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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 7724437" data-attributes="member: 1">Many people have been asking for official D&D PDFs, and WotC has been addressing the need for electronic reference materials at the table in various ways. According to <a href="http://mashable.com/2017/09/21/dungeons-and-dragons-reader-app-details/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-tech-link%23sd613jsnjlqd#4.kxSkhsEmqd" target="_blank">Mashable</a>, WotC is releasing a D&D Reader App this fall. It's not a PDF, but it's basically a D&D-specific Kindle-esque app for iOS and Android. Mashable reports that [HQ]"Each book is broken up into different sections. So with, say, the Player's Handbook, you can tap on little thumbnails in your library to check out the introduction, a step-by-step guide to character creation, a rundown of races, individual sections for each character class, equipment, and all the other pieces that, together, form the D&D Player's Handbook."[/HQ][PRBREAK][/PRBREAK][ATTACH=full]111290[/ATTACH] It's possible they are just referring to D&D Beyond (some of the details below correspond very closely with that), but it may be that a separate D&D Reader is in the pipeline.UPDATE -- EN World member TDarien asked Adam Rosenburg (the author of the article) whether this was different to D&D Beyond, who replied [HQ]"Yup. Beyond is more activity-oriented, so it can handle stuff like dice rolls. Reader is basically Kindle, with good, clear chapter divides."[/HQ] UPDATE 2 -- EN World member kenmarable has spotted that Polygon <a href="https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/21/16345010/d-and-d-e-reader-app" target="_blank">also has an article about this</a>. It is a separate app called D&D Reader - not D&D Beyond - being made by Dialect, the company which does Dragon+ for WotC. They tried a beta version, although it wasn't complete at the time.Other items from the report include:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You can favourite specific pages.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Some of it is free, and the rparts of books are paywalled. [HQ]"If, for example, you'll only ever care about rolling a bard, you can just buy that. Prices for individual sections are $3 or $5 (depending on what you buy) and the three full rulebooks — Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master's Guide — are $30 apiece for everything."[/HQ]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If you buy parts of a book then buy the full thing, the cost is pro-rated.The free sections include [HQ]"character creation, basic classes, gear, ability scores, combat, spellcasting, and all the other sort of ground-level features that everyone needs to understand in order to play."[/HQ]</li> </ul> [FONT=&amp]Save[/FONT][FONT=&amp]Save[/FONT] [FONT=&amp]Save[/FONT][FONT=&amp]Save[/FONT] [FONT=&quot]Save[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Save[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Save[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Save[/FONT]</blockquote>

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