Interesting. I look forward to seeing what comes of this - some thrilling ideas, no doubt, but I'm keeping myself reserved so as not to be let down should those thrilling ideas be brought into less-than-thrilling existence.
I think the question you should be asking yourself is why are you buying a printed book when for the same price you can buy something that has everything a printed book has AND more AND is digital?
Because I run my game from books, have bought all the books, and it is a game intrinsically associated with books. I don't want electronic books for D&D.
So you are willing to have a "companion app" digitally but not the product digitally because to you D&D requires printed books.
It may be intrinsically linked to a book to you, but that is a choice you make and continue to make every time you insist on doing things your way. Good luck with that.
Because the absence of official PDFs have certainly meant that there are no pirate copies of the D&D books available.And you will have to wait 8-10 years for a PDF or something as piratable and flat, at least.
So you are willing to have a "companion app" digitally but not the product digitally because to you D&D requires printed books.
It may be intrinsically linked to a book to you, but that is a choice you make and continue to make every time you insist on doing things your way. Good luck with that.
Yes, if you want to see it, PM me and we can do a Goto Meeting or I can launch an FG campaign and you can log in as a player and see what it's like.
I want a companion app to the books, not a replacement to the books. Why on earth would I want to pay the same price again in order to get the same content, but electronic? I want something that will improve the book, not make it redundant. How hard is that to understand?
What's with the hostility? Some people - including me - prefer books. Is that a problem?
IP owned by Microsoft. Microsoft ended up owning the video game rights for most of the FASA Properties when they aquired FASA Interactive, and Harebrained is licencing Shadowrun from them.That's why I suggested the two companies I did. BeamDog's DnD games are advertised on the DnD website, and Harebrained Schemes is currently finishing their fourth video game using IP owned by Catalyst.