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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rknop" data-source="post: 7686967" data-attributes="member: 20176">...and this is why I'm not taking D&D/5e seriously, nor am likely to in the near future.I'm not at all interested in any kind of DRM-encumbered PDF or any kind of custom ap.  That sort of thing is not at all future proof.  I remember when DriveThruRPG first opened, they announced they'd be using some sort of Adobe DRM, with all the arguments that it would be around for a long time, Adobe was safe, etc.  Well, it was only a few years when Adobe discontinued that DRM (including the servers that supported it).  Luckily for people who'd been suckered into buying stuff from DriveThruRPG before they stopped selling exclusively DRM-encumbered products, DriveThruRPG was still around and could offer them updated downloads that would still work.  If it weren't for that, they'd have been stuck.  (Well, at least, unless they were willing to break stupid laws and download software to strip the DRM themselves.)A custom ap... if you think that sounds like a good idea, think about an eBook that you had on your Amiga, or on your Apple II, running a custom ap.  How much use would that be of you today?  If you're only interested in having the RPG books you buy available to you for the next few years, sure, go with that.  Or, go with anything that requires you to check in with a server on the net.If, on the other hand, you still want to be able to read your RPG books in the future the way you can still read your 1e AD&D books now (even without going to DnDClassics), then anything encumbered with DRM or with a custom ap is a bad idea.  You need the most generic format out there.  PDF seems to be pretty robust, as it's an openly defined format.  (There was a time when the Gutenberg project insistend on ASCII, as it seemed to be the most future proof.  PDF has been so widely implemented by so many different readers now that I suspect it's also relatively future-proof,as far as any digital format can be.)Digital Restrictions Management is absolutely individual-hostile.  If I can at all avoid it, I will not purchase anything that uses it.  It's a bad idea.</blockquote>

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