![]() ![]() 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. 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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