[gurps] 4th edition and ebooks?

[Bay Grabowski]

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Hey all! A few questions about 4th ed. GURPS, most of which I'm sure
have been done to death, but I haven't been on the listserve for too long.

First of all, I've rabidly resisted buying 4th ed. because of my fairly
paltry college student income and because my collection of 3rd ed.
rivals the library of congress... But, after *cough* digitally acquiring
clandestine copies of 4th edition, it looks to actually be substantially
better, or at least much better organized than 3rd. What with Amazon
offering the books at about $25, how does it hold up in play compared to
3rd?

For that matter, while I fully know that downloading GURPS books is
evil, satanic, and a deadly curse to gaming everywhere (but, I actually
am planning to buy the books, which I wouldn't have done otherwise!),
how heinous is keeping digital copies of the books when I own the real
ones? Morally, no problem to me, but legally does it follow the same
precedent as music, where it is legal? I'm not asking for legal advice,
just curious if anyone know off the top of their heads / if people do
the same thing. OCR-ed books are awesome what with instant finding of text.

Last of my rambling questions, while I know that the crunchy books are
no use in 4th ed (Noooo! But I love my horribly overpowered Grimoire
spells!), how hard is it to convert things over? More for things like
NPCs, where I don't care what the point cost is, just translating
abilities over.

Thanks all!

Bay
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