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<blockquote data-quote="mxyzplk" data-source="post: 6420549" data-attributes="member: 16450"><p>Hate to hear another grand e-tools plan has disintegrated.</p><p></p><p>Just as a point of interest, I play a lot of Pathfinder. It's got like a quarter ton of books for it now. But:</p><p></p><p>1. Since I subscribe, I get PDFs with everything</p><p>2. All the rules are in the online PRD</p><p>3. The Hero Lab character generation for Pathfinder is very good, and while it's expensive to buy all the content for it, you can.</p><p></p><p>Between those three things, GMing doesn't make me tear out my hair. I can do a quick rules lookup at the table off my laptop or iPad for some weird feat or spell someone has on the PRD. While game-prepping I don't have to spread out literally 100 books, I have the couple main ones I'm using and then go look in the relevant PDF for "that ship captain from the NPC Codex, I'll use him in this adventure." And when prepping a level 14 NPC it's not a hour-long exercise in math and pain, even if I'm not using one of the stock NPCs I can level one up and add the right number of feats and make sure all the numbers are right very quickly.</p><p></p><p>The electronic support in the form of PRD, PDFs, and Hero Lab are the difference between me not GMing at all, or GMing and saying "if it's not in this prebought adventure here then screw it," and me being able to run a full custom campaign on top of job and family. </p><p></p><p>I'm not saying "WotC bad Paizo good;" Paizo's been trying to have their web store guy write a VTT for like three years now and they launched two good iPhone apps and then foundered on any followthrough - they are in somewhat the same boat. But by being less paranoid about their content and by doing at least some smart licensing (now even Obsidian etc.) they make the game a lot more accessible. It could be considered a "nice to have" - if a company considers my money just "nice to have."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mxyzplk, post: 6420549, member: 16450"] Hate to hear another grand e-tools plan has disintegrated. Just as a point of interest, I play a lot of Pathfinder. It's got like a quarter ton of books for it now. But: 1. Since I subscribe, I get PDFs with everything 2. All the rules are in the online PRD 3. The Hero Lab character generation for Pathfinder is very good, and while it's expensive to buy all the content for it, you can. Between those three things, GMing doesn't make me tear out my hair. I can do a quick rules lookup at the table off my laptop or iPad for some weird feat or spell someone has on the PRD. While game-prepping I don't have to spread out literally 100 books, I have the couple main ones I'm using and then go look in the relevant PDF for "that ship captain from the NPC Codex, I'll use him in this adventure." And when prepping a level 14 NPC it's not a hour-long exercise in math and pain, even if I'm not using one of the stock NPCs I can level one up and add the right number of feats and make sure all the numbers are right very quickly. The electronic support in the form of PRD, PDFs, and Hero Lab are the difference between me not GMing at all, or GMing and saying "if it's not in this prebought adventure here then screw it," and me being able to run a full custom campaign on top of job and family. I'm not saying "WotC bad Paizo good;" Paizo's been trying to have their web store guy write a VTT for like three years now and they launched two good iPhone apps and then foundered on any followthrough - they are in somewhat the same boat. But by being less paranoid about their content and by doing at least some smart licensing (now even Obsidian etc.) they make the game a lot more accessible. It could be considered a "nice to have" - if a company considers my money just "nice to have." [/QUOTE]
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