Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Arcane Power: How long before the pirated copy appears
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="baphomet68" data-source="post: 4770238" data-attributes="member: 83462"><p>Well, I guess that is a matter of opinion. If its about a race to get the preorders to customers before the Pirates get a PDF, then O.K. Contrasted to the number of people that learned as I did how easy it is to make our own PDF (for personal use), and spiral bind the book afterwards, I think they lose out. I doubt I will ever bother to purchase both a PDF and a book again; all the delay accomplished with me was slowing my purchase by a few days, waiting for someone I know to let me spend a few hours with it to read over & decide if I wanted it. </p><p> I think that there are a lot of people like me who will always want the physical books, for character design, casual reading, etc., but who use laptops exclusively for actual gaming, and so will alw3ays want electronic media too. It stings that WOTC has yanked PDF's without a replacement in place. </p><p> But as I read over this string, it seems that a number of us (like, me for instance) are being led by our feelings, and a lot of noses are out of joint. And it clearly goes straight to the top - it all began with WOTC's nose out of joint re<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue :P" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />iracy.</p><p></p><p> [response to point 2, "tomorrow's DDI update" - yes, and a day or two later the new April patch will appear for the Cracked character builder, and those damn Pirates will be neck and neck with us again!]<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="baphomet68, post: 4770238, member: 83462"] Well, I guess that is a matter of opinion. If its about a race to get the preorders to customers before the Pirates get a PDF, then O.K. Contrasted to the number of people that learned as I did how easy it is to make our own PDF (for personal use), and spiral bind the book afterwards, I think they lose out. I doubt I will ever bother to purchase both a PDF and a book again; all the delay accomplished with me was slowing my purchase by a few days, waiting for someone I know to let me spend a few hours with it to read over & decide if I wanted it. I think that there are a lot of people like me who will always want the physical books, for character design, casual reading, etc., but who use laptops exclusively for actual gaming, and so will alw3ays want electronic media too. It stings that WOTC has yanked PDF's without a replacement in place. But as I read over this string, it seems that a number of us (like, me for instance) are being led by our feelings, and a lot of noses are out of joint. And it clearly goes straight to the top - it all began with WOTC's nose out of joint re:Piracy. [response to point 2, "tomorrow's DDI update" - yes, and a day or two later the new April patch will appear for the Cracked character builder, and those damn Pirates will be neck and neck with us again!]:devil: [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Arcane Power: How long before the pirated copy appears
Top