D&D (2024) Digital Only Edition

[Lanefan]

The real question, I think, is if the rest of the world was bizarrely okay with only ever being able to rent their D&D on devices, and you could basically only find games by accepting that system, would you cave?

No. I already have my own system anyway and am only interested in looking at the new edition(s) for ideas to mine and-or to see how much of a mess they've made of it. If I can't look at the new editions in book form (I pick up the core three for each new edition even though I don't intend to run or play it) it's no real skin off my nose.

 

[Li Shenron]

Not even if it was a free subscription.

 

[Li Shenron]

The real question, I think, is if the rest of the world was bizarrely okay with only ever being able to rent their D&D on devices, and you could basically only find games by accepting that system, would you cave?

No. There's plenty of other games worth playing and hobbies worth having, I'd move on to something else (or simply keep playing older editions, of course).

 

[CleverNickName]

No.

Give me hybrid (hardcopy AND digital) or watch me walk away.

 

[John R Davis]

Crikey no
I need to be around the table with some physical junk.
Access to the pdf is good for prep

 

[wedgeski]

As long as a subscription was value for money, I would be happy to do it.

 

[delericho]

Digital-only is fine as long as that means PDFs. Subscription is not.

Regarding PDFs being key - I run my game at work, and most game-related sites are blocked on the corporate network. Similarly, I can't justify installing custom software onto a work PC for that game. But I can justify loading a handful of PDF files, so that's fine. The upshot is that while there are better digital formats and better ways to deliver that material, they are useless to me. It's PDF or nothing.

 

[GreyLord]

Hypothetical: the perfect edition of D&D for you comes out, but is only available in a subscription based, digital only format (you can't print out PDFs and you even use a digital device for your character sheet). Assuming again that it is otherwise everything you want in an edition of D&D, and assuming the price isn't prohibitive for you, would you be in?

That would not be the perfect edition of D&D for me, just from that description alone.

 

[Tallifer]

Digital, yes; subscription only, no.

 

[Hussar]

Heh. Considering this is how I've played D&D for the past 20 years? Yeah, no worries. Give me an actually D&D dedicated VTT with all the bells and whistles that will track most of the mechanics for me at let me play? Would buy it in a second. I mean, good grief, the last physical product I bought for D&D was the core 3 and that's almost ten years ago. Wouldn't miss print going away for a moment.