Come on RPGs production companies, print your back catalogues on demand. They were getting stupid then POD came out and prices fell sharply. Look what Print on Demand prices did to Rules Cyclopedias. Good luck to him but I'll stick to the set I bought for £20 and maybe hope there's a decent scan out there some day to keep it alive. There's a set on ebay for £63 that's sat there forever, one of four sold by the same buyer. Marvel Saga (damn that needs a better scan) is another. At some point we'll not be around and the game will be gone. As it is it took the fans to scan their stuff with variable quality and put it out there for people to grab that keeps the game alive and even then mostly for us old farts that bought it first time round (85 I think) up to 3rd Edition in 1993 that keep the memory of the game alive. It's my most played, favourite game system.
#THE TROVE NET PDF#
I'd love to pay for a clean well scanned professional looking PDF of the entire DC Heroes RPG line. It does mean that I don't really buy from ebay much these days and my purchases are either new (rare) or on impulse if it's cheap. With regards ebay sellers, why not inflate the price if someone is willing to pay it and you know when you sell it you will have to search high and low for a replacement and probably pay over the odds too? I don't blame anyone for wanting the best buck they can get but I won't pay for a book beyond a certain price point. It's the games that are unavailable except by ebay/forums with the inflated prices and are in legal limbo or just plain dead for whatever reason that attract me.
When a PDF is cheap and easily accessible and I want to use it, I buy it. Sure there's DnD and pretty much everything on there from a broad range of games but I've bought the vast majority of what I want from Drivethru. Zenodo.I think the main attraction is to get hold of games that are no longer in print and there are no digital editions of said game. GLAM-Workbench/trove-api-intro (Version v0.1.0).
#THE TROVE NET HOW TO#
This notebook shows you how to get facet data from Trove.) Useful links ¶ Exploring facets ¶įacets aggregate collection data in interesting and useful ways, allowing us to build pictures of the collection. Trove's zones are important in constructing API requests and interpreting the results. We can then use that data in our own programs. However, instead of sending us back a web page, they deliver data in a form that computers can understand. In this notebook we're going to learn how to send a request for information to the Trove API. Tools, tips, examples ¶ Your first API request ¶ No prior knowledge of Python is expected or required - just follow along! The examples and approaches used could be easily translated into any another programming language.
In these notebooks we'll be using the programming language Python. APIs don't care what programming language you use as long as you structure requests in the way they expect. While you can just type an API request into the location box of your web browser, most of the time requests and responses will be handled by a computer script or program. But instead of going through a nicely-designed web interface, requests to the API are just URLs, and the results are just structured data. You make queries and you get back results. The Trove API works much like the Trove website. APIs provide data in a form that computers can understand and use (we call this machine-readable data). While humans can easily interpret information on a web page, computers need more help. Web APIs are generally used to deliver data. It's a set of predefined requests and responses that enables computer programs talk to each other. What's an API? ¶Īn API is an Application Programming Interface.
#THE TROVE NET FREE#
The notebooks in this section provide many examples of using the API to harvest data and analyse the contents of Trove.īefore you can use the API you need to obtain a key - it's free and quick. Trove provides access to much of it's data through an API (Application Programming Interface).
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