Quote from: RPGPundit;558076What I'm waiting for are the shit-fits that will emerge from pretty much the exact OPPOSITE of what you're talking about: some fucking idiot who'll be complaining that they CORRECTED a typo in the original, claiming that "WoTC is sucking the charm/life/memory of gygax/whatever out of the original" by daring to actually not moronically slavishly copy everything word for word including even what was glaringly obvious as an unintentional mistake.

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HA!  You're totally spot-on there.

Seriously, 1e AD&D has been my game of choice since the '80s, but Christ-a'mighty it's almost embarrassing to admit that these days.

Hm, I wonder if they'll fix the 5th level cleric missing title typo in the Player's Handbook

I couldn't care less about fixing minor typos.  The biggest draw to me is the prose and artwork.  As long as that is there, I'll be getting a set.

Visionaries for the win. I had those toys, and remember the cartoon.

Quote from: Sacrosanct;558160I couldn't care less about fixing minor typos.  The biggest draw to me is the prose and artwork.  As long as that is there, I'll be getting a set.

Well, yeah...

Even though I have bought more than 10 copies (and given away 9) of the 1e DMG in the past year, the new books look pretty good overall.  I might have to pick the DMG up!

As to retyping, I suspect that they wanted to have the books in digital format, rather than shooting new stats.  Chris Perkins, not the WOTC one, basically rewrote everything in his amazing Adnd3e (no link provided).

For some reason, those old books don't OCR very well, believe me, there are a few editions of the DMG pdf floating around (including the one I purchased) and I have tried every method I can (there could be some I haven't tried too) but they don't OCR at all.  Not sure why, though.

It sounds like WOTC had a hellofatime doing these books, which makes it doubtful there will be a flood of others like them.

Asimnov was man before his time.  Over and out.  Marleycat has some games to run.  Seriously you guys are hung up about this? Don't be pissed just thank the Gods they're trying for real.

Any bets on WotC being hammered for unlicensed reproduction of artwork, a'la the Dragon Compendium CDs?

Quote from: kythri;559081Any bets on WotC being hammered for unlicensed reproduction of artwork, a'la the Dragon Compendium CDs?

Nope.  Won't happen.  The art was done on-spec and paid for a long, long, long time ago.  The only people who "hammered" TSR on the Dragon Magazine Archive were Kenzer & Co., because the very latest issues of the magazine that were reproduced contained Knights of the Dinner Table strips.

The art looks great!

I have to point out that none of the alleged concerns had any basis in fact, and this is undoubtedly the most beautiful printing of a D&D edition in the game's history.

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Quote from: RPGPundit;560026The art looks great!

I have to point out that none of the alleged concerns had any basis in fact, and this is undoubtedly the most beautiful printing of a D&D edition in the game's history.

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Wow. That's quite the endorsement.

Nice, good to hear, Pundit.

Yeah, I've been stupidly enchanted by my new books for days now.  I was ridiculously pleased at getting to use the Monster Manual for a few seconds during my Albion game last night.

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Quote from: RPGPundit;560472Yeah, I've been stupidly enchanted by my new books for days now.  I was ridiculously pleased at getting to use the Monster Manual for a few seconds during my Albion game last night.

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I was all good until you said "seconds".

So Pundit, how does it feel to finally own a set of 1e books?