.org to get access to the System Reference Document. This covers all the publicly licensed content from Dungeons and Dragons, which includes the basic rules and character classes. This is plenty to play a fully functional game of Dungeons and Dragons. There is a lot of content on the web that expands upon this, though Wizards of the Coast keeps a lot of material off the web and not in accessible formats.
(On a side note, scanning and converting game books is a big pita, because they are formatted in a quite complex fashion, with variable columns, tables and side bars. As a last resort, it is possible to extract the text this way, but generally if the publisher releases the book electronically, it will be easier to use.) There is a wonderful on-line retailer called the Indie Press Revolution. IPR sells games that are independently produced, which include a lot of the best new games coming out. Aside from the fact that a lot of these are fantastic games, many of them are available for PDF download. I've dealt with them and they are good. They have a podcast that you can find from the IPR main page. There is a second really good gaming podcast done by Paul Tevis at http://www.havegameswilltravel.net Http://www.rpg.net is a supersite featuring tons of reviews and, which is cool for us a page devoted to freely downloadable games that are usually in PDF or DOC format. There are other resources, but I'm blanking on them right now. It might be worth noting that I am interested in putting together some on-line based role-playing games that I would run through Skype or maybe in a chat room at FTP or Audio Tips as Phil Vlasak does with his long-standing D&D campaign. I haven't decided when I will begin this, or what I'd be interested in running, but I find myself short of face-to-face gaming experiences, so I'm going to branch out into the virtual world. HTH Christopher Bartlett _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
