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If you have a D&D Beyond account you can access a promotional Spelljammer supplement for free. Spelljammer Academy is a series of four adventures -- the first, available now, is called Orientation, and will be followed later by Trial by Fire, Realmspace Sortie!, and Behold....H'Catha.

Fall in cadets! It's time for your introduction to Wildspace! Spelljammer Academy is a series of four adventures that will prepare you for your journeys into space, and it's available to you at no cost with your D&D Beyond account. In the first adventure, you’ll undergo your orientation at the Spelljammer Academy, where you'll learn whether you have what it takes to traverse the deadly expanse of the cosmos. Over time, subsequent adventures in Spelljammer Academy will drop. Unlock one adventure in the series and you'll automatically receive the others upon their release.

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[Parmandur]

I don't mean to derail this thread (more), but how do I do that? To be clear: I know how to save web pages, and I'm aware that the phone app lets me download content for offline access in the app, but from your response I'm wondering if there is some sort of offline viewer for the website content that I've somehow missed.

You hit "Print" in your browser and "Print as PDF."

They do expect people to Print it, that's why there are handouts.

 

[bedir than]

I don't mean to derail this thread (more), but how do I do that? To be clear: I know how to save web pages, and I'm aware that the phone app lets me download content for offline access in the app, but from your response I'm wondering if there is some sort of offline viewer for the website content that I've somehow missed.

I use the phone app offline as my preferred method, because I have all the modern conveniences of the web that way.

Plus my phone has better resolution than my printer

 

[darjr]

Perfect place for a TARDIS to pop up at.

Oh my!

Swipe!

 

[GMforPowergamers]

You hit "Print" in your browser and "Print as PDF."

They do expect people to Print it, that's why there are handouts.

that is a crummy way to do it... you end up with stat blocks cut in the middle from page to page, the lay out is NOT print friendly. If they expected people to print it you think it would be formated for it... infact in the vecna adventure I tried it with it almost seemed like they went out of there way to make it printer NOT friendly

 

[Parmandur]

that is a crummy way to do it... you end up with stat blocks cut in the middle from page to page, the lay out is NOT print friendly. If they expected people to print it you think it would be formated for it... infact in the vecna adventure I tried it with it almost seemed like they went out of there way to make it printer NOT friendly

If they didn't expect people to print the handouts, they wouldn't have them as handouts.

Maybe not ideal, but PDFs are kind of crummy anyways.

 

[Micah Sweet]

If they didn't expect people to print the handouts, they wouldn't have them as handouts.

Maybe not ideal, but PDFs are kind of crummy anyways.

Pdfs copy the book electronically. That is what I want.

 

[Parmandur]

Pdfs copy the book electronically. That is what I want.

So does Beyond, but formatted for screens rather than print.

 

[Parmandur]

For what it's worth, I don't use Beyond, amd I don't want PDFs, but if I wanted digital copies Beyond would be preferable for normal usage.

 

[Echohawk]

You hit "Print" in your browser and "Print as PDF."

I tried this. It doesn't give me very good results. The PDF ends up with navigation artifacts (the green up arrow) on every page, occasionally blocking the text, the background colour for the monster blocks appears only behind some of the block, and there are lots of orphaned headings. It's better than nothing, sure, but then I'd rather just save a local copy of the webpage.

I use the phone app offline as my preferred method, because I have all the modern conveniences of the web that way.

I use the Beyond phone app all the time, but unless I'm missing something, the app search tool is incomplete. If I'd like to search for, say, any barghest encounters in published adventures, I can do that on the website, provided I'm online. If I do that search in the app, the barghest encounter in Tales from the Yawning Portal doesn't show up. I'd really like to be able to thoroughly search all of the D&D Beyond content I've purchased even if I'm not online. Right now I can't do that unless I painstakingly save a local copy of every chapter of every book.

I'm not trying to be contrary here. I greatly appreciate the free content. I would appreciate the free content even more if there was an easier way for me to search it, and I'm genuinely interested if anyone has a better method for doing that than I do.

 

[Micah Sweet]

So does Beyond, but formatted for screens rather than print.

A reformat is not copying the book electronically, it's copying the content electronically.