Go ye forth to DriveThru RPG and click on the Decipher link on the left-hand side. The file is available even as we speak....
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Go ye forth to DriveThru RPG and click on the Decipher link on the left-hand side. The file is available even as we speak....
This is one fine looking book. The planetary maps are fantastic. I'll read Paths of the Wise first, mostly because I've already read the preview for Worlds, but it looks promising.
I'm gonna wait till I get home tonight to buy mine - that way I can burn it to a CD and take it somewhere where they can print it out color and double-sided and bind it up.
I bought it, loved it, downloaded the kinkos program to get it professionally printed. Kinkos quoted me $.89 a page to print it....
um no.
No really. It would be cheaper for me to print it at home and use up my ink cartridges, buy more and go from there than pay about $150 or more to get it printed there. Was the person I was talking to for real?
Cause that would be about the dumbest expense outside of getting genuine vulcan ears via plastic surgery so my Spock custume would be just perfect for Halloween. cough cough ;-)
just curious cause it's a shame that this beautiful book is going to be pixels on my screen and not see hardcopy form.
Peace.
Don't know unless it's because you wanted it in color.
Hero Games 5th Ed (Revised) was going to cost me $40 +/- to get printed.
Front/back page, b&w, spiral bound w/ plastic covers.
Aaaahhh, I'll just go down to our state-subsidised RPG-organisation, turn on our full duplex printer, and make myself a copy, free as free can be.
Living in a "socialist" country isn't all breadcues, you know.
@#%&!
Site keeps saying my credit card's declined! Dammit, I KNOW it's good! I just talked to the company TODAY!
I will likelly buy it soon, printing it's going to be complicated, but I wil buy it :D
Well, they kept the majority of the inside references I put in the rough maps, with only one notable exception (so far). Unfortunately, it's been so long since I did the sketches, I can't remember if some things were coincidences or inside jokes. I should have made a list.
I do have to say that Boreth, my favorite of the maps I did, turned out pretty fantastically in the finished product. :)
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Originally Posted by Doug Burke
Did you actually have to buy a "copy" or did they get you as co-author one for free? :confused:
I received a comp copy because I worked on the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cut
Well, I looked through the book -- skimmed some bits, and concentrated on the main stuff. The new system/planet rules are well-done and should make the Traveler "hard scifi" types happy. I tried them out last night nad refurbed a system that was to show up in out game last night in under 30 minutes.
The planets listed are nicely spread through the Trek universe, with emphasis on the Alpha and Beta Quadrants (as should be.) The only bit the last season of Enterprise mucked with a bit is Andor, but it's nothing that couldn't be ignored. The maps are nicely done and simple. I liked the inclusion of the Dyson Sphere.
Overall, I don't feel ripped off. Wish they had printed it, but more and more I do stuff on the laptop, anyway.
As I promised, I'm here to eat a healthy serving of crow. :) Yes, they actually did live up to their promises and got the thing out. While I'm onside with Don on this one (at least according to his entry on the blog) that this was done as a last-minute clearinghouse operation before the license-expiry hammer came down, I won't argue with the results.
However, I still stand by my original opinion that Drive-Thru is to be complimented on making this available to the public. Decipher...? Well, let's just say I'm very, very glad that they were able to make the call to Fed Ex and get this (and hopefully the other works) over to Drive-Thru's place of operations. More competence - and customer service - they've shown there than in the last couple of years put together.
Well I finally got it tonight, and from the quick glance i had of it it looks excelent.. It just makes me wish it had been printed, it's going to kill my printer :)
Here's a thought:
If you get the book (which, if I remember correctly, is about 200 pages) printed thru Cafepress (for your own private use only, of course... no re-selling someone elses product!), the price would be around $13.00. It would be B&W interior, of course, but it would certainly be a nice, perfect-bound soft-cover copy of the book.
Okay, I'm getting severely confused. After having registered on Drive Thru's site, inserted the credit card information twice, paid for it twice, and experiencing a download twice, the book does not appear to be showing up anywhere on my system. Has anybody else experienced this problem - after completing the payment, the page simply switches back to Drive Thru's home page - or am I missing a step here???
Further to above: I have checked my order status, and it indicates that I have ordered - and been charged - three times for this work. If this is true, I have blown almost $100 Canadian for something I have not, to the best of my knowledge, received. If anyone can provide assistance on this situation, please advise ASAP.
I have also checked the site for anything vaguely resembling a support or help line, and there appears to be nothing available here either. Again, if anyone knows of a way to contact these people and a) confirm that the order has been recieved in some form or fashion, and b) find a way to cancel the two extra billings, I will be extremely grateful.
How very odd! I did it, paid through paypall (it's an american company and I don't have a credit card!) and it worked fine first time?!
Once I paid for it It simply presented me with a screen where I could hit 'download' and start downloading it? If you have registered through Drivethrough you should be able to see your registered status on there, how many times you've downloaded it etc? Hmm
I was sent an email confirming my order and in it had the link for downloading my purchase.
Otherwise,
1) Go to "My Account"
2) Log in
3) Under "My Orders", select "View all products I've purchased, with download links"
For more info/help:
FAQ - http://www.drivethrurpg.com/catalog/FAQ.php
Troubleshooting - http://www.drivethrurpg.com/catalog/Troubleshooting.php
Send them an email - http://www.drivethrurpg.com/catalog/contact_us.php
I have skimmed through their FAQ page
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/catalog/FAQ.php#quickstart
and found a paragraph about uninstalling your acrobat reader and DL the newest version from adobe. Than you gotta activate something, that enables your AR to read that secured eBooks they sell. Then you should start the DL of the RPG product. Could that have been the source of your problems?
edit: Then again it probably wasn't, as this procedure seems to be required for DRM version of eBooks not watermarked PDF files. My fault...
Regards, Nico
Everybody: thank you for the advice and assistance. Gandalf, I did attempt the series of links you indicated above, and it simply seems to lead me into a repeat of the same sign in/where's your card/okay you're done routine that I encountered last night. I am getting severely pissed off and will attempt to contact their help department tonight, when I've got a bit of time.
Christ, why couldn't they just do a regular FTP like everyone else?
Hmm but it was just a download button, even a regular HTTP link too.. Very odd.. I guess you just have to mail them and get them to reset it or something. Have you checked that the money has went through? have you actually paid for it?
I finally figured out what was wrong with my credit card, and I now have my copy, burned to CD with a couple other free netbooks I never printed out.
Now, to steal away from the ol' ball and chain and find somewhere that'll print it.
Question: What kind of paper do folks usually have this printed on? Photo paper? Glossy? How does it look on your standard copier/printer paper?
On my printer (HP 2410xi) with max resolution, best color, and plain paper, I printed the first 2 pages of the intro for Paths of the Wise. They came out incredible, but 1) it took absolutely forever to print the two pages and incidentally the b&w cartridge took a much bigger hit than the color cartridge.
If you're using Firefox or IE6, Acrobat should fire up and bring up the book at the end of the download (if you have it set up to do so.) Then you save it. If you can't find it, go to the accounts page and click on the WORLDS link 2/3rd of the way down that page or so. Should download. If you get asked for the card info, you hit the wrong link.Quote:
Originally Posted by D.S.McBride
Tried to send them an e-mail regarding the absolute lack of success in trying to get this damn thing downloaded, much less having the two unneccessary charges reversed; now it appears their e-mail isn't working.
I am becoming rapidly convinced that I have blown over $100 Canadian on something I may never recieve.
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/catalog/contact_us.php
So far, none of the other people I know have had problems. Are you on a Mac? (Still shouldn't matter, IE and Firefox both work fine on those platforms.)
Only other thing I can think of is some firewall or virus setting that prevents your browser from firing up Adobe on a DRM .pdf.
A DRM PDF wasn't an option to download for this product, it was strictly a watermarked one.. so it's nothing to do with DRM.. the watermarked versions are just regular PDF's
The book is sweet! I'd have liked it if some of the species profiles had been in separate sidebars rather than buried in the text (i.e. the Tzenkethi) ...
But even the typos aren't too glaringly obvious (except the 'Varta' base on the Founder homeworld).
Highly recommend .. And I hope they give you some decent customer service on this issue, D.S. I usually order stuff like this from RPGNow.Com, and I hafta say I like their setup much better.
Future books are going to be much better proofed than previous volumes. You have my personal guarantee.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scorpion
There were a few others where apparently the artist misread my writing on the rough maps. I'll make a list someday... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Scorpion
You got Trek, I got LOTR. :) Typos must die!Quote:
Originally Posted by PGoodman13
Damn skippy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ineti
Man the pdf's are pricey :(
Note to any future map labelers...
The word for a narrow strip of water between two land masses is "strait." Or plural "straits." There is no "gh."
Like the band, y'know, "Dire Straits?"
Makes my eyes hurt.
Probably my bad, but they did misread several labels I did.... ;)
I was having some of that crow with you.Quote:
Originally Posted by D.S.McBride
You mentioned that you finally got it downloaded. You haven't told us what you think of the product itself, however.
I recently purchased the Worlds PDF. It looks very nice & seems to have a lot of material. I plan to eventually have it printed & bound.
The one thing missing that I would have preferred would be 1 or 2 adventure hooks for each world. That would have been nice & very useful to someone like me who doesn't have time to write complete adventures for my campaign.