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Assume some kind of hard-core DRM and no ability to print them off.
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Flambeaux wrote:Assume some kind of hard-core DRM and no ability to print them off.
Is that what they do with the current 4E books?
I imagine it would all be treated the same.
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Sadly, I think you guys are right. I was hoping for print on demand.
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Random wrote:
Flambeaux wrote:Assume some kind of hard-core DRM and no ability to print them off.
Is that what they do with the current 4E books?
I imagine it would all be treated the same.
They don't offer any electronic versions of the current 4e books (except for the content that makes it into the Character Builder and Encounter Builder programs). For Dragon and Dungeon magazines, the articles are .pdfs with no DRM or printing restrictions.
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Latest covers are now up on Wizard's site with product info. 'Advanced' has been added again.

They still have the page counts in the MM and PHB reversed. :D

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SimperingToad wrote:Latest covers are now up on Wizard's site with product info. 'Advanced' has been added again.
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Thank goodness. I was worried the "advanced" moniker might get reassigned to something else!
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Those covers are absolutely gorgeous!
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Got Gygax, Advanced, and AD&D -- sheesh, I gotta get these things!
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T. Foster wrote: Those covers are absolutely gorgeous!
I am actually not loving them, but they are passable.
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Wow... these covers are awesome....
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Odhanan wrote:Wow... these covers are awesome....
I had completely the opposite reaction. :lol:

EDIT: Or I'm missing the Sarcasm tags in your post. 8)
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Flambeaux wrote:
Odhanan wrote:Wow... these covers are awesome....
I had completely the opposite reaction. :lol:

EDIT: Or I'm missing the Sarcasm tags in your post. 8)
You and me both. While I admit that they don't totally suck, "awesome" is hardly the descriptor I'd use.

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Design wise, it's much too busy. The central focus should be the title and such plus the illus. The border is waaaaaay overdone and detracts form the main point.
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Considering what those covers could have looked like, I can live with this.
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