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<blockquote data-quote="Panda-s1" data-source="post: 7928093" data-attributes="member: 59554"><p>so basically if any format has bad organization it's bad?</p><p></p><p>can you give me an example of this? in my experience software will do math for you, but also show you the underlying math.</p><p></p><p>also, if players only ever play using the software does it really matter?</p><p></p><p>idk I managed to play 3.5 only using the SRD. I did eventually get a book, but I think 1) you put too much faith into written explanations, not everyone learns best that. I certainly don't, I learn better through irl example. 2) I don't think I know a lot of people who actually read rulebooks from beginning to end.*</p><p></p><p>again, I don't see why this is exclusive to digital tools. if you honestly believe owning and reading physical books tends towards people accurately understanding rules then you're sorely mistaken. critical success/fail on skill checks is a great example of this, a lot of people have assumed that's RAW since 3rd edition first came out, and that very much includes people who own every 3.x d&d book printed.</p><p></p><p>okay look, plenty of people have been playing 5e for over five years now, why is the sudden inclusion of an initiative tracker (a <em>digital </em>initiative tracker) suddenly means it's a necessity to play d&d and without it people won't actually learn the rules?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>uh, pretty sure War Thunder is still very active, unless I'm not understanding what you're saying here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Panda-s1, post: 7928093, member: 59554"] so basically if any format has bad organization it's bad? can you give me an example of this? in my experience software will do math for you, but also show you the underlying math. also, if players only ever play using the software does it really matter? idk I managed to play 3.5 only using the SRD. I did eventually get a book, but I think 1) you put too much faith into written explanations, not everyone learns best that. I certainly don't, I learn better through irl example. 2) I don't think I know a lot of people who actually read rulebooks from beginning to end.* again, I don't see why this is exclusive to digital tools. if you honestly believe owning and reading physical books tends towards people accurately understanding rules then you're sorely mistaken. critical success/fail on skill checks is a great example of this, a lot of people have assumed that's RAW since 3rd edition first came out, and that very much includes people who own every 3.x d&d book printed. okay look, plenty of people have been playing 5e for over five years now, why is the sudden inclusion of an initiative tracker (a [I]digital [/I]initiative tracker) suddenly means it's a necessity to play d&d and without it people won't actually learn the rules? uh, pretty sure War Thunder is still very active, unless I'm not understanding what you're saying here. [/QUOTE]
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