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<blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 7724617" data-attributes="member: 40359">We don't know the arrangement between Dialect and WotC, but this doesn't seem like a giant money sink (and if it's anything like their other projects recently, largely funded by the 3rd party - not WotC). Of course, we can't tell until we see the app, but from seeing Dragon+ and from what has been described about D&amp;D Reader, it sounds relatively cheap to produce. (And I say this as a full time web programmer who has worked some in mobile.) This isn't the massive efforts of hundreds or even thousands of hours of labor something like D&amp;D Beyond or Fantasy Grounds takes in converting the content. It sounds like primarily an update to the same software they have running Dragon+ (and considering they have many other clients than WotC, it might be an app that largely already exists), and the content pretty much as locked down PDFs. So I don't see this coming at the expense of really anything. Knowing what's likely going on &quot;under the hood&quot; on something like this, I can assure you that not doing this would be very far from balancing out the novel lines. I wish the novels were still going strong, too, but that's an entirely separate issue from this. This looks to be very minimal work from WotC, and if Dialect is even picking up the majority of the cost and effort, then it's virtually no effort from WotC at all!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kenmarable, post: 7724617, member: 40359"] We don't know the arrangement between Dialect and WotC, but this doesn't seem like a giant money sink (and if it's anything like their other projects recently, largely funded by the 3rd party - not WotC). Of course, we can't tell until we see the app, but from seeing Dragon+ and from what has been described about D&D Reader, it sounds relatively cheap to produce. (And I say this as a full time web programmer who has worked some in mobile.) This isn't the massive efforts of hundreds or even thousands of hours of labor something like D&D Beyond or Fantasy Grounds takes in converting the content. It sounds like primarily an update to the same software they have running Dragon+ (and considering they have many other clients than WotC, it might be an app that largely already exists), and the content pretty much as locked down PDFs. So I don't see this coming at the expense of really anything. Knowing what's likely going on "under the hood" on something like this, I can assure you that not doing this would be very far from balancing out the novel lines. I wish the novels were still going strong, too, but that's an entirely separate issue from this. This looks to be very minimal work from WotC, and if Dialect is even picking up the majority of the cost and effort, then it's virtually no effort from WotC at all! [/QUOTE]

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