But the Karma Bear is a bitch when it catches up with you. Not that I'd be waiting for him, I'm woefully out of shape and stay indoors as much as I can. I hope the asshole that brought The Trove down avoids darkened back alleys. Especially games that are out of print, where a hard copy is next to impossible to find at all, and the few that are would necessitate the sale of several organs. It gave me a chance to look into them and try them out before committing to buying a hard copy. There are countless games I had never heard of, active and defunct, that I'd never seen in game shops before, but I saw on The Trove and looked interesting. So I feel no shame in downloading a copy of something that I've already paid for the hard copy.Īdditionally, The Trove introduced me to a whole new world of RPGs. I still (recklessly) buy every new book when it comes out, partly to keep up on all the new content and partly because I collect books.
Instead of carrying every core book, supplement, module, and flavor book I had just to keep up with all the new stuff that was being put out, I could instead have everything on a laptop with (even more appreciated) searchable PDFs so I didn't have to spend a half an hour of game-time searching for an answer when a player asked an obscure rule question. Eventually, a kind player saw me continuously struggle with my load every week and pointed me to The Trove as an alternative to lugging around a heavy bag.
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pdf when you buy the physical book you have to pay again for the online version through their licensed service, and call me paranoid but I don't want to buy a license, I want to own the product.Įxactly! I went out, years ago, and bought a suitcase/backpack specifically for all my D&D books as a DM. It wouldn't hurt them a bit, but they won't just give you a. The publishers and their licensees have already squeezed the blood from this stone. I have even purchased the stupid dice sets that come with stupid handouts from Volo and the Lady Silverhand. My spouse and I are considering buying the chardalyn dragon for their next campaign. I still have a pack of blind boxes to open. It is faster and more convenient for me to reference my stack of digital files than it is to build up a huge pile of books, some of which are expensive enough that I cannot risk the cats tearing them up or getting sick on them, or my clumsy self dropping food and drink on them.
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I've also got a separate shelf full of other RPGs of all sorts of publications, systems, etc. I have (baring some box sets, splat books, and adventure modules) something like 70% of the official materials from D&D, AD&D, and then D&D 3.x and forward. I'm sitting here staring at my shelf of books. Nobody's harming his bottom line: I bet that just about as many people weren't buying his trash before the Trove went down, as aren't buying it now. So, the reality doesn't mesh with Daniel D. I've grabbed what I could from the Trove's out-of-print volumes over the years, but it was nice having that always-accessible source there and at the ready.
Still more honesty: if any of you are anything like me, the PDFs you access on the Trove that you *don't* own are out-of-print books from older editions of the RPGs you love. For my part – and, please, stop me if I don't speak for anyone out there – when I play games with my gaming group, especially since the pandemic started, it's a *hell* of a lot easier to have PDF copies of the books I already own, because it saves me having to transcribe information for my players. More honesty: most of the people who use the Trove have already bought the books they're using from the site – if they're like me, that is. Which have gotten more and more expensive over the last 20 years, thanks in large part to Wizards of the Co$t. everyone who's here interested in seeing the Trove back up and running is a gamer, interested in PDFs of RPG books. All right, as long as we're being honest.
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