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KnightErrantJR
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Posted - 09 Jul 2014 :  02:24:04  Show Profile  Visit KnightErrantJR's Homepage Send KnightErrantJR a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
http://www.rpgnow.com/product/28729/Forgotten-Realms-Campaign-Setting-3e?it=1

I've been wondering for a while if WOTC would be putting out the actual campaign setting products for campaigns that appear to be supported in 5th edition, and apparently they are willing to do so.

Now I'm just anxiously awaiting the PDF of the Old Grey Boxed Set.

Wooly Rupert
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Ah, that explains it... I got an email this morn, from dndclassics.com, saying that the pdf had been updated. But when I followed their link, it didn't go anywhere.

I guess they posted it some time later in the day.

The new version of the pdf doesn't kill Adobe the way the old version did, either, which is nice.

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Sylrae
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Posted - 26 Jul 2014 :  09:17:29  Show Profile Send Sylrae a Private Message  Reply with Quote
"The Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting is fully updated and redesigned for the new edition of the D&D game. To make full use of this book, you also need the Player's Handbook, the Dungeon Master's Guide, and the Monster Manual."

I assume the description is just really old? they didn't update the 3e FRCS to the 5e rules, did they?

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quote:
Originally posted by Sylrae

"The Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting is fully updated and redesigned for the new edition of the D&D game. To make full use of this book, you also need the Player's Handbook, the Dungeon Master's Guide, and the Monster Manual."

I assume the description is just really old? they didn't update the 3e FRCS to the 5e rules, did they?



That's the old description. They're just making the book available again -- updating them to the latest ruleset would be a huge undertaking, with little return. It would tweak off a lot of people who wanted to replace their copies of (or read for the first time) the older material, and it would be pointless to update old material when there is, one would assume, a new 5E campaign setting book in the works.

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Sylrae
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Yeah, that's what I thought, but I mean, Menzoberranzan City of Intrigue is set up to handle multiple eras, so when I saw the text it made me wonder if they were planning on having stuff from other eras updated to 5e.

How's the quality of the PDF? You say it doesn't kill Adobe now. Smaller filesize? what's the DPI Like? Are the pictures all blurry or blocky like bad jpegs? Is the OCR any good? I mised the digital copy the first time around. I have two hard copies, but I wouldnt mind having something searchable with stuff I can copy paste into a word document if its relevant to planning my game, and whatnot.

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Ashe Ravenheart
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Posted - 27 Jul 2014 :  14:10:17  Show Profile Send Ashe Ravenheart a Private Message  Reply with Quote
The quality is vastly improved. All the text is OCR and is fully searchable and copies well. The pics are excellent, not blurry or blocky at all.

I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.

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Sylrae
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That's great to hear. I remember in the original run of D&D PDFs they had up on DTRPG, some of them looked terrible, and some of the maps were very difficult to read.

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Zireael
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Posted - 30 Sep 2014 :  11:05:13  Show Profile  Visit Zireael's Homepage Send Zireael a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert

quote:
Originally posted by Sylrae

"The Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting is fully updated and redesigned for the new edition of the D&D game. To make full use of this book, you also need the Player's Handbook, the Dungeon Master's Guide, and the Monster Manual."

I assume the description is just really old? they didn't update the 3e FRCS to the 5e rules, did they?



That's the old description. They're just making the book available again -- updating them to the latest ruleset would be a huge undertaking, with little return. It would tweak off a lot of people who wanted to replace their copies of (or read for the first time) the older material, and it would be pointless to update old material when there is, one would assume, a new 5E campaign setting book in the works.



LOL, could do with a better description, fooled me for a moment.

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