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Current D&D Products in PDF form
sckeener writes "The latest Wizards of the Coast D&D product Frostburn has also been release as a PDF. There are also older D&D products in PDF format at RPGNow. The current products are being tested at Drivethrurpg.com with the catch being Adobe DRM locks on the PDFs."
Or download them, DRM-free, from your favourite P2P network. Decisions, decisions...
Support the people who are publishing these materials, or don't and let the people who make them go out of business...
That said, I bought a couple modules offboth RPGNow and drivethrurpg.com two weeks ago. First off, the RPGNow PDFs are *NOT* Adobe DRM protected, and secondly, you can't read the drivethrurpg.com PDFs on a non-windows machine. In other words... Buy from RPGNow, and not drivethrurpg.com.
Anybody have an updated version of that Elcomsoft utility?
They are also insanely helpful for copying selections of text to relevant notes. I buy D&D books in hardcopy(and carry them with me.), and yet I keep a library of electronic copies for text searching(especially helpful when chasing down obscure Realmslore) and for copying to notes(helpful when using variants from books players don't have access to). Oh, and actually, in the heat of the game, the hardcopies are much better. Seriously. Now if Wizards would only ring-bind them...
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. -Anais Nin
Most of the things published on those two sites are *not* published by Hasbro/WoTC
I can attest to that... White Wolf's binding falls apart faster than a newly established Iraqi government. Too bad, because their books are some of the most interesting reads you'll find in the RPG industry, even if the system is a bit lackluster IMHO.
WOTC has a lot of old dnd material available for DL http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downl oads
As one who has purchased PDF's from Drivethrurpg.com and RPGNow.com I can honestly say that RPGNow is a much better alternative. Why? Well I have a linux box that I view my PDF on, I print it out at work, I also have a laptop for my game. DRM will not do. So i downloaded 2 programs which ripped it to another file and removed part of the process. I think took the file and then had another program 'clean' it up as far as fonts, searchability, and picture locations. Total time between installing software, reading manual, and doing the process: 3 hrs. Total time to repeat process: 30-45 min depending on the size. It still came out a lil blurry but otherwise very usable. Now I carry it around on my USB thumbdrive so it's handy and portable but did come out a bit larger in size. Go figure.
Wheel of Time: Book by Book and Sumview (summary review) Bigdady92 style: http://bigdady92.blogspot.com/
actually Drivethrurpg has a FAQ about how to transfer to PDAs and how to transfer to other pcs.
Adobe might have to get involved, but drivethrurpg gives the number to call to get this done.
"Only one thing, is impossible for god: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." Mark Twain