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I love this attitude.

So, no amazement here.

Yes... buy the physical books, or buy a non-DRMed ebook in an openly defined and widely supported format (such as PDF). If you buy something DRMed, or in a format that requires a proprietary app, then, even if "they'd never do that", your continued ability to legally read the book you bought...

...and if you still have Palm devices around to run those apps, then you are an outlier. Nope. Devices don't last that long. They die. Their batteries go to hell. It's not worth keeping them going. Think about what you're suggesting here. Keep around a whole bunch of old devices so that...

How much software on disks that you purchased 20 years ago can you still use? Chances are the software came on 3.5" floppies. (Well, 25 years ago.) Many computers don't even have that format any more. Lots of people have word processing documents from ages past that they can't open because...

OK, then answer this question. Suppose a hardcover physical book only came in a version chained to a specific chair with a specific desk lamp. You were only allowed to read the book while sitting in THAT chair and using THAT lamp. What would you want to DO with a hardcover that didn't come so...

Seriously? Read them on my Linux machine, to start. Use the reader I want to use. Still be able to read them even when the app is no longer supported and doesn't run on newer versions of Android. Not be stuck in a walled-garden proprietary ecosystem.

I agree that things I do not want have a right to exist. And that it's no skin off my teeth if it does exist. My problem is the suggestion that this product at all addresses the problem of a lack of PDFs available for 5e. A proprietary format that runs on a proprietary ap that you have get...

This offering is ridiculous, and is nothing like a PDF. A PDF you can use on whatever device you want, using whatever reader you want. Also, to those who say everybody who wants a PDF has it: not me. In fact, the lack of legal (and, ideally, reasonably priced) PDFs is the reason I haven't...

The answer to "why will this take 9 months to produce" suggests that 9 months is a long time. I might have asked "will will this take only 9 months to produce?".

Speaking as an American, I wouldn't believe the anecdotes. There's no way we actually exist.

I do not believe the "always". This was true until the 4e/Pathfinder years, but it hasn't always been true since then. For a couple of years in there, Pathfinder was the top-selling RPG. There will have been transition periods, at the end when 4e was on its way down and Pathfinder was on its...

Yeah, shelf space at one or two FLGSes does not count as "rumors of money problems". It means nothing. The FLGSes I've been to have lots of shelf space for Paizo. That also means nothing. All of this is rampant speculation. Pay no attention to it. What we know is that the first run of...

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." Probably the #1 quote. I tend to bring out quotes from the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, but people don't seem to recognize them all that often. (It's even worse in the classes I teach. Kids these...

Whats kind of funny to me is that I played pretty much only AD&D/1e from 1978 to 1997. There was a wee bit of 2nd edition in there (I never had any of the books), and a wee bit of first edition Gamma World and Top Secret, but that was about it. So, you'd think that AD&D/1e would be my answer...

6.5 hours is what Erik Mona told us before the Friday Special. The dealer's room opened at 9AM (if memory serves; may have been 10AM). That more or less matches with a 4PM sell-out.

The special edition of Starfinder was sold out in less than hours. In fact, it may have been sold out before the dealer room opened. I know somebody who wanted to get it, and was there right as the dealer room opened... but there were none left. The VIG folks who had early access to the...

They did want to use some things from Golarion -- Iomedae, Hellknights, Absalom (after which the stationed is named), the starstone, the planets from Distant Worlds, memories of the Pathfinder Society after which the Starfinder Society patterned itself, etc. All of these things would make much...

Here's the thing about the Gap -- it's 300 years ago. The Pact Worlds have moved on. If you want to ignore it, you can. I like there being a Big Cool Unexplained Mystery in the setting. What happened to Aroden? Nobody knows. And, very little of the followup Pathfinder material dealt with...

I agree that the Starfinder art is very evocative. I also like the Planescape call out above. Di Terlizzi's style fit very well with the feel of the Planescape setting, and helped give the setting its own distinctive flavor.