D&D 5E So what's the scoop on D&D in PDF Format?
R_J_K75
Legend
Complimentary is certainly nice but I don't expect them, I'm willing to pay a small fee for one though. Green Ronin offers a pdf if you pre-order a book for an extra $5 it is I believe. I don't foresee ever playing 5E again let alone subscribing to D&DB so what WotC does in the future has no effect on me. It would have been nice if they offered 5E pdfs though. Id suspect that by the time 6E comes pdfs and D&DB will be replaced by more modern technologies.
R_J_K75
Legend
This reminds me of something. I remember around 2000 or 2001 WotC started selling pdfs. In an effort to expand their library of what they could offer they put out an open call asking people to send them their copies of D&D books with the caveat that they would be taken apart, scanned and would not be returned. LMAO, who would do that?
ezo
I cast invisibility
LOL, I vaguely remember something like that, too.
I've kept all the physical pages and had them rebound at Staples.
To be honest, I don't think the layout of 5e it's really good for PDF. PDF are good to have a digital copy of the book of the game, Beyond is good to have a copy of the content of those book. 4e had perfect pdf layout, IMHO. And the fact that they were made from the source, no scanning involved, they are the cleanest PDF D&D ever had
I think that, if the content was 100% equals, and Beyond wasn't D&D as a service but a buy once have forever, would be a lot more loved. If you could have, say, CD-ROM like old times or DRM free installer, that you own and nobody can charge you anymore or change from behind without your consent, a lot of people would be more happy.
I think that, if the content was 100% equals, and Beyond wasn't D&D as a service but a buy once have forever, would be a lot more loved. If you could have, say, CD-ROM like old times or DRM free installer, that you own and nobody can charge you anymore or change from behind without your consent, a lot of people would be more happy.
mach1.9pants
Hero
Heaps. That's where most of the classic DnD PDFs that are available are from
This was for their digital releases (PDFs) of older editions that are now available through DTRPG-DMsGuild. Did that really happen in 2000/1? It seems like it was more recent, but time keeps on slippin'...
As for the OP, the DnDB questions seemed odd to me, because there's a lot of stuff available for free on DnDB and you can answer a lot of the questions by looking at it there. You can make a free account and look yourself, you don't have to ask your friend that has a DnDB account! But no, it's not the exact same format as the books.
As far as PDFs go, no, WotC does not seem to be a fan of selling PDFs of their current editions DESPITE the fact that you can find them easily online.
As far as PDFs go, no, WotC does not seem to be a fan of selling PDFs of their current editions DESPITE the fact that you can find them easily online.
Wotc may not think it is worth it to produce PDFs for their books, but there are customers like me who may have bought their products if they did.
All my earlier books were on DnD beyond, but after they suddenly removed parts of older books that I owned without any way for me to access that content, I became very weary of using that service. After the OGL debacle I stopped using beyond altogether, and just never went back. But if they started giving out PDFs with their beyond purchases it might convince me to start using it again.
Now I buy PDFs of many other systems that I am interested in trying. Because I know that as long as I store them securely then I will always have access to that content
All my earlier books were on DnD beyond, but after they suddenly removed parts of older books that I owned without any way for me to access that content, I became very weary of using that service. After the OGL debacle I stopped using beyond altogether, and just never went back. But if they started giving out PDFs with their beyond purchases it might convince me to start using it again.
Now I buy PDFs of many other systems that I am interested in trying. Because I know that as long as I store them securely then I will always have access to that content
mamba
Legend
what content did they remove?
Are you talking about minor things like changing the Hadozee backstory or swapping out AI art in Bigby’s, or did they actually remove some pages or a chapter?
I’d be surprised by the latter
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