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Announced today in the most recent Legends & Lore column, PDFs are back!

Today is a great day for D&D!

The Shelf of Infinite Books

Back at Gen Con last year, we announced that we were once again going to make certain titles of classic D&D material available for purchase as PDF files. I'm happy to announce that our friends over at DrivethruRPG.com are offering the first of many waves of classic content.

Initially, you'll see classics such as the B-series of modules, the entirety of the first mega-campaign, spanning the G, D, and Q series of adventures, Greyhawk sourcebooks, and more showing up on DrivethruRPG's virtual shelves. Personally, I'm running a D&D Next playtest of Steading of the Hill Giant Chieftain every Friday afternoon at the office from a PDF loaded on to my iPad.

When we began the D&D Next process, we were committed to looking at D&D beyond the rules for the tabletop game. We realize that some people like running classic adventures or playing earlier editions. We hope D&D Next meets your needs, but if you want to stick with the D&D you already know and love, then DrivethruRPG.com's ever-expanding library will have everything that you'll need.

I'll be picking up a copy of the Adventurer's Vault to support the release of the 4E library in digital form. Indeed, while I'll not be buying into Next, if WotC were to release the rest of the 4E library in PDF format I'd pretty much re-buy my entire 4E library in digital form.

My one question is are people who brought pdf's of earlier editions of DnD before wizards pulled them goingh to be able to redownload  them or am I going to have to pay again for stuff lost through taking drive rpg policy of 5 downloads at face value when my hard drive failed?

and to be honest are wizards making a guarantee that such a thing won't happen again? 

Jan 22, 2013 -- 9:18AM, stuartrose wrote:

My one question is are people who brought pdf's of earlier editions of DnD before wizards pulled them goingh to be able to redownload  them or am I going to have to pay again for stuff lost through taking drive rpg policy of 5 downloads at face value when my hard drive failed?

and to be honest are wizards making a guarantee that such a thing won't happen again? 

OK now I've managed to get onto drivethrurpg I'veanswered my own question as I managed to download b2, without paying again.

I take back what i said and all kudos to Wizards for that. so my plans to reimage  some old adventures for 4th next i.e. x11 can go ahead with having to use bittorrent..bonus!!

Jan 22, 2013 -- 9:24AM, thespaceinvader wrote:

Plague, I think your thread title is somewhat misleading.  'Certain titles of classic D&D' != "All Editions".

When i checked it this morning, there was PDF of every editions. So unless they pulled out all their 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions PDFs in between, no the thread title is not misleading.