![]() He worked hard to get his book out there and doesn't want to give it away for free because he has bills to pay. The Zweihander guy has a reasonable argument to make from my mind. ![]() I'm happy to support them and spend more money than I should at Drive Thru/Kickstarter seeing as I've barely if ever used any of the stuff I buy. I'm not defending the sharing of stuff you can buy from Drive Thru or the game producers website. Please?įuzzy scans have been around for a long time with wonky pages and text that hurts your eyes to read and quality of scanning has gotten better but nothing competes with made from the digital ground up of stuff of course. Come on RPGs production companies, print your back catalogues on demand. They were getting stupid then POD came out and prices fell sharply. Look what Print on Demand prices did to Rules Cyclopedias. Good luck to him but I'll stick to the set I bought for £20 and maybe hope there's a decent scan out there some day to keep it alive. There's a set on ebay for £63 that's sat there forever, one of four sold by the same buyer. Marvel Saga (damn that needs a better scan) is another. At some point we'll not be around and the game will be gone. As it is it took the fans to scan their stuff with variable quality and put it out there for people to grab that keeps the game alive and even then mostly for us old farts that bought it first time round (85 I think) up to 3rd Edition in 1993 that keep the memory of the game alive. It's my most played, favourite game system. ![]() I'd love to pay for a clean well scanned professional looking PDF of the entire DC Heroes RPG line. It does mean that I don't really buy from ebay much these days and my purchases are either new (rare) or on impulse if it's cheap. With regards ebay sellers, why not inflate the price if someone is willing to pay it and you know when you sell it you will have to search high and low for a replacement and probably pay over the odds too? I don't blame anyone for wanting the best buck they can get but I won't pay for a book beyond a certain price point. It's the games that are unavailable except by ebay/forums with the inflated prices and are in legal limbo or just plain dead for whatever reason that attract me. When a PDF is cheap and easily accessible and I want to use it, I buy it. Sure there's DnD and pretty much everything on there from a broad range of games but I've bought the vast majority of what I want from Drivethru. Sadly, it doesn’t sound like anyone of us can backup the ENTIRE Trove at this moment.I think the main attraction is to get hold of games that are no longer in print and there are no digital editions of said game. I will make a more complete list soon, and feel free to drop suggestions. Note that on top of the stuff shubn posted above that he has backed up, we need also at least Starfinder, Exalted and Traveller. In the meantime each of us should make plans according to your tech knowledge and hardware capacity to backup whatever you can. At that point I will post suggestions on how to proceed. The point is we need to get organized in this, we won’t be able to play it by ear any more once the world is in full swing.įor now, I’ll keep refreshing the Trove 20 times a day until it’s back. And then a couple times a year we update our backlog backups for good measure. Thankfully, since I plan to track all this stuff from now on as Insomnia starts reporting on TTRPGs, I can save the new stuff manually every month, once we have secured the backlog. Paizo publishes new stuff every month, maybe half a dozen products including Starfinder, and Wizards publishes one or two new things every few months. ![]() But the world would be much poorer and less interactive without the extra choices. Every month new material is released that we will need down the road, even if we don’t use all of it it’s still needed to populate the overworld and give the players choices, even though they will only end up picking some of them. It’s worth expanding on what shubn said, that making a backup once a year is not good enough for us. The Trove has more data in terms of GB, but I found some stuff in that backup not present in The Trove (e.g. I haven't done a thorough file comparison check between that repository and The Trove, but it bears to say that a lot of their files can be found in both repositories. This is complementary to a torrent I posted some months ago on Discord about a full backup of a defunct website that, as far as I understand, was the predecessor to The Trove. The downloads got stuck a couple of times, but I simply closed the app via task manager, deleted the last half-downloaded file, and ran the downloader again, which checks for already downloaded items. I tested it and downloaded everything from the Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, and Cyberpunk folders. Found a useful utility to download contents from The Trove in bulk:
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