Traveller Core Rule page count

[Gruffty the Hiver]

Mmmmm. Paper. I love paper. Smooth, crisp, white, clean, pure paper.

ISO 216.

 

[Deniable]

So they are still wrong. But it was just a throw-away joke.

So was mine, in an "everybody does it wrong" kind of way.

 

[EDG]

So they are still wrong. But it was just a throw-away joke.

So was mine, in an "everybody does it wrong" kind of way.

Except of course us Brits, who do it right

 

[AKAramis]

Most of my American RPG books appear to be about 280 x 220 mm. (~11x8.5 in.)

PDF is easy to deal with for the letter / A4 switch. If you want a real nightmare, try it on a Word document with a lot of fiddly layout. Yuck.

You get MSWord layout messed up just going between two different OS versions with the same font files.... let alone changing paper size.

Just print to PDF (PDF995 works easily and is cheap; ghostscript is cheaper and not quite so easy), and work with the PDF for resizing...

 

[Deniable]

PDF Creator on sourceforge is free and does a good job. The point is once you have a PDF, paper size is a non-issue.

 

[EDG]

CutePDF is a very good PDF writer too. Free and easy to use, it just acts like another printer.

 

[Tathlum]

So they are still wrong. But it was just a throw-away joke.

So was mine, in an "everybody does it wrong" kind of way.

Now I get you.
Sorry heads not on right, have the 'flu.

 

[GamerDude]

While the paper discussion was um.... interesting, I notice no one addressed the lack of chapter numbering and the weird (IMO) restarting the numbering for each chapter.

Since the page references are still "page XX", numbering the pages from 1-147 wouldn't hurt anything except being able to quickly say "The combat section went from 11 to 12 pages.

But, that's just me.

 

[Mongoose Gar]

The weird page numbering comes from all the chapters being separate word docs on my laptop. I'll merge everything into one doc next time before sending it to be pdfed.

 

[dmccoy1693]

To go back to the original discussion of this thread, the American dollar cost of the Traveller book did go up from $33-$34 to $40. But I suspect that has more to do with the dollar depreciation then it does with anything else. Great time to be an American, what can I say.

 

[GamerDude]

The weird page numbering comes from all the chapters being separate word docs on my laptop. I'll merge everything into one doc next time before sending it to be pdfed.

Thanks Gar! That would be a great help (especially for me because I as I go through the document I fill the 'page XX' with the page numbers to help me out.)

 

[Emryys]

To go back to the original discussion of this thread, the American dollar cost of the Traveller book did go up from $33-$34 to $40. But I suspect that has more to do with the dollar depreciation then it does with anything else. Great time to be an American, what can I say.

I've been on a RPG spending fury with the CDN$ par or above the Greenback... great time to be Canadian...Eh!

 

[dmccoy1693]

I've been on a RPG spending fury with the CDN$ par or above the Greenback... great time to be Canadian...Eh!

It must be. But its still not bad being an American right now as long as you are willing to do a touch more hunting and a bit more planning. i.e. I was planning on picking up the Traveller PDF when it came out, but then I saw on Amazon, they haven't found out yet that there's a price increase yet. So I pre-ordered a book for US$20.

Yes, I'm one of those weird people that prefer PDFs. (Mostly because I generally take it to Staples or Kinkos and get it printed out for the difference in cost. Then I have a searchable copy and a physical copy.)

 

[TrippyHippy]

I prefer pdf. files for supplements.

I always like to get the core stuff in a hardback, hardcopy format, and then just have the rest on a desktop ready to be printed as they are needed (only normally a handful of pages at a time, based upon what I actually want in a particular game session).

For Traveller, I think I'll get the Corebook and The Spinward Marches (3rdImp) campaign, and everything else then will be downloaded.