thanks Cx2, I'll have to look into that. I've read a lot of the 2nd ed books in word format, and played 3rd ed a long while ago.

i'll have a chat with Dolphin tomorrow about pdf convertion and see if I can find something that does a less wonky job than normal adoby seems to (you always get pages squished together for some odd reason).

depending upon readability, a couple of my friends have suggested I try running a game, of something, which i might do over skype, it will all depend upon if I can read the things and get my head around the rules system.

typical, ---- though I'm not the least bit surprised.

Back when i started playing D&D, I'd only read the 2nd ed handbooks which I'd got as word documents on a Cd rom.

Sinse the group I was with were playing 3rd Ed, I actually wrote to wizards asking about access, explaining that I suffered from eyeball deficiency syndrome so reading the usual printed books wasn't a good idea.

Their entire reply read "We currently have no plans to release electronic versions of our rule books.

Thank you for your enquiry"

Charming indeed!

Assuming you had the rules though, how seriously they get taken, and how often players get asked to actually do any rolling depends entirely upon the gm.

Our Mutans and Masterminds Gm is a bit of a stickler for rules, ---- especially in combat, and he specifically goes out of his way to stat uba powerful enemy's of doom who it's nearly impossible for us to take down, ---- in fact his version of super villainy seems all villains and no henchmen!

On the other hand, other Gm's I've played with only use rules as a guide line, and basically only roll dice when a situation arises who's outcome is in doubt and thus requires a role.

Just because in D&D you could role for everything up to and including what the players have for breakfast, doesn't mean you actually have to do it, ---- and personally I've actually had more fun in games with less rolling and more decision making.

You know, I am truely surprised that they don't make/release  the D&D books in an accessible format. I mean, with a visually impaired person, something like that would be a "perfect" game, right? "Watermarking" things or digitally signing isn't too hard, and everything that comes out starts out as some sort of text document, with a digital signature already (so they know who leaks something if it gets leaked pre-release).

Although, it is Wizards of the Coast, which like Games-Workshop is a major corperation, and why should they cater to the minority of the gaming world?

*edit*

Dark, for transferring things from PDF, have you tried just (in Adobe) going File>Save a copy as or File>convert to text (or whatever it's called)? That is what I usually do, and you don't have to have any special tools installed. When I do that, it'll save as a .txt in notepad/wordpad, adn all you *should* have to do is turn on word wrap. A little cleanup might be necessary, but for the most part, I find that it works. There is also Text Aloud (which costs like $30 here in the US) and what that does is it can open a PDF directly (among a couple of other file types), and you can use that to transfer it to a text document, or even turn it into a spoken audio document. I also use that here and there for things and it's not too bad(the voices that are supplied if you do want to turn things into audio aren't too borrible either).