[RPG]: 101 Collection, reviewed by Kester Pelagius (2/3)

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10388.phtml

C. Demetrius Morgan's Summary:

A collection of hundreds of treasure items? This must be a Monty Hall DMs Midsummer Night’s Wet Dream come true! Or is it? Read the review and find out.

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Post originally by unterhund at 2004-06-11 07:13:37
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Good review. I do have one question.

Clearly the b/w version of each PDF is meant for printing. But is the color version optimized for screen viewing? You know, like Cryptosnark Games' <i>Thaumatech: Modern Magic Items</i>.

Post originally by flyingmice at 2004-06-11 09:58:11
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Hi Kester:

Just wanted to say that back when I was running AD&D, I used to love these things. I bought the TSR Treasure book to help me reduce my prep time, and it was well worth it until I began changing my campaign world from generic AD&D to something a bit more personalized. This type of book can be very worthwhile to a harried DM. :P

-mice

Post originally by Kester Pelagius at 2004-06-11 11:06:59
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Greetings Flyingmice,

>>Just wanted to say that back when I was running AD&D, I used to love these things. I bought the TSR Treasure book to help me reduce my prep time, and it was well worth it until I began changing my campaign world from generic AD&D to something a bit more personalized. This type of book can be very worthwhile to a harried DM.<<

Indeed they can. And I would be dishonest if I didn't mention that, yes, I had a three ring binder FULL of Xeroxes of articles from the Dragon magazines I bought that I found useful. Ronin Arts products are well put together, don't get me wrong, but the more of these treasure troves I see the more I realize these are something that I would rather see in a 'zine

In fact, just going by the material I have seen from Ronin Arts myriad of fine supplments, I have to say I am surprised they haven't decided to put out a PDF 'zine.

Would be nice to see.

Post originally by Kester Pelagius at 2004-06-11 11:12:44
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>>Good review. I do have one question.

Clearly the b/w version of each PDF is meant for printing. But is the color version optimized for screen viewing? You know, like Cryptosnark Games' Thaumatech: Modern Magic Items.<<

*rooting through directories*

Not sure. It says "Fast Web View: No" and, in comparisson to the 100 Collection 2 (review soon to be forthcoming)I'd have to guess not as that provides, if memory serves, three PDFs of each product.

Mr. Reed? Paging Mr. Reed to 20 Questions Desk!

Post originally by Philip Reed at 2004-06-11 13:01:04
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The color version is in landscape orientation and when you use "Fit to Window" in Acrobat you can see entire pages at once and easily read them.

And thanks for the review!!!

Oh yeah. Check the fine print in Thaumatech and I think you'll find where the idea for the product's design came from.