DI and freedom from the revision cycle

[1Mac]

Thanks for merging the threads!

Simply put, requiring a computer to get supplemental materials seems... suboptimal to me.

Maybe this is a generational thing. The internet is my newspaper, my weather source, my yellow pages, my phonebook, my shopping guide, my storefront, my atlas, my mapbook, my encyclopedia, and so much more. Yesterday I needed to measure something, and realizing that I did not have a 12" ruler, I searched for a PDF and printed one off. So to me there is nothing sub-optimal about requiring a computer to access supplements.

Forcing the DM to lug around pounds of dead-tree material for access to supplemental rules, now that seems sub-optimal.

 

[Obergnom]

Thanks for merging the threads!

Maybe this is a generational thing. The internet is my newspaper, my weather source, my yellow pages, my phonebook, my shopping guide, my storefront, my atlas, my mapbook, my encyclopedia, and so much more. Yesterday I needed to measure something, and realizing that I did not have a 12" ruler, I searched for a PDF and printed one off. So to me there is nothing sub-optimal about requiring a computer to access supplements.

Forcing the DM to lug around pounds of dead-tree material for access to supplemental rules, now that seems sub-optimal.

Same here...

 

[Storm Raven]

That means in just 3 years after 3.5E was released, 4E was in the works! How long do you think 5E will be in the works once 4E comes out? Think about it, people. Are you really going to jump another edition in 5 years again?

OMG! If I buy 4e in 2008 I can only enjoy the books until 2013!

 

[ST]

Obviously they'll keep selling crunch-focused books throughout 4e. Those make good money.

The benefit of subscription is that you'll (a) have softcopy access to any books you've bought, and (b) all the fluff-related articles and material that some people want, but don't sell well enough to make it into hardcopy books.

 

[Keefe the Thief]

This is a sad day for D&D. All the D&D fans that can't see past this due to their fan-deluded high with D&D are going to find out all too late about all of this.

It feels good, doesn´t it, to be the only one who sees the truth.

 

[olshanski]

to me there is nothing sub-optimal about requiring a computer to access supplements.

Forcing the DM to lug around pounds of dead-tree material for access to supplemental rules, now that seems sub-optimal.

Nothing like taking a computer to read in bed... or in the bathtub, or on the bus, or on a plane.

Once computers are as handy as books, then I'll switch. For now, I use the computer for research, weather, directions, and entertainment.

 

[Obergnom]

Nothing like taking a computer to read in bed... or in the bathtub, or on the bus, or on a plane.

Once computers are as handy as books, then I'll switch. For now, I use the computer for research, weather, directions, and entertainment.

Nothing wrong with that... as 1Mac said, might be a generations thing or whatever... I do close to all my prep work for my D&D campaigns on the computer.

 

[Umbran]

Maybe this is a generational thing. The internet is my newspaper, my weather source, my yellow pages, my phonebook, my shopping guide, my storefront, my atlas, my mapbook, my encyclopedia, and so much more.

Yeah, but check this out - all those things are typically short reference tasks. You take about one minute to check the weather forecast, and move on.

Computers are great for the fast fact check. They aren't so hot for the longer reading and design tasks, IMHO.

Forcing the DM to lug around pounds of dead-tree material for access to supplemental rules, now that seems sub-optimal.

I think forcing the matter either direction is sub-optimal. You can go ahead and use your machines for whatever you like - but remove my dead tree editions, and I have an issue with your plan.

 

[1Mac]

I think forcing the matter either direction is sub-optimal. You can go ahead and use your machines for whatever you like - but remove my dead tree editions, and I have an issue with your plan.

I think we will find that the two are mutually exclusive, though. See my "less utopian" post.

 

[Obergnom]

well, we will get pdf versions with every book we will buy. And we will get an addition to the char gen. And wizards said again and again books will remain important... seems to me, everyone will be quite happy...