QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Jul 16 2012, 04:54 PM)
Heh, i know at least one person that did that to some fan PDFs for SWD6. Me, i just go with a tablet
Still, a BW laser printer able to print on both sides is mighty tempting.
The "Duplex" option was my final selling point on my current printer.
QUOTE (last_of_the_great_mikeys @ Jul 16 2012, 05:57 PM)
I wonder if there will be a batch of archtypes, contacts and such in it. It would help set the feel.
You'll see a lot of old friends, let me put it that way.
QUOTE (Aaron @ Jul 16 2012, 07:01 PM)
I figure the binder thing is "old school" because the Perfect Bind back in the day was anything but perfect. I still have to handle my copy of SR2 gingerly (and don't get me started about the BattleTech books I had to switch to binders).
To be fair, it wasn't just FASA. My copy of Paranoia is in a binder for that very reason, along with a couple of Torg books.
Actually, I was thinking more along the ideas of one guy buying a book, and photocopying it a few times for the rest of the group, putting it in the binder much like I did (for the record, I have a reason for printing out my book, and, no, I'm not going to get into it.). There's also the illegal scanned PDFs of OOP books later on that were going around the underground Napster-Lookalikes. Of course, with CGL now making legit (and better quality) PDFs available at reasonable prices, you should use those. (That's always been my personal morals on the situation, I'm not, nor never shall be, a corporate shill. No, not even for an RPG company, they can find someone else to do that!).
Hell, I remember seeing some old RPG books (Not any Shadowrun ones, however) that were in TEXT FORMAT available for download from BBSes back in the early '90s. Slam those through a Dot Matrix Printer and there you go, your book for *Insert Huge RPG Here* and you didn't have to pay The Man. Handy if you're in a place where the FLGS is anything but "F", or there's Gamer Drama going on.