LordEntrails
Hero
Digital would be fine. It's how I own 5E. Subscription would not.
A screen offers unlimited other distractions - tweets, TikTok, FB, and so on. It’s easy to switch from the digital character sheet to something completely unrelated. Ime, flipping through a PHB is usually only done to reference a rule, or look up a spell, then it gets put down and back to the game. I don’t think I’ve ever seen or had anyone browse their rulebook during a game.Out of curiosity, what, for you, is the difference between the players' eyes glued to a screen versus flipping through a book?
They're going to be on their phones anyway, let's face it.A screen offers unlimited other distractions - tweets, TikTok, FB, and so on. It’s easy to switch from the digital character sheet to something completely unrelated. Ime, flipping through a PHB is usually only done to reference a rule, or look up a spell, then it gets put down and back to the game. I don’t think I’ve ever seen or had anyone browse their rulebook during a game.