributing WotC PDFs a few years ago so Hasbro panicked and pulled ALL their PDFs off the market.

Which was kinda stupid. Instead of having a fraction of the PDFs out there be pirated, now ALL the PDFs out there were pirated.

The 1st edition stuff, though, that was under license to a third party, wasn't it?

-k

It's funny because these idiots still haven't figured out how piracy works. People who pirate it weren't going to pay for it in the first place, so you've lost no revenue to them. Some people, like myself, will check out a pirated copy and if they like it, will then buy it. I don't really like doing "sight unseen" when it comes to books and I don't have an FLGS where I can peruse the tons of wares. In that case, you've actually gained more money, because it's a product someone normally wouldn't have bought.

Just like how they freaked out over cassette tapes in the 80's. Piracy was going to kill the music industry!... okay, not so much. In fact, it performed stronger than ever. Same with R and RW CDs and now with downloadable formats. Piracy isn't killing business. All the stupid shit people use to "protect" their product is killing their business.

Posted by: All4BigGuns Jan 8 2013, 01:52 AM

QUOTE (X-Kalibur @ Jan 7 2013, 06:43 PM)

It's funny because these idiots still haven't figured out how piracy works. People who pirate it weren't going to pay for it in the first place, so you've lost no revenue to them. Some people, like myself, will check out a pirated copy and if they like it, will then buy it. I don't really like doing "sight unseen" when it comes to books and I don't have an FLGS where I can peruse the tons of wares. In that case, you've actually gained more money, because it's a product someone normally wouldn't have bought.

Just like how they freaked out over cassette tapes in the 80's. Piracy was going to kill the music industry!... okay, not so much. In fact, it performed stronger than ever. Same with R and RW CDs and now with downloadable formats. Piracy isn't killing business. All the stupid shit people use to "protect" their product is killing their business.

This is pretty much the case. They're so greedy that they can't even see that they're slitting their own throats.

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