D&D 5E 5E - Would you buy e-Books?

[Blackwarder]

All ebooks all the way for me!

Warder

 

[Blackwarder]

Back when WOTC offered PDFs, I was buying both. I'm lucky to be able to afford it, and they both have their advantages. Reading standard PDFs on a iPad is a drag, though -- lots of pinching and zooming, flicking around toe view a portion of the page large enough to read, etc. So a version of the document tailored for that view would be nice.

You should get the new iPad, I'm reading PF PDFs on it with no zooming.

Warder

 

[Lhorgrim]

I wouldn't use the ebook/pdf versions of the rules if they were available because I don't have the infrastructure in place to benefit from them.

I own a laptop computer and my wife has a desktop. Neither are particularly new. I own an iPhone 3GS, but I don't have an iPad or tablet, and I don't have the disposable income to purchase one.

This is the same reason that DDI wasn't the boon for me that it was for many gamers. I could pack my old laptop to my FLGS to play 4E, but the shop doesn't have wireless internet so DDI was not as useful to me as the rulebooks.

For the record, I'm not a Luddite I just don't have as much money to feed my gaming habit as I'd like.

 

[Arlough]

I would like to add that I would be glad to pay for a Kindle edition of the books with the material formatted to fit nicely on that screen and proper indexing. The PDFs don't really work, as they don't word wrap and the tables don't seem to fit the screen well.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Electronic form is massively important.

We dont want books any more. We use ipads and to be able to look things up on them is a far better option than lugging books around. Frankly, its PDF or its nothing.

Speak for yourself. I, for one, am not part of your 'we'.

 

[slobster]

I don't even play Pathfinder, mostly because I've never found a group interested in playing it. But I own the core book, the advanced player's guide, and 2 or 3 other expansion books.

Why? Because they were available in .pdf, and I like perusing them to get some ideas for my own homebrewing. I never would have bought them if they were only offered in physical format.

Conversely I've played in/ GMed for several 4E campaigns and I've never owned one of the books, because I couldn't buy them digitally. Whenever I needed to use a book I borrowed it from my roommate, but mostly I went by memory. Now 4E makes that particularly easy thanks to player's managing their item wishlists and monster creation being so breezy, but the point remains.

I played the Dresden RPG enough that I felt I wanted the books, so I bought them in both .pdf and physical hardback (the tipping point there was that the books are so interesting just to read, which is not really the point of this thread).

So put me firmly in the .pdf camp.

 

[Lord Mhoram]

I voted buy - but that is only if they do the e-book for cheap. Say 40 bucks for the three hardcovers (if they go that route) the e-book are 5 bucks or less, in addition.

Free is better.

 

[SeRiAlExPeRiMeNtS]

I use my iPad to play/dm so not only I will buy the ebook intead of the hardcover but also I will probably not buy the books if they are papper only.

 

[SeRiAlExPeRiMeNtS]

Electronic form is massively important.

We dont want books any more. We use ipads and to be able to look things up on them is a far better option than lugging books around. Frankly, its PDF or its nothing.

To me is the same, rpg books are better in electronic format.

 

[Arlough]

Speak for yourself. I, for one, am not part of your 'we'.

Allow me to rephrase for our colleague.

Electronic form is massively important.

Many of us don't want books any more. Many of us use digital devices, and for that group, the ability to look things up on using these devices is a far preferable over lugging books around.

Last thing we need with all the edition wars is a format war.