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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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 Posted - 03 Jul 2019 : 03:42:18
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Sharing this because I've seen people on eBay paying through the nose for the original hardcover...
The DM's Guild now has a softcover version of The Grand History of the Realms for just $20. (And right now, it and the pdf together are $22. No idea how long that deal will last).
So if you weren't lucky enough to get a copy (or two!) in hardcover when it came out, now you can go softcover on it.
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jamesewelch
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 03 Jul 2019 : 13:33:01
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Just be aware that it looks awful.
I purchased the POD and PDF. I also requested a refund (got refund yesterday).
The PDF is image scans (not text, so not searchable). There's white space margins around the scanned pages, so the POD and PDF pages aren't even full pages. The PDF does have bookmarks/TOC.
I really hope WotC cleans up this scan, so I can buy a few. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36804 Posts |
Posted - 04 Jul 2019 : 04:05:14
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Originally posted by jamesewelch
Just be aware that it looks awful.
I purchased the POD and PDF. I also requested a refund (got refund yesterday).
The PDF is image scans (not text, so not searchable). There's white space margins around the scanned pages, so the POD and PDF pages aren't even full pages. The PDF does have bookmarks/TOC.
I really hope WotC cleans up this scan, so I can buy a few.
That's really quite odd. They just updated the file a few weeks ago; the prior version was text, or at least OCR'ed, so it was searchable. I wonder why they would replace a searchable version with a larger file that wasn't searchable.
I'm glad you mentioned that. I just dug up one of the older copies, so I could have the searchable one handy. I'd replaced it with the newest version of the file, not knowing it wasn't searchable. |
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
6666 Posts |
Posted - 04 Jul 2019 : 23:21:51
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Just have your own.
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"Because only we, contrary to the barbarians, never count the enemy in battle." -- Aeschylus |
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Derulbaskul
Senior Scribe
Singapore
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Posted - 05 Jul 2019 : 00:37:34
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert That's really quite odd. They just updated the file a few weeks ago; the prior version was text, or at least OCR'ed, so it was searchable. I wonder why they would replace a searchable version with a larger file that wasn't searchable.
I'm glad you mentioned that. I just dug up one of the older copies, so I could have the searchable one handy. I'd replaced it with the newest version of the file, not knowing it wasn't searchable.
It wouldn't be the first time.
I got The Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde when it was first released on the DM's Guild. The file was so large and such poor quality that I went and downloaded a pirated version to take its place.
Yep, amateur pirates had better quality control.... |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36804 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jul 2019 : 02:48:56
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Originally posted by Derulbaskul
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert That's really quite odd. They just updated the file a few weeks ago; the prior version was text, or at least OCR'ed, so it was searchable. I wonder why they would replace a searchable version with a larger file that wasn't searchable.
I'm glad you mentioned that. I just dug up one of the older copies, so I could have the searchable one handy. I'd replaced it with the newest version of the file, not knowing it wasn't searchable.
It wouldn't be the first time.
I got The Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde when it was first released on the DM's Guild. The file was so large and such poor quality that I went and downloaded a pirated version to take its place.
Yep, amateur pirates had better quality control....
Yeah, but this is going the other way: they replaced the better copy with the worse one.
I've gotten a lot of TSR/WotC pdfs, and honestly, I've had very few complaints about them. |
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Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 12 Sep 2019 : 01:36:35
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I think the Print on Demand looks pretty decent.
https://imgur.com/a/f7iUosh |
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Arivia
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 14 Jan 2020 : 23:08:09
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| What I really wish they'd do is offer reprints of the various poster maps. My 3e ones are pretty much worn to tatters, sadly, and I don't know a great way to replace them. |
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jamesewelch
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 15 Jan 2020 : 00:22:41
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RealmProtector
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 27 Apr 2020 : 01:01:10
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| Hey Guys, Have any of you bought the Shining South POD? Is it any good as in quality of printing and paper? Or should I just get the original on eBay?? Any help would be appreciated. |
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Fayne
Acolyte
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Posted - 31 Oct 2021 : 01:40:30
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| Did they ever improve the PDF file on this? Restore it to the searchable text, rather than the image scans? How is the quality of the softcover POD? Thanks. |
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Grand History of the Realms - softcover
