Now, for most of my group though, digital content would be ideal.
Give me an searchable, tab-able SRD over a. this is why most of my group sticks to online SRDs for our references, these are formatted to have all the information on any given subject on screen at once without much hassle.
#Dmg 5e pdg full
even using shortcuts and my mouse, the screen was too small to have a full page shown and the dual column formatting often meant i needed to scroll up/down to get the full gist of a piece of information. To use an example, the 5th ed playtest documents were horrible for me to look and find information within at times on my laptop. pdfs, mainly because most of them are made to be read like a book rather then used on a computer. Now, i'm going to preface this with the comment that I'm not the biggest fan of. One guy has a mix of printouts and books. One guy and the FLGS's owner use tablets. My personal group is rather varied in how we use digital tools.Īt our table, me and one other player use laptops. Intrusive DRM (especially on content available in other forms) is one of the make-or-break issues for me, and a subscription model will likely turn me away, with how infrequently it appears that they will be releasing supplemental material, besides pregen adventures and modules, which are of next to no interest to me. If there's a "Must check in every 24 hours" or "May only be used while connected to the internet" requirement, or anything like that, then count me out. I think Morningstar will probably have some digital distribution to it, but I'm waiting to see a pricing model, and, more importantly what type of DRM, if any, it will entail. Possibly even worse, since a lot of people prefer PDFs, to the point that they may end up pirating not due to cost but convenience. However, I don't see that as a reason not to sell PDFs, since all it takes is one person with a scanner, and you've got the same issue.
#Dmg 5e pdg pdf
One reason why I fear they won't try for PDF distribution is because apparently, there were piracy issues with 4e.