AD&D 1e on RPGNow

alcyone · Post by **alcyone** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:05 pm

You can buy the PDF of the AD&D 1e PHB (the reprint) on dndclassics.com now. Searchable and bookmarked.

Lurker · Post by **Lurker** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:50 pm

Aergraith wrote:You can buy the PDF of the AD&D 1e PHB (the reprint) on dndclassics.com now. Searchable and bookmarked.

Cooooooollllll! Thanks for the heads up

alcyone · Post by **alcyone** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 1:20 am

And today the Monster Manual is up.

If you purchased anything from WoTC on DriveThru/RPGNow/DndClassics the first time they put stuff up way back when before they took it down, visit again, because some of it has come back and your download link should still work.

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 2:34 am

The only reason I am buying them now is because they are the new cleaned up printing PDF's.

Arduin · Post by **Arduin** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 2:27 pm

Aergraith wrote:You can buy the PDF of the AD&D 1e PHB (the reprint) on dndclassics.com now. Searchable and bookmarked.

'bout time! I looked at it. It is a scan. I made far superior PDF's of the 3 books (including embedded hyperlinks) in the late 90's. Why they couldn't do the same with technology 2 decades in advance of that is beyond weird.

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:55 pm

Arduin wrote: I looked at it. It is a scan. Why they couldn't do the same with technology 2 decades in advance of that is beyond weird.

Did you buy their old PDF? Before they pulled them down? If so, I think that is the one you got, because the PDF I am looking at, for the PHB, is nice and clean looking. Very easy to read, etc... IE just like the new printings they did a couple of years ago, which is where this PDF came from. Now, granted, the artwork was transferred via scanning and touching them up, but that was pointed out when the print versions were released. The text looks very clean and easy to read to me.

alcyone · Post by **alcyone** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:04 am

It was actually typeset again. On some pages you can see how the formatting is slightly different. The art was mostly scanned unless the originals were available. There were some articles on the process but they seemed to have fallen off the internet.

Arduin · Post by **Arduin** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 1:58 pm

Treebore wrote: Did you buy their old PDF? Before they pulled them down?

No, looking at the new one. They are lower quality than the PHB PDF I made in '98. My text & pics are better. PLUS, original cover art. Also, I put in hyperlinks for table of contents, table lists, spell lists, etc. 20th century tech tools

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 4:43 pm

Yeah, very, very few make use of todays PDF tech, thats for sure. The best I have ever seen done was very recently for a Savage Worlds PDF I bought.

Arduin · Post by **Arduin** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 5:03 pm

Treebore wrote:Yeah, very, very few make use of todays PDF tech, thats for sure. The best I have ever seen done was very recently for a Savage Worlds PDF I bought.

At least good to hear that you purchased one that took advantage of the tech. There's hope!

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 5:06 pm

Yeah, this is the PDF...

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/151 ... mented-PDF

Arduin · Post by **Arduin** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 5:07 pm

Treebore wrote:Yeah, this is the PDF...

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/151 ... mented-PDF

Wow! Now THAT is doing it right.

tylermo · Post by **tylermo** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 6:56 pm

Pinnacle Entertainment generally does it right.

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:20 pm

tylermo wrote:Pinnacle Entertainment generally does it right.

Well, they didn't do this PDF, the author did. Under license from Pinnacle.

alcyone · Post by **alcyone** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 4:55 am

And now the DMG is up.

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 6:31 am

Aergraith wrote:And now the DMG is up.

Noticed that a little while ago when I was searching for a product.

Troll Lord Games

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