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<blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 7724481" data-attributes="member: 40359">Looking around some more, <a href="https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/21/16345010/d-and-d-e-reader-app" target="_blank">Polygon has a slightly better article on it</a>, with details including it being built by Dialect that does Dragon+ and that the Polygon author tried a (buggy) beta.So, you get:- You can swipe to turn pages (so actually doesn't flow like Kindle)- You can bookmark stuffWhereas with D&amp;D Beyond and Fantasy Grounds, for the same exact price you get:- Character builders- Community homebrewed content (not familiar with FG, but DDB handles monsters, spells, and magic items with more on the way)- FG is a full VTT with all maps fog of war'ed and NPCs/Monsters tokened- DDB has filterable and advanced searches- FG can be used on any desktop or laptop- DDB can be used on any device with a web browser (!)- All web browsers can handle their own bookmarking- etc.So really, for apparently the same price you can get far fewer features that you can only use on mobile devices but at least you can swipe to turn pages??? I can really only see this working because it takes very little effort from Dialect to make this, so they need very few sales to be profitable. But unless there's some really amazing features they are going to add to their Beta before &quot;sometime this Fall&quot;, I can't see this getting much more than very few sales. If you are considering this because you want to spend money on an electronic version of the books (and don't want a VTT), spend the same amount at DDB and get far more for your money.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kenmarable, post: 7724481, member: 40359"] Looking around some more, [url=https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/21/16345010/d-and-d-e-reader-app]Polygon has a slightly better article on it[/url], with details including it being built by Dialect that does Dragon+ and that the Polygon author tried a (buggy) beta. So, you get: - You can swipe to turn pages (so actually doesn't flow like Kindle) - You can bookmark stuff Whereas with D&D Beyond and Fantasy Grounds, for the same exact price you get: - Character builders - Community homebrewed content (not familiar with FG, but DDB handles monsters, spells, and magic items with more on the way) - FG is a full VTT with all maps fog of war'ed and NPCs/Monsters tokened - DDB has filterable and advanced searches - FG can be used on any desktop or laptop - DDB can be used on any device with a web browser (!) - All web browsers can handle their own bookmarking - etc. So really, for apparently the same price you can get far fewer features that you can only use on mobile devices but at least you can swipe to turn pages??? I can really only see this working because it takes very little effort from Dialect to make this, so they need very few sales to be profitable. But unless there's some really amazing features they are going to add to their Beta before "sometime this Fall", I can't see this getting much more than very few sales. If you are considering this because you want to spend money on an electronic version of the books (and don't want a VTT), spend the same amount at DDB and get far more for your money. [/QUOTE]

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