I would like to start off by saying I own the hard copies of all three within this series (Faiths & Avatars, Powers & Pantheons, and Demihuman Deities) and the content is excellent. You can read my review of F&A under that title where I give a number of kudos and reasons for purchasing. I purchased the PDF copy of F&A, and was very happy with my purchase because it was a proper PDF. It was properly bookmarked, the text was searchable and selectable, etc. Because I was happy with the F&A PDF, I moved forward with purchasing the PDFs for P&P and DD.
THIS PDF for Demihuman Deities is abolutely terrible!!! The scan quality is quite poor, it's not searchable, and most of the pages do not contain text...just the poor-quality scan image of the page. If you do stumble upon some actual text, it's completely garbled and unuseable....here's an example:
Novices of UrnenIan are known as Fanhlinga. Full prieni of He Who
Must Be are ham M Vwala of the Black Hound. In mending d e r of
rank, the tides wcd by Urogalanan priesw are Esrth Embracer, Soil Dig.
per, Clay Potter, Dlarun Smith, Grave Guardian, Crypt Sentinel, Vault
Manhal, Barrow Warden, and Black Hound. High-ranking priesw have
unique individual titles. Specialty priests are known M grimwardens.
The clergy of Urogalan includes hairfeet (E%)s,to uts (65%), and
tallfellows (10%). Urogalan'a clergy Is nearly evenly divided between
specialty priesta (54%) and clerics (46%) and between men (55%) and
women (45%).
Doma: Enrth la the glver and the receiver of life, providing shelter,
food, and wealth to those whox tces embrace it. The sacred 0011 la to be
revered M the mantle of Thm who Have Been and the shelter of Thox Who Will Be. The thanatopsls of He Who Muat h meals that death
to be embraced a i the nnmral end of life and in doing IO gives honor to
life.
I'm beyond dissatisfield, but I'm trying to maintain a civil tone here. The publisher needs to fix this and provide a proper PDF like they did for F&A. I highly recommend NOT purchasing this title until the publisher fixes it!
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